re: Windows Is Dead. Long Live Linux? page 8
People are angry with Microsoft and its digtal rights dictatorship. Vista is garbage, rubbish, bloatware, crippled.
Have you switched to Linux yet? If so, which distribution?
Have you switched to Linux yet? If so, which distribution?
Comments (Page 8)
I've been cursing Microsoft a lot more since VISTA came out whereas before it, I didn't give a Sh¡t about all the anti-microsoft hype. I found it more amusing than anything else. Now I'm on the bandwagon too.
Have you forgotten the mention of DRM and BLOAT? Do you really need them to be in list form to understand them? Well, just for the list oriented amongst us, here we go'
1 DRM
2 BLOAT
No, it is not an impressive list, but some of us don't need to be impressed in order to think logically. Vista is FUNDAMENTALLY flawed by way of the two aforementioned aberations.
It is a piece of crap and even Microsoft seems to realise it is so. The only reason I can imagine some folks might defend it it is that they are in denial of their error in installing it.
Yep, I admit it.. I installed it too. But I was in the fortunate position to have been able to format the drive and instal a workable OS the same afternoon. I feel sincerely sorry for the folks out there that don't know how, or can't, format their drives and replace Vista.
Vista really is crap! But there is hope. There are MANY operating systems that can run from a CD - requiring NO INSTALLATION at all. Just slip the CD in and off you go. To use these all one needs is to know how to burn an ISO image. Easy!
Anyway, I'm off to try OSX (Hitch's recommendation). All my machines run dual boot Windows XP/ Mepis-Linux, but I am always happy to investigate what someone else recommends.
I have used A LOT of OS's in my time. Vista is almost as crappy as Windows ME (upon which I believe it is based)!
The only thing slower than Vista (outside the 80's) is keying the code in yourself! Vista is a joke - but nobody is laughing... not even Microsoft!
2: Bloat: It's bad for an OS to just let RAM idle. Vista takes charge of your RAM, using it to speed up your computer.
You said " It's bad for an OS to just let RAM idle. Vista takes charge of your RAM, using it to speed up your computer."
That is like saying that 'having more money than you need is bad'... 'give it to US so it may be better used to make your new computer slower than your old one was ten years ago'.
Claims about speed increases by using VISTA are absolute lies! Win 98 was faster than XP and Vista is slower than XP. But let's not let things focus on trash when there are so many BETTER OS's to choose from.
Other than that I can't find much to respond to. Sorry chum.
(1333 FSB, 8GB RAM, blah blah blah)