Is Vista a Trap?

logube writes "BBC has up an article about the trap of installing Vista in your existing desktop. Written by Tim Weber, a self-confessed 'sucker for technology,' this article is a good introduction to the pain and extra money required to get going with the newest version of Windows. See how you can spend an extra 130 british pounds, and still have no working webcam! Says Weber, 'It took me one day to get online. The detail is tedious and highly technical: reinstalling drivers and router firmware didn't work, but after many trial and error tweaks to Vista's TCP/IP settings, I had internet access. Once online, Creative's website told me that my sound card was a write-off. No Vista support would be forthcoming.'"

Comments

Frawless Victoly!

[dr_dank]

Focus your fire on that unsupported hardware!

Tag

[jdavidb]

Why do I get the feeling this was posted solely to let people use "itsatrap" as a tag?

Bastards

[jernejk]

Vista won't recognise my C64 tape drive either! Those MS bastards! It's a conspiracy, I tell you!

Re:throwing up my hands

[mikelieman]

So, it's like moving to Linux but with the additional pleasures of both paying $200.00 and still not getting any useful bundled applications?

Re:this was expected

[Smidge204]

also, by that logic, linux is a trap

At least you get the satisfaction of spending a whole day (or more) putting the elaborate, Rube Goldberg-esque trap together yourself first.

=Smidge=

wait a minute...

[revlayle]

I can't even do an "oblig"!!! The article title already did :(

I feel your pain

[hey!]

It took me one day to get online. The detail is tedious and highly technical: reinstalling drivers and router firmware didn't work, but after many trial and error tweaks to Vista's TCP/IP settings, I had internet access.

So, what you're saying it's kind of like installing an oddball wi-fi card on Linux. Except without the option of reading hundreds of pages of obscure documentation until you've transformed yourself into a mutant linux hotplugging guru.

In a nutshell, the differnce between getting things working in Linux and Windows seems to be this. Linux is like being parachuted into the wilderness with a hammer, forge, and load of pig iron. Windows is like being parachuted into the wilderness with an impressive looking knife that snaps in two if you don't use it very, very carefully.

Re:Whose Fault Again?

[mhall119]

I've been preaching this for a while now - Vista isn't at fault here - the hardware manufacturers are! Stick it to them - they have had 6 years to prepare for the launch. It's also been over a year and a half that Vista has been availble from MSDN and such.

It doesn't matter whose fault it is, Linux^H^H^H^H^HVista or the hardware vendor, the fact of the matter is that people expect their computers to "Just Work"(tm). All my grandma is going to know is that under Linux^H^H^H^H^HVista, her sound card doesn't work, but under Windows XP it did. Linux^H^H^H^H^HVista needs to support this hardware out of the box, and until it does, Linux^H^H^H^H^HVista will never be ready for the desktop.

Seriously, you Linux^H^H^H^H^HVista fanboys need to stop living in denial and admit that Linux^H^H^H^H^HVista has some serious problems that make it unusable for most people.

Re:Does Vista have anything we need?

[rbanffy]

Because in Soviet America, America hates you.

(sorry - couldn't resist)