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Vista Sucks Big Time
By R. Adkins



Vista, the much hyped up, latest, Bill Gates offering to the world, sucks
big time in my opinion.

My daughter bought a new laptop last week. Once she got it home, she could
not wait to show me this laptop with a gig of ram, 85 gig hard drive, and
Vista Home Premium as the operating system. She was kind enough to let me
take a look at the new laptop and Vista.

When I booted the laptop, I sat watching the screen. It had some great
graphics on the boot up screen, but it became quite apparent that this
operating system took a lot more time, than Windows XP, to boot. I sat
waiting; to me it seemed a long time, but it finally booted and the laptop
was up and running,

Personally, I run some pretty old computers in my house; a P2 450 with 128
megs of ram and a P3 800 with 384 megs of ram, so I was expecting great
things when this laptop had a gig installed. To tell the truth, I was
disappointed in the speed of the machine, but then I realized this thing
uses half the ram just to run the operating system. To me, that seemed to be
an incredible amount of ram needed. It made me wonder what it will use when
it has been installed for six months and the registry gets bloated.

One of the things that annoyed me right away were the pop-ups that ask if
you want to do this or that. The permission thing drove me nuts after a few
minutes, and if I owned the computer, it would be the first thing that I
would turn off.

Vista's eye candy looks great; the start menu is close enough to XP's that I
don't think it would confuse many Windows XP users, but the way the system
does things has changed. As my daughter did not have too much installed on
the machine, there was not much I could do with it. I checked out the office
program but it is more than I would ever need.

In the stores today, curious to see the price, I walked over to the software
department. Having seen the prices on the different Vista boxes, I would not
consider buying it. Here again is where Vista sucks. It will suck the money
right out of your wallet!

If you are running XP, I personally cannot see anything on Home Premium that
would warrant an upgrade. My advice is stick with XP until you really do
need a new computer. Apparently I am not alone in my thinking as today's
reports say that retailers have sold only half the amount of shrink-wrapped
Vistas to date as they did when Windows XP was launched. Also, Microsoft has
dialed back expectations on profits because of the lack of sales. Vista
sucked the share price down as well.

Will I upgrade to Vista? Nope, I will upgrade to PCLinuxOS 2007 being
released around the end of this month. It is coming with 3d (yes I know
Vista has that), it has translucency (yes I know Vista has that), it has
beautiful eye candy (yes I know Vista has that) and it also comes with a
complete Graphical User Interface (GUI). In other words, you don't need to
use a command line tool, (yes, I know, Vista does that as well) and it is
FREE! (I know, Vista does not do that.)

Definition of free? Free to download, free to share, free to modify, free to
install on as many computers as you need it to be installed on, free to give
to your friends and family! Yes, I know Vista does not do THAT! I always did
say PCLinuxOS was better than Windows - it does more than Vista!
 
You really need to get out - Just FYI

You really need to get out - Just FYI

You really are tied to the computer. All you do is bash Vista. Why not put
an application in at Taco-Bell. Think outside the BUN.

