On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 15:02:14 -0400, "Hobbes" <Hobbes@Calvins.lol>
wrote:
>For overall ease of use, performance, hardware capability ... Vista.
>
>For free ... ubuntu ... it's free for a reason.
>Malware usually is free : )
Typical fanboy comment. You twits simply can't be objective. One
reason I LOVE to make fun of you clods. It's so easy. Is Ubuntu the
right choice for everyone? Hell no! Neither is Vista. That's the point
that sails far over the heads of the Microsoft faithful.
It is really a matter of degree. Judging by the simplistic bunch that
hang out here Ubuntu is clearly a good alternative if all you are
doing is surfing the web, email, some rudimentary tasks. Clearly Vista
can do that too. Which is after all the point. Why spends hundreds of
dollars for Vista if Ubuntu can fill your needs?
For the rest of us stuck with Vista my main gripe is you rather than
getting the promised WOW, your first impression is blah. Aero, for all
the hype Microsoft gave it is a huge disappointment. Just eye candy
fluff. Poke below the surface and you can't even tweak it in any
useful way. If you try, you're stuck falling back to Classic themes
which don't support Vista.
Yes, Vista's Search abilities have been improved, once you understand
how to use them, but again Microsoft fell flat on their face in the
implementation... a common theme often repeated.
What should be rock solid in a operating system around for over twenty
years, the all important shell, still sucks and often will give you
the moronic Explorer encountered a problem and needs to close message.
File copying for many is painfully slow compared to XP. IE7 is bug
riddled and still falls easy prey to hackers and script kiddies.
What should be Microsoft strength, how it handles multimedia is awful.
The included Media Player often sputters, stalls, refuses to play
industry standard file types. Burning a CD or DVD can causes playback
issues on earlier versions of Windows. Images imported from cameras
can end up getting corrupted. The still crude Disk Management and
Defragmenter tools are at least ten years beyond third party
alternatives. The included Paint, a mere toy incapable of doing
anything beyond the most basic tasks.
Windows Explorer may still refuse to remember how you told it to sort
files. Windows resize and reset their location on your desktop. You
icons placed on your desktop can get totally rearranged if you change
resolution or suffer certain types of system crashes.
I could go on, but I already made my point. Vista isn't polished. Many
would say it still behaves like a Beta. UAC is an insult to your
intelligence and most quickly turn it off.
The bottom line is Ubuntu is a labor of love. Just a bunch of people
working together to offer something that performs quite well and is
offered free. Vista was produced by the world's largest software
developer that supposedly has some of the best talent on the planet.
They demand hundreds of dollars per copy, refuse to listen to customer
suggestions on how to improve it, won't supply help unless you pay for
it and expect their customers to act as unpaid beta testers and never
have been able to release a stable version of Windows until after at
least one Service Pack has patched it's many flaws.
Anyone OBJECTIVELY looking at Vista at best gives it a mediocre
rating. Anyone ranking it higher simply doesn't have a clue what
they're talking about.
