"Reasons to stick with Windows Vista and avoid Ubuntu"

[Jerome Haltom]

Weird. I installed Vista on my desktop and it didn't take more than 20
minutes from start to finish, including updates. The CD install took
less than 10. XP takes about 10 at this point.

Vista, for me, boots up to desktop in about 11 seconds. Ubuntu takes
near a minute.

I guess I must be biased. Or something. =)

On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 12:42 -0400, Michael R. Head wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 07:28 -0500, Richard A. Johnson wrote:
> > On Tuesday 21 August 2007, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> > | Seen in the blogosphere today:
> > |
> > | "Reasons to stick with Windows Vista and avoid Ubuntu"
> > | http://vista.blorge.com/2007/08/21/reasons-to-stick-with-windows-vista-and-
> > |avoid-ubuntu/
> > 
> > You sure know how to make ones blood boil early in the morning :)
> > 
> > This same guy did a horrible review of Ubuntu not even a month back as well. 
> > If I remember correctly, he was chewed up in the comments about it. If he is 
> > installing Vista in 30 minutes, he has streamlined the CD. To verify this, I 
> > called both Circuit City and Best Buy and told them I was interested in 
> > having Vista installed on the new drive. Best Buy came in with the best turn 
> > around time of 4 hours. I asked why so long. Of course there is a wait as I 
> 
> I just got a new Thinkpad T61P which has Vista installed by default (I
> would have chosen XP Pro if I'd had the choice), and just setting up
> Vista and getting all the 4-5 system/application updaters to complete
> took around 5-6 hours. 
> 
> Ubuntu would have installed much faster than that, but for a few
> problems with the newness of the hardware (I've reported a bunch of
> bugs... hopefully they'll be fixed by gutsy release so the Desktop CD
> will at least find the CD drive and boot without the kernel dying when
> it finds the wireless card!).
> 
> -- 
> Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
> http://picasaweb.google.com/demiri.head.wedding
> 
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