Just FYI


"teyebeareeus" <teyebeareeus@vista.in> wrote in message
news:4737845f$3@newsgate.x-privat.org...
> http://mag.mypclinuxos.com/html/Issues/200704/page10.html
>
> Vista Sucks Big Time
> By R. Adkins
>
>
>
> Vista, the much hyped up, latest, Bill Gates offering to the world, sucks
> big time in my opinion.
>
> My daughter bought a new laptop last week. Once she got it home, she could
> not wait to show me this laptop with a gig of ram, 85 gig hard drive, and
> Vista Home Premium as the operating system. She was kind enough to let me
> take a look at the new laptop and Vista.
>
> When I booted the laptop, I sat watching the screen. It had some great
> graphics on the boot up screen, but it became quite apparent that this
> operating system took a lot more time, than Windows XP, to boot. I sat
> waiting; to me it seemed a long time, but it finally booted and the laptop
> was up and running,
>
> Personally, I run some pretty old computers in my house; a P2 450 with 128
> megs of ram and a P3 800 with 384 megs of ram, so I was expecting great
> things when this laptop had a gig installed. To tell the truth, I was
> disappointed in the speed of the machine, but then I realized this thing
> uses half the ram just to run the operating system. To me, that seemed to
> be an incredible amount of ram needed. It made me wonder what it will use
> when it has been installed for six months and the registry gets bloated.
>
> One of the things that annoyed me right away were the pop-ups that ask if
> you want to do this or that. The permission thing drove me nuts after a
> few minutes, and if I owned the computer, it would be the first thing that
> I would turn off.
>
> Vista's eye candy looks great; the start menu is close enough to XP's that
> I don't think it would confuse many Windows XP users, but the way the
> system does things has changed. As my daughter did not have too much
> installed on the machine, there was not much I could do with it. I checked
> out the office program but it is more than I would ever need.
>
> In the stores today, curious to see the price, I walked over to the
> software department. Having seen the prices on the different Vista boxes,
> I would not consider buying it. Here again is where Vista sucks. It will
> suck the money right out of your wallet!
>
> If you are running XP, I personally cannot see anything on Home Premium
> that would warrant an upgrade. My advice is stick with XP until you really
> do need a new computer. Apparently I am not alone in my thinking as
> today's reports say that retailers have sold only half the amount of
> shrink-wrapped Vistas to date as they did when Windows XP was launched.
> Also, Microsoft has dialed back expectations on profits because of the
> lack of sales. Vista sucked the share price down as well.
>
> Will I upgrade to Vista? Nope, I will upgrade to PCLinuxOS 2007 being
> released around the end of this month. It is coming with 3d (yes I know
> Vista has that), it has translucency (yes I know Vista has that), it has
> beautiful eye candy (yes I know Vista has that) and it also comes with a
> complete Graphical User Interface (GUI). In other words, you don't need to
> use a command line tool, (yes, I know, Vista does that as well) and it is
> FREE! (I know, Vista does not do that.)
>
> Definition of free? Free to download, free to share, free to modify, free
> to install on as many computers as you need it to be installed on, free to
> give to your friends and family! Yes, I know Vista does not do THAT! I
> always did say PCLinuxOS was better than Windows - it does more than
> Vista!
>
>
 
Re: Vista Sucks Big Time - By R. Adkins

You really are an idiot who obviously doesn't even own a real
computer..!!...If you knew anything you would know that xp was a lousy op
system that needed to and had to be so stuffed full of patches that it has
become a dog that still needs a vet to continually patch it up...Do you even
understand how ram works or is supposed to work ??
"teyebeareeus" <teyebeareeus@vista.in> wrote in message
news:4737845f$3@newsgate.x-privat.org...
> http://mag.mypclinuxos.com/html/Issues/200704/page10.html
>
> Vista Sucks Big Time
> By R. Adkins
>
>
>
> Vista, the much hyped up, latest, Bill Gates offering to the world, sucks
> big time in my opinion.
>
> My daughter bought a new laptop last week. Once she got it home, she could
> not wait to show me this laptop with a gig of ram, 85 gig hard drive, and
> Vista Home Premium as the operating system. She was kind enough to let me
> take a look at the new laptop and Vista.
>
> When I booted the laptop, I sat watching the screen. It had some great
> graphics on the boot up screen, but it became quite apparent that this
> operating system took a lot more time, than Windows XP, to boot. I sat
> waiting; to me it seemed a long time, but it finally booted and the laptop
> was up and running,
>
> Personally, I run some pretty old computers in my house; a P2 450 with 128
> megs of ram and a P3 800 with 384 megs of ram, so I was expecting great
> things when this laptop had a gig installed. To tell the truth, I was
> disappointed in the speed of the machine, but then I realized this thing
> uses half the ram just to run the operating system. To me, that seemed to
> be an incredible amount of ram needed. It made me wonder what it will use
> when it has been installed for six months and the registry gets bloated.
>
> One of the things that annoyed me right away were the pop-ups that ask if
> you want to do this or that. The permission thing drove me nuts after a
> few minutes, and if I owned the computer, it would be the first thing that
> I would turn off.
>
> Vista's eye candy looks great; the start menu is close enough to XP's that
> I don't think it would confuse many Windows XP users, but the way the
> system does things has changed. As my daughter did not have too much
> installed on the machine, there was not much I could do with it. I checked
> out the office program but it is more than I would ever need.
>
> In the stores today, curious to see the price, I walked over to the
> software department. Having seen the prices on the different Vista boxes,
> I would not consider buying it. Here again is where Vista sucks. It will
> suck the money right out of your wallet!
>
> If you are running XP, I personally cannot see anything on Home Premium
> that would warrant an upgrade. My advice is stick with XP until you really
> do need a new computer. Apparently I am not alone in my thinking as
> today's reports say that retailers have sold only half the amount of
> shrink-wrapped Vistas to date as they did when Windows XP was launched.
> Also, Microsoft has dialed back expectations on profits because of the
> lack of sales. Vista sucked the share price down as well.
>
> Will I upgrade to Vista? Nope, I will upgrade to PCLinuxOS 2007 being
> released around the end of this month. It is coming with 3d (yes I know
> Vista has that), it has translucency (yes I know Vista has that), it has
> beautiful eye candy (yes I know Vista has that) and it also comes with a
> complete Graphical User Interface (GUI). In other words, you don't need to
> use a command line tool, (yes, I know, Vista does that as well) and it is
> FREE! (I know, Vista does not do that.)
>
> Definition of free? Free to download, free to share, free to modify, free
> to install on as many computers as you need it to be installed on, free to
> give to your friends and family! Yes, I know Vista does not do THAT! I
> always did say PCLinuxOS was better than Windows - it does more than
> Vista!
>
>
 
