[Chester LUG] Is it me or is Vista rather poor?

[David Holden]

On Tuesday 20 March 2007 12:45 pm, Stuart Burns wrote:
> This morning I had the misfortune of setting up a new laptop for a user, a
> nice Sony Vaio VGN ultra portable. Lovely laptop. Then I booted Vista and
> then it all went to pot.
>
> I'm quite gobsmacked at how poor Vista is. Here am I, a Windows SA of over
> a decade of playing with these things and it has taken me 2.5 hours to get
> updates installed and clicking yes everytime I want to do something. Its so
> different to old windows, and as a windows user I actually found it quite
> hard to use and configure. God forbid I was a normal user. Now I like XP,
> XP is (fairly) straightforward but this Vista, its a retrograde step.
> Nothing is working the same as it used to! Oh and booting with under a gig
> of ram is not so good! Its all toys for toys sake and as for the security
> model? To my mind it would have been better if they had a Windows
> Administrator account, that has to be logged into, and as I logged into it
> as Admin, I kinda know what I want to do, not to have the bloody PC second
> guess everything I do.
>
> Anybody else finding the same thing ? It makes me ever more thankful of
> ubuntu at home !

 It makes you wonder about all those arguments that you should not move to 
linux because of all the retraining costs..

 Dave.


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