Re: Windows Vista SP1 RTM Is A Whole Lot Slower Than Open SourceLinux Ubuntu, Just FYI.
On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:03:38 -0500, Don wrote:
> <none@none> wrote in message
> news:e5yB1iPmIHA.3940@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> Okay, So I Finally Ended My Microsoft Boycott Of Windows Vista Service
>> Pack One RTM And Returned 2 It Yesterday Night, And Now I Am Wondering
>> Exactly What Was I Thinking (As Windows Vista Service Pack One Is A
>> Whole Lot Slower Than Open Source Linux Ubuntu 7.10 RTW, Open Source
>> Linux Ubuntu 8.04 Long Term Support Official Beta Refresh, And
>> Microsoft Windows Server 2008 RTM), Just FYI. I Think That Frank, Bill
>> Yanyire, The MS-MVP's, And Microsoft Itself Needs A Major Wake Up Call
>> Regarding Windows Vista Service Pack One, As It's Much Slower Than The
>> Other 3 Mentioned Operating Systems Combined, Just FYI. All Sold Copies
>> Of Windows Vista Needs 2 Be Recalled, Before It Does Some Kind Of Major
>> Destruction 2 Some Large Corporation's Computer Networks, Also Just
>> FYI.
>
> Are you for real? Seriously, you make some really ridiculous posts to
> these forums.
>
> Just move on over to Ubuntu, and their forums! There are many, running
> Vista, SP1, with no issue, and actually like it. Just because you can't
> seem to get a handle on it, you think it needs to be recalled or
> something?
>
> Granted, Vista is not for everyone, just as Ubuntu is not going to be
> for everyone.
> I personally, am running Vista Ultimate 64 bit, and happen to like it,
> it works for me and what I do very, very well. But because it does, I am
> not going to state that is should run great for everyone and do
> everything they need to do. There is no one size fits all here, that is
> why we have choices, and why that is a good thing.
>
> Do yourself a favor, make a choice , and move on. But don't make posts
> on the pretense, that you are speaking for all of us that are using
> Vista. If you want to complain to MS, about your displeasure with Vista,
> or any of their other software, go to their website and find the
> appropriate channel to send it through - you do realize, here on this
> newsgroup, it is just a peer to peer newsgroup right? And most folks,
> that read your post, aren't going to give a rat's a&^ about how you
> feel?
>
> If Vista was in that bad a shape, folks wouldn't be buying it, and MS
> would be scrambling to do something about it.
Well, I'd consider it in bad shape when a developer who has spent 10
years of his life writing nothing but software for windows and who
couldn't give a rats ass about linux now uses linux nearly exclusively.
Namely myself...
Now granted, it primarily is advances that linux has made in the past
12-18 months that receive a lot of credit for that, but it's vista that
deserves the credit for being the trigger.
Vista is the first MS OS I did not and as of this day simply don't want.
DOS->Win95 I happily upgraded.
Win98->Win2k I happy upgraded.
Win2k->XP I paused simply only due to the fact that, pre-SP2, the only
thing it offered over Win2k was a childish color scheme until MS forced
me to upgrade by making Visual Studio 2003 XP only. However, I never
actually had any problem with XP other than it's childish color scheme
and I think many would probably not disagree on that. Over Win98/ME
though, which was probably the case for the general majority, XP was
definitely the way to go.
Vista though? I mean, why? The only thing it offers over XP is to be a
royal pain in my ass. And yes, I've had it installed and used it. It
seems many people I meet also don't particularly care of it. Come to
think of it, aside from people in this NG, I've yet to find someone that
actually likes it.
Ironically, the other week, we had a MS Consultant in our office. I
chatted with him for a while and we started chatting about my new system
and the new severs I put up, all linux based and how many machines in the
office are going to be converted to linux systems in the future.
His response? He fully agreed with me, saying himself that when he wants
systems that are trouble free he prefers linux. Yup, this is coming from
a MS consultant.
Yes MS is selling Vista but is that really an accomplishment? I don't
think so for the simple reason that it's going to come bundled with every
PC whether people like it or not. People don't go out and buy "Vista",
they go out and buy a Desktop/Laptop. It happens to have Vista on it. In
many cases, if you want XP, you have to explicitly ask for it and the
model selection available with XP may be limited and may not match the
users needs as far as hardware goes. So seriously, how much of an
accomplishment any number of licenses sold when ultimately, there isn't
much of a choice? It's kind of like a gas station bragging about the
gallons of fuel sold...well no shit, people need fuel...they're going to
buy it whether they like it or not...
Also the statement floating around that now supposedly there will be
another windows release in a year makes it seem to me that Microsoft is
scrambling to do something about it. I have my doubts that it's actually
going to happen but...
So do I think Vista is doing good? Nope I don't. Of course, this is all
just my opinion and in the grand scheme of things my opinion isn't worth
two shits. Only time will tell how things are going to turn out.
What I'd like to see, which of course is never going to happen, is that
every machine be sold without an OS. No pre-installed Linux, no pre-
installed Windows, no pre-installed MacOS. All machines sold clean and
the OS then bought and installed by the User.
I'd love to see how Vista would fare in *that* scenario because really,
that's the only way to compare apples to apples as it puts all OS' equal
to each other. The user truly is the one who makes the choice in that
case.
Note to various assorted fanboys: Don't even bother responding unless
you've got something intelligent to contribute.
--
Stephan
1986 Pontiac Fiero GT
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