Re: You really need to get out - Just FYI

Re: You really need to get out - Just FYI

Spanky deMonkey wrote:
> You really are tied to the computer.

Like an OEM license?

> All you do is bash Vista. Why not put
> an application in at Taco-Bell. Think outside the BUN.
>
> Just FYI
>
> "teyebeareeus" <teyebeareeus@vista.in> wrote in message
> news:4737845f$3@newsgate.x-privat.org...
>> http://mag.mypclinuxos.com/html/Issues/200704/page10.html
>>
>> Vista Sucks Big Time
>> By R. Adkins
>>
>> Vista, the much hyped up, latest, Bill Gates offering to the world, sucks
>> big time in my opinion.
>>
>> My daughter bought a new laptop last week. Once she got it home, she could
>> not wait to show me this laptop with a gig of ram, 85 gig hard drive, and
>> Vista Home Premium as the operating system. She was kind enough to let me
>> take a look at the new laptop and Vista.
>>
>> When I booted the laptop, I sat watching the screen. It had some great
>> graphics on the boot up screen, but it became quite apparent that this
>> operating system took a lot more time, than Windows XP, to boot. I sat
>> waiting; to me it seemed a long time, but it finally booted and the laptop
>> was up and running,
>>
>> Personally, I run some pretty old computers in my house; a P2 450 with 128
>> megs of ram and a P3 800 with 384 megs of ram, so I was expecting great
>> things when this laptop had a gig installed. To tell the truth, I was
>> disappointed in the speed of the machine, but then I realized this thing
>> uses half the ram just to run the operating system. To me, that seemed to
>> be an incredible amount of ram needed. It made me wonder what it will use
>> when it has been installed for six months and the registry gets bloated.
>>
>> One of the things that annoyed me right away were the pop-ups that ask if
>> you want to do this or that. The permission thing drove me nuts after a
>> few minutes, and if I owned the computer, it would be the first thing that
>> I would turn off.
>>
>> Vista's eye candy looks great; the start menu is close enough to XP's that
>> I don't think it would confuse many Windows XP users, but the way the
>> system does things has changed. As my daughter did not have too much
>> installed on the machine, there was not much I could do with it. I checked
>> out the office program but it is more than I would ever need.
>>
>> In the stores today, curious to see the price, I walked over to the
>> software department. Having seen the prices on the different Vista boxes,
>> I would not consider buying it. Here again is where Vista sucks. It will
>> suck the money right out of your wallet!
>>
>> If you are running XP, I personally cannot see anything on Home Premium
>> that would warrant an upgrade. My advice is stick with XP until you really
>> do need a new computer. Apparently I am not alone in my thinking as
>> today's reports say that retailers have sold only half the amount of
>> shrink-wrapped Vistas to date as they did when Windows XP was launched.
>> Also, Microsoft has dialed back expectations on profits because of the
>> lack of sales. Vista sucked the share price down as well.
>>
>> Will I upgrade to Vista? Nope, I will upgrade to PCLinuxOS 2007 being
>> released around the end of this month. It is coming with 3d (yes I know
>> Vista has that), it has translucency (yes I know Vista has that), it has
>> beautiful eye candy (yes I know Vista has that) and it also comes with a
>> complete Graphical User Interface (GUI). In other words, you don't need to
>> use a command line tool, (yes, I know, Vista does that as well) and it is
>> FREE! (I know, Vista does not do that.)
>>
>> Definition of free? Free to download, free to share, free to modify, free
>> to install on as many computers as you need it to be installed on, free to
>> give to your friends and family! Yes, I know Vista does not do THAT! I
>> always did say PCLinuxOS was better than Windows - it does more than
>> Vista!


