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

Does Vista have anything we need?

[koan]

Anyone using this malware? Does it have anything we need?

Re:Does Vista have anything we need?

[causality]

Before the idiot mods come out and mod you as "Troll" or "Flamebait", I want to point out that THIS IS OBVIOUSLY HUMOROUS.

Self-confessed

[Philip K Dickhead]

"Cocksucker for technology."

Vista Again

[CSHARP123]

How many Vista articles on /.
ZOnk, I KNOW NOW that Vista is not ready for DESKTOP.
I AM INSTALLING Ubuntu.

Starting to annoy...

[HateBreeder]

What's with all these anti-vista posts?

No one forces you to use it.

You can stay with that ol' linux box that doesn't have a single decent image-browser, dc++ client, office suite, ... etc.
Not to mention decent looking fonts (anti-aliasing in linux is light-years away from cleartype - seen the major distros, xorg 7.1 w/latest kde - it's still crap)

I don't mind paying for good 3rd party apps. just that they don't exist for linux.

Re:Starting to annoy...

[HateBreeder]

Oh, give me a break.
Gwenview - sucks completly compared to something like ACDsee. (90% of the other linux apps are mere rip-offs of ACDsee)
Picasa - I like the windows version, didn't know they had a linux version. Okay! You win this point. but ... A single app in 2007. and we're just talking about image browsing.. not something fancy.

Office - these MS-Office clones you mentioned are crap. why? because they can't inter-operate with the rest of the world flawlessly. I don't care that microsoft is to blame for closing the format... My professors sometimes send out home-work and papers in word or visio, or lecture notes in power-point... i need these to work! i don't wanna meddle around with things.

and don't give me apt-get install msttcorefonts. In gentoo it's called microsoft true type fonts or something. its not the font that's bad .. i suspect it has to do with the X-Server. when rendering small fonts it just seems blurry. not as sharp and pretty as in windows.

and if we're at it with X - until the composite extension came out, you couldn't even drag one window over the other without forcing a full repaint - Slow as hell! but composite is SO unstable it's barely usable.
these kind of small things make you wanna give up.

Not to mention the horrifying ordeal i had to go through just to set-up my legacy atheros card. madwifi-ng broke it. madwifi-old stopped compiling on kernels over 2.6.19... i manually patched the driver just to get basic things going.

I am the parent. I am not a troll.

I've been using gentoo for years. The only thing keeping me in linux is the ideology. philosophically, you can only trust open-source software. .. that and work. I'm a kernel driver developer.

But i'm getting really frustrated with the utter lack of support for basic things..
When you combine that with fanboys flaming vista... it's very annoying.
First get BASIC things right with linux before you flame MS windows.

Ridiculous

[bostons1337]

Vista Vista Vista....what a mess. My dog could sh*t out a better operating system than that piece of junk. Extremely late and filled with more bugs/exploits than XP, they should have stopped before they even started creating Vista.

That's Nothing!

[gillbates]

See how you can spend an extra 130 british pounds, and still have no working webcam!

I can show you how you can spend no money, install Linux, and not have a working webcam, WiFi, and be stuck at 1024 x 768 because X doesn't recognize your video card!

And for a bonus, I can show you how to spend half the night recompiling SCSI drivers into your kernel so that you can actually use that old SCSI drive which has been collecting dust.

Re:this was expected

[geekoid]

"Did you read the RTFA Mr AC Troll..."

Usually I'm loath to point out grammer error.

RFA stand for Read The Fucking Manual.
so you said:

Did you read the read the fucking manual Mr AC Troll...

I mean, it made you look really stupid.

Re:No.

[multisync]

How would they enforce it? If a company just puts out a binary driver, what's to stop the user from installing it? Can YOU think of a way?

The usual coercion and strong-arm tactics should do the trick.