[Wolves] Now I know what Vista hell is!!!!

Kevanf1 kevanf1 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 17 09:57:41 GMT 2008


On 16/01/2008, Andrew Lewis <andrew at monkeysailor.co.uk> wrote:
> I hate the idea of starting an OS flame war, but I feel the need to put
> a few things straight here.

*rant snipped for brevity* ;-)

Well, this is purely a personal experience and it stands.  To me it
reminded me of how I felt when I first tried Linux about 12 or so
years ago now.  Hardly anything worked and it put me off so much I
didn't bother with it again for another 12 months.  Now that didn't
matter because at the time Linux was still very much in the lap of the
uber geek and hobbyist (barring server installs).  The relatively few
people like myself who tried Linux and found it lacking (for us it
definitely was) walked away and it didn't matter.  Nowadays things are
so wonderfully different.  Anybody from a Windows background (such as
I was at the time) can start to use a Linux PC and be productive with
it without having to go through hoops.  This is the important bit,
"without having to go through hoops".  I don't particularly want to be
messing with a PC for hours and hours at a time just to get something
to work with it.  I have much more important things to do with my
time.  Ok, I don't mind the odd exploring session and I'm getting
better when I do manage to break something to put it right again, but
that's by the by.

My experience yesterday is being repeated all over the world.  The
thing is, Microsoft is a business.  A business cannot afford to have
its product (in this case its flagship product) failing so badly and
with such frequency.  Yes, previous incarnations of Windows have been
pretty awful when it comes to crashing etc.  That's different because
the user base was still new and did not really know what to expect.
People now (as in the buying public) expect a lot more from their
product.  This sort of failure can only harm Microsoft's business.
It's quite possible that they have budgeted for this and don't
honestly expect great sales of Vista for the first couple of years, I
don't know.  In the meantime I feel very aggrieved that my daughter
and I are practically guinea pigs and we have paid for the privilege
:-(  Actually, I would say that I had far, far less trouble with
Windows 95b.

I still say Vista is shite :-)  Ubuntu just looks like poo but that
can be put right and I'm so grateful that it can :-)  Yes, after many
years I am actually starting to get to the stage where I can say that
I love Linux over other operating systems....

until my Kubuntu box goes wrong again ;-))))))
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Kevan Farmer
Linux user #373362
Staffordshire



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