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Re: You really need to get out - Just FYI

Re: You really need to get out - Just FYI

"Spanky deMonkey" <spanky@demonkey6666.net> wrote in message
news:un7Rq3LJIHA.1208@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> You really are tied to the computer. All you do is bash Vista. Why not
> put an application in at Taco-Bell. Think outside the BUN.
>
> Just FYI
>


ROTFLMAO! Gosh... that -is- funny! "Think outside the BUN." Yeah, baby!

Lang
 
Re: Vista Sucks Big Time - By R. Adkins

"Drew" wrote:
> You really are an idiot who obviously doesn't even own a real
> computer..!!...If you knew anything you would know that xp was a lousy op
> system that needed to and had to be so stuffed full of patches that it has
> become a dog that still needs a vet to continually patch it up...Do you even
> understand how ram works or is supposed to work ??

ROTF... no, Windows ME was a crappy joke of an OS. XP was great in
comparison. What pisses me off about Vista is not just that some of my old
software won't work... the file management system lost about 50 IQ points
over XP. Gee... what's the point of sticking with Windows if it can't get
these BASICS right?????? Oh... I remember... because I'm stuck in a
proprietary trap.

If YOU don't understand the above... perhaps you might own a PC but haven't
given it ANY thought.
 
Re: You really need to get out - Just FYI

Re: You really need to get out - Just FYI

Lang Murphy wrote:
> "Spanky deMonkey" <spanky@demonkey6666.net> wrote in message
> news:un7Rq3LJIHA.1208@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> You really are tied to the computer. All you do is bash Vista. Why
>> not put an application in at Taco-Bell. Think outside the BUN.
>>
>> Just FYI
>>
>
>
> ROTFLMAO! Gosh... that -is- funny! "Think outside the BUN." Yeah, baby!
>
> Lang

You sure are amused easily.

--
Alias

To email me, remove shoes
 
Re: Vista Sucks Big Time - By R. Adkins

"teyebeareeus" <teyebeareeus@vista.in> wrote in message
news:4737845f$3@newsgate.x-privat.org...
> http://mag.mypclinuxos.com/html/Issues/200704/page10.html
>
> Vista Sucks Big Time
> By R. Adkins
>
>
>
> Vista, the much hyped up, latest, Bill Gates offering to the world, sucks
> big time in my opinion.
>
....

I can remember the same kind of complaints when DOS 3.2 came out. Some
things never change.

--
Joseph Meehan

Dia 's Muire duit
 
Re: Vista Sucks Big Time - By R. Adkins

> I can remember the same kind of complaints when DOS 3.2 came out. Some
> things never change.

some people do not like change...

some people welcome change, but know when they see crap


"Joseph Meehan" <sligoNoSPAMjoe@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%23%23lsMCTJIHA.484@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> "teyebeareeus" <teyebeareeus@vista.in> wrote in message
> news:4737845f$3@newsgate.x-privat.org...
>> http://mag.mypclinuxos.com/html/Issues/200704/page10.html
>>
>> Vista Sucks Big Time
>> By R. Adkins
>>
>>
>>
>> Vista, the much hyped up, latest, Bill Gates offering to the world, sucks
>> big time in my opinion.
>>
> ...
>
> I can remember the same kind of complaints when DOS 3.2 came out. Some
> things never change.
>
> --
> Joseph Meehan
>
> Dia 's Muire duit
>
>
>
 
Re: Vista Sucks Big Time - By R. Adkins

And some people just like to use these boards to BITCH about
Microsoft and Vista, because they're not smart enough to
figure out a simple operating system.


