"Reasons to stick with Windows Vista and avoid Ubuntu"

[Jerome Haltom]

Yes, well, my hard drive constantly spins in Ubuntu if I leave Beagle or
Tracker on too. So, I don't.

As for the preinstalled stuff, yeah... but Windows OEM installs have
been that way for a decade. I suspect that if OEMs were to distribute
Linux machines in the volume they distributed Windows machines they'd
write Linux-crap ware for them. =(

On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 17:22 -0400, Michael R. Head wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 15:47 -0500, Jerome Haltom wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Maybe there's a difference between what's preinstalled (my laptop came
> with Vista Ultimate) and what one installs manually. There's a ton of
> extra crap there, and the hard drive constantly spins in Vista, slowing
> everything down. I haven't timed the speed of the boot in Vista, but I
> can tell you that I need to wait quite a while before I have a usable
> desktop. I get app windows saying "not responding" frequently. And this
> is on a very new T61P with 2GB of RAM on a 2.2Ghz Dual Core with a
> ultra-modern nvidia chipset. 
> 
> > 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
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> >