Re: Tried Linux - is it really worth the hassle?

Nick Le Lievre wrote:

Well maybe Vista ain't so bad

See below for a paste of a message I posted in a.o.l.ubuntu.

Startup programs running in the background. If it happens under XP too you can't blame Vista.

You can blame MS though :-)

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The Primate wrote:
Vista has worked quite well for me. Curious what hasn't worked well
> for you. I boot it and Ubuntu.

"This program has known compatibility problems with this version of Windows..."

Look familiar? May force you to have to upgrade more than you bargained for, not only expensive but the later version of something might not work for you.

Sidebar, when it can be bothered to work, I had configured clocks in different time zones, London, Houston & Baku. Randomly, some other panel would appear with news that is uninteresting to me and 2 clocks would disappear, these being random too as it wasn't always the same clocks that vanished.

since Re-installing, the sidebar as refused to work at all, good riddance really.

There's the humongous amount of RAM it eats up. I could do most things at work and be comfortable with 1GB RAM in XPee, now I need 2GB for Vista or it's swapping like crazy.

Oh yes, well done Microsoft for moving everything around again so options I want to change are now somewhere else compared to XP. Now I have to remember where things are in Vista, XP, 2000, etc. having to re-learn thie same *** over and over. Almost as bad as running several WMs in Linux :-)

Where's the "Last Known Good" menu gone? Not that it worked that well in previous versions but they could at least leave it in then the boot after the repeated BSODs might stand a chance.

When all else fails and you need to do a system restore from the boot DVD and it tells you that you have no restore points on drive c: don't get mad, just boot up an Ubuntu LiveCD, mount it and look in "c:\system volume information" and say "ha! I knew it, there is restore points, you are sooooooo wrong!". That's about all you can do 'cause your Vista DVD aint gonna repair your Windows installation, you are SOL.

Actually I just looked at my laptop, there are no restore points on it. Seems that option is now switched off by default, that was something I really thought wouldn't be the case. I wonder what the reasoning was behind that decision then? So if it goes tits up you really don't stand a chance do you?

Am wondering what was in "c:\system volume information" if it wasn't restore information.

Too many things need system admin privvies, the warning dialogue for that comes up way to often it's like the boy who cried wolf, soon you will learn to dismiss it without giving a second thought, one time it might actually have a point. Then see above about system restore.

Wouldn't run StarTeam client at all, took me a while to figure out I had to run it the first time as system administrator then it will run OK after that. No error messages were given in the first instance.

When running a Virtual PC, you can talk to that PC via the network but take your laptop somewhere where there's no network to plug into and it decides that your cable is unplugged so your NIC cannot have an IP address therefore you can no longer talk to your virtual machines that are running in your desktop like teenage children (never listen).

That's about all I can think of for now, forgive me for being brief this is my laptop we're talking about and not my main PC.

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