"teyebeareeus" <teyebeareeus@vista.in> wrote in message
news:47385ccb$1@newsgate.x-privat.org...
>> I can remember the same kind of complaints when DOS 3.2 came out. Some
>> things never change.
>
> some people do not like change...
>
> some people welcome change, but know when they see crap
>
>
> "Joseph Meehan" <sligoNoSPAMjoe@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23%23lsMCTJIHA.484@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> "teyebeareeus" <teyebeareeus@vista.in> wrote in message
>> news:4737845f$3@newsgate.x-privat.org...
>>> http://mag.mypclinuxos.com/html/Issues/200704/page10.html
>>>
>>> Vista Sucks Big Time
>>> By R. Adkins
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Vista, the much hyped up, latest, Bill Gates offering to the world,
>>> sucks big time in my opinion.
>>>
>> ...
>>
>> I can remember the same kind of complaints when DOS 3.2 came out.
>> Some things never change.
>>
>> --
>> Joseph Meehan
>>
>> Dia 's Muire duit
>>
>>
>>
>
>
 
Re: Vista Sucks Big Time - By R. Adkins

yeah right.. you actually think I dumb enough not to know vista? lol

what is vista anyway.. its just a crappy version of windows..

nothing much to learn there...


the only challenge vista has is to learn all the tricks you need to do in
order to avoid
the tens of thousands of bugs it has.

And I know most of them


"jrb1164" <jimburmeister@msn.com> wrote in message
news:eBd$2fTJIHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> And some people just like to use these boards to BITCH about
> Microsoft and Vista, because they're not smart enough to
> figure out a simple operating system.
>
>
> "teyebeareeus" <teyebeareeus@vista.in> wrote in message
> news:47385ccb$1@newsgate.x-privat.org...
>>> I can remember the same kind of complaints when DOS 3.2 came out. Some
>>> things never change.
>>
>> some people do not like change...
>>
>> some people welcome change, but know when they see crap
>>
>>
>> "Joseph Meehan" <sligoNoSPAMjoe@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:%23%23lsMCTJIHA.484@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>> "teyebeareeus" <teyebeareeus@vista.in> wrote in message
>>> news:4737845f$3@newsgate.x-privat.org...
>>>> http://mag.mypclinuxos.com/html/Issues/200704/page10.html
>>>>
>>>> Vista Sucks Big Time
>>>> By R. Adkins
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Vista, the much hyped up, latest, Bill Gates offering to the world,
>>>> sucks big time in my opinion.
>>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> I can remember the same kind of complaints when DOS 3.2 came out.
>>> Some things never change.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Joseph Meehan
>>>
>>> Dia 's Muire duit
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
 
Re: You really need to get out - Just FYI

Re: You really need to get out - Just FYI


"Alias" <iamalias@gmailshoes.com> wrote in message
news:fh9c6k$m93$4@aioe.org...
> Lang Murphy wrote:
>> "Spanky deMonkey" <spanky@demonkey6666.net> wrote in message
>> news:un7Rq3LJIHA.1208@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>> You really are tied to the computer. All you do is bash Vista. Why not
>>> put an application in at Taco-Bell. Think outside the BUN.
>>>
>>> Just FYI
>>>
>>
>>
>> ROTFLMAO! Gosh... that -is- funny! "Think outside the BUN." Yeah, baby!
>>
>> Lang
>
> You sure are amused easily.

You NEED to be better amused. Stop with the Ubuntu stuff and start enjoying
life a bit more.
>
> --
> Alias
>
> To email me, remove shoes
 
Re: You really need to get out - Just FYI

Re: You really need to get out - Just FYI

Spanky deMonkey wrote:
> "Alias" <iamalias@gmailshoes.com> wrote in message
> news:fh9c6k$m93$4@aioe.org...
>> Lang Murphy wrote:
>>> "Spanky deMonkey" <spanky@demonkey6666.net> wrote in message
>>> news:un7Rq3LJIHA.1208@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>>> You really are tied to the computer. All you do is bash Vista. Why not
>>>> put an application in at Taco-Bell. Think outside the BUN.
>>>>
>>>> Just FYI
>>>>
>>>
>>> ROTFLMAO! Gosh... that -is- funny! "Think outside the BUN." Yeah, baby!
>>>
>>> Lang
>> You sure are amused easily.
>
> You NEED to be better amused.

