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

[Simon Willett]

This is the best news I've had all day. 

Simon

> 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 !