By whom?

> Stop with the Ubuntu stuff and start enjoying
> life a bit more.

I enjoy life a lot and Ubuntu makes it even more enjoyable.

--
Alias

To email me, remove shoes
 
Re: Vista Sucks Big Time - By R. Adkins

Tens of thousands of bugs? That statement certainly gives your opinions
credibility.
"teyebeareeus" <teyebeareeus@vista.in> wrote in message
news:4738651e$1@newsgate.x-privat.org...
> yeah right.. you actually think I dumb enough not to know vista? lol
>
> what is vista anyway.. its just a crappy version of windows..
>
> nothing much to learn there...
>
>
> the only challenge vista has is to learn all the tricks you need to do in
> order to avoid
> the tens of thousands of bugs it has.
>
> And I know most of them
>
>
> "jrb1164" <jimburmeister@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:eBd$2fTJIHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> And some people just like to use these boards to BITCH about
>> Microsoft and Vista, because they're not smart enough to
>> figure out a simple operating system.
>>
>>
>> "teyebeareeus" <teyebeareeus@vista.in> wrote in message
>> news:47385ccb$1@newsgate.x-privat.org...
>>>> I can remember the same kind of complaints when DOS 3.2 came out. Some
>>>> things never change.
>>>
>>> some people do not like change...
>>>
>>> some people welcome change, but know when they see crap
>>>
>>>
>>> "Joseph Meehan" <sligoNoSPAMjoe@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:%23%23lsMCTJIHA.484@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>>> "teyebeareeus" <teyebeareeus@vista.in> wrote in message
>>>> news:4737845f$3@newsgate.x-privat.org...
>>>>> http://mag.mypclinuxos.com/html/Issues/200704/page10.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Vista Sucks Big Time
>>>>> By R. Adkins
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Vista, the much hyped up, latest, Bill Gates offering to the world,
>>>>> sucks big time in my opinion.
>>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> I can remember the same kind of complaints when DOS 3.2 came out.
>>>> Some things never change.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Joseph Meehan
>>>>
>>>> Dia 's Muire duit
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
 
Re: Vista Sucks Big Time - By R. Adkins

Wow. XP used half, if not more of the available RAM when it was
released. I had 128 MB of RAM in my machine, and it barely ran XP worth
a damn. Slow on the P3-450's of the time. Compatibility really sucked
with printers and scanners. And a lot of software refused to work.
Hmmm.... Times have changed. I'm glad the software is moving with the
hardware. Isn't that how it's always been? It's like bashing a new game
(Crysis) that can't play on new hardware at maximum settings... At least
when you get new hardware, it'll keep getting better.

If you want an OS that runs fast with small hardware requirements, run
DOS and Win3.11. It's a screamer! Even on my Pentium 3 450.

--
Dustin Harper
dharper@vistarip.com
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teyebeareeus wrote:
> http://mag.mypclinuxos.com/html/Issues/200704/page10.html
>
> Vista Sucks Big Time
> By R. Adkins
>
>
>
> Vista, the much hyped up, latest, Bill Gates offering to the world, sucks
> big time in my opinion.
>
> My daughter bought a new laptop last week. Once she got it home, she could
> not wait to show me this laptop with a gig of ram, 85 gig hard drive, and
> Vista Home Premium as the operating system. She was kind enough to let me
> take a look at the new laptop and Vista.
>
> When I booted the laptop, I sat watching the screen. It had some great
> graphics on the boot up screen, but it became quite apparent that this
> operating system took a lot more time, than Windows XP, to boot. I sat
> waiting; to me it seemed a long time, but it finally booted and the laptop
> was up and running,
>
> Personally, I run some pretty old computers in my house; a P2 450 with 128
> megs of ram and a P3 800 with 384 megs of ram, so I was expecting great
> things when this laptop had a gig installed. To tell the truth, I was
> disappointed in the speed of the machine, but then I realized this thing
> uses half the ram just to run the operating system. To me, that seemed to be
> an incredible amount of ram needed. It made me wonder what it will use when
> it has been installed for six months and the registry gets bloated.
>
> One of the things that annoyed me right away were the pop-ups that ask if
> you want to do this or that. The permission thing drove me nuts after a few
> minutes, and if I owned the computer, it would be the first thing that I
> would turn off.
>
> Vista's eye candy looks great; the start menu is close enough to XP's that I
> don't think it would confuse many Windows XP users, but the way the system
> does things has changed. As my daughter did not have too much installed on
> the machine, there was not much I could do with it. I checked out the office
> program but it is more than I would ever need.
>
> In the stores today, curious to see the price, I walked over to the software
> department. Having seen the prices on the different Vista boxes, I would not
> consider buying it. Here again is where Vista sucks. It will suck the money
> right out of your wallet!
>
> If you are running XP, I personally cannot see anything on Home Premium that
> would warrant an upgrade. My advice is stick with XP until you really do
> need a new computer. Apparently I am not alone in my thinking as today's
> reports say that retailers have sold only half the amount of shrink-wrapped
> Vistas to date as they did when Windows XP was launched. Also, Microsoft has
> dialed back expectations on profits because of the lack of sales. Vista
> sucked the share price down as well.
>
> Will I upgrade to Vista? Nope, I will upgrade to PCLinuxOS 2007 being
> released around the end of this month. It is coming with 3d (yes I know
> Vista has that), it has translucency (yes I know Vista has that), it has
> beautiful eye candy (yes I know Vista has that) and it also comes with a
> complete Graphical User Interface (GUI). In other words, you don't need to
> use a command line tool, (yes, I know, Vista does that as well) and it is
> FREE! (I know, Vista does not do that.)
>
> Definition of free? Free to download, free to share, free to modify, free to
> install on as many computers as you need it to be installed on, free to give
> to your friends and family! Yes, I know Vista does not do THAT! I always did
> say PCLinuxOS was better than Windows - it does more than Vista!
>
>
 
Re: Vista Sucks Big Time - By R. Adkins

Charlie wrote:
> Tens of thousands of bugs? That statement certainly gives your opinions
> credibility.

As far as I'm concerned, there are far less bugs. I can only list nine
off the top of my head:

1. WPA
2. WGA
3. DRM
4. Hyper sensitivity to hardware change
5. Slow file transfer
6. Indexing your hard drive into an early grave
7. Price
8. Lame Aero that is really lame compared to Compiz-Fusion or Leopard.
9. Frank uses Vista

--
Alias

To email me, remove shoes
 
Re: Vista Sucks Big Time - By R. Adkins

> Tens of thousands of bugs? That statement certainly gives your opinions
> credibility.

!!!SLAP!!!!! TO THE FANBOY!

you must be kidding... YOU DONT KNOW YOUR MS HISTORY MY DEAR FANBOY!

Windows 2000 had 63000 known bugs! That is "sixty three thousand" KNOWN
bugs!

Read here you BOZOBRAIN
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/02/17/windows.2000/

who said this? MS itself in a memo.. and I quote:

" a leaked Microsoft memo stating that Windows 2000 has 63,000 known bugs. "

Now if windows 2k kai 63 thousand bugs, do you actually think that vista
with all its problem would not have a few ten of thousand bugs?

SURE IT DOES!

But MS has learned its lesson with Win2K and now its keeping its mouth shut
and keeping its dirty memos to itself as top secret, hoping dorks like you
will buy its crappy vista virus.






"Charlie" <Charlie@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:uMlMURUJIHA.484@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Tens of thousands of bugs? That statement certainly gives your opinions
> credibility.
> "teyebeareeus" <teyebeareeus@vista.in> wrote in message
> news:4738651e$1@newsgate.x-privat.org...
>> yeah right.. you actually think I dumb enough not to know vista? lol
>>
>> what is vista anyway.. its just a crappy version of windows..
>>
>> nothing much to learn there...
>>
>>
>> the only challenge vista has is to learn all the tricks you need to do in
>> order to avoid
>> the tens of thousands of bugs it has.
>>
>> And I know most of them
>>
>>
>> "jrb1164" <jimburmeister@msn.com> wrote in message
>> news:eBd$2fTJIHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>> And some people just like to use these boards to BITCH about
>>> Microsoft and Vista, because they're not smart enough to
>>> figure out a simple operating system.
>>>
>>>
>>> "teyebeareeus" <teyebeareeus@vista.in> wrote in message
>>> news:47385ccb$1@newsgate.x-privat.org...
>>>>> I can remember the same kind of complaints when DOS 3.2 came out.
>>>>> Some things never change.
>>>>
>>>> some people do not like change...
>>>>
>>>> some people welcome change, but know when they see crap
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Joseph Meehan" <sligoNoSPAMjoe@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:%23%23lsMCTJIHA.484@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>>>> "teyebeareeus" <teyebeareeus@vista.in> wrote in message
>>>>> news:4737845f$3@newsgate.x-privat.org...
>>>>>> http://mag.mypclinuxos.com/html/Issues/200704/page10.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Vista Sucks Big Time
>>>>>> By R. Adkins
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Vista, the much hyped up, latest, Bill Gates offering to the world,
>>>>>> sucks big time in my opinion.
>>>>>>
>>>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>> I can remember the same kind of complaints when DOS 3.2 came out.
>>>>> Some things never change.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Joseph Meehan
>>>>>
>>>>> Dia 's Muire duit
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
 
Re: Vista Sucks Big Time - By R. Adkins

number 9 should be number 1. lol

"Alias" <iamalias@gmailshoes.com> wrote in message
news:fh9tet$hbp$1@aioe.org...
> Charlie wrote:
>> Tens of thousands of bugs? That statement certainly gives your opinions
>> credibility.
>
> As far as I'm concerned, there are far less bugs. I can only list nine off
> the top of my head:
>
> 1. WPA
> 2. WGA
> 3. DRM
> 4. Hyper sensitivity to hardware change
> 5. Slow file transfer
> 6. Indexing your hard drive into an early grave
> 7. Price
> 8. Lame Aero that is really lame compared to Compiz-Fusion or Leopard.
> 9. Frank uses Vista
>
> --
> Alias
>
> To email me, remove shoes
 
Re: Vista Sucks Big Time - By R. Adkins

"Dustin Harper" <dharper@vistarip.com> wrote in message
news:O%23T5vsUJIHA.5400@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Wow. XP used half, if not more of the available RAM when it was released.
> I had 128 MB of RAM in my machine, and it barely ran XP worth a damn. Slow
> on the P3-450's of the time. Compatibility really sucked with printers and
> scanners. And a lot of software refused to work. Hmmm.... Times have
> changed. I'm glad the software is moving with the hardware. Isn't that how
> it's always been? It's like bashing a new game (Crysis) that can't play on
> new hardware at maximum settings... At least when you get new hardware,
> it'll keep getting better.
>
> If you want an OS that runs fast with small hardware requirements, run DOS
> and Win3.11. It's a screamer! Even on my Pentium 3 450.
>
> --
> Dustin Harper
> dharper@vistarip.com
> http://www.vistarip.com
>
>

I might try installing 3.1 on my computer.
I still have the floppies
When I ran 3.1...it was on a 80386-33 MHz , I did add a Math Coprocessor.
 
Re: Vista Sucks Big Time - By R. Adkins

Try it in a virtual machine. Wow. It's a screamer! :)

--
Dustin Harper
dharper@vistarip.com
http://www.vistarip.com


forty-nine wrote:
> "Dustin Harper" <dharper@vistarip.com> wrote in message
> news:O%23T5vsUJIHA.5400@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Wow. XP used half, if not more of the available RAM when it was
>> released. I had 128 MB of RAM in my machine, and it barely ran XP
>> worth a damn. Slow on the P3-450's of the time. Compatibility really
>> sucked with printers and scanners. And a lot of software refused to
>> work. Hmmm.... Times have changed. I'm glad the software is moving
>> with the hardware. Isn't that how it's always been? It's like bashing
>> a new game (Crysis) that can't play on new hardware at maximum
>> settings... At least when you get new hardware, it'll keep getting
>> better.
>>
>> If you want an OS that runs fast with small hardware requirements, run
>> DOS and Win3.11. It's a screamer! Even on my Pentium 3 450.
>>
>> --
>> Dustin Harper
>> dharper@vistarip.com
>> http://www.vistarip.com
>>
>>
>
> I might try installing 3.1 on my computer.
> I still have the floppies
> When I ran 3.1...it was on a 80386-33 MHz , I did add a Math Coprocessor.
 

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