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PC Magazine Editor Throws in the Towel on Vista
MacNN caught this incredible defection and loss of faith by a former Vista booster, PC Magazine editor-in-chief Jim Louderback, as he steps down from his position. "I've been a big proponent of the new OS over the past few months, even going so far as loading it onto most of my computers and spending hours tweaking and optimizing it. So why, nine months after launch, am I so frustrated? The litany of what doesn't work and what still frustrates me stretches on endlessly. The upshot is that even after nine months, Vista just ain't cutting it. I definitely gave Microsoft too much of a free pass on this operating system: I expected it to get the kinks worked out more quickly. Boy, was I fooled! If Microsoft can't get Vista working, I might just do the unthinkable: I might move to Linux."
I know what you mean. I've been looking for a Windows alternative for some time now, but I detest the whole Mac way of doing things, so that's not an option. When I've tried linux, my primary complaint boils down to "What do you mean I can't do [long list of stuff] in linux, or can't do it without jumping through various hoops, even tho these things are so easy to do in Windows??!"
So, yes, after a long history with Windows (and DOS), linux does feel "cramped" -- that's a very good description (kinda like going from driving an SUV to driving a Yugo). I wish this were not the case, I wish that linux would make me feel =more= free to do what I want with my computer, but sad to say this has not been the case.
I think a lot of it is that even to a very savvy DOS/Windows user, linux puts you back at square one, where you don't know anything at all, even tho it LOOKS familiar enough. This may be a lot of why linux is MORE frustrating to experienced DOS/Win users than to newbies, who don't yet have any firm expectations about their desktop OS.
~REZ~ #43301. Who'd fake being me anyway?
The problem is that Microsoft Windows doesn't work like a real O/S. Real O/S's never crash. Not several times a week like Microsoft Windows XP, never. I haven't seen instability like Microsoft Windows XP ever.
My AT&T Unix PC never crashed. Apple OS X doesn't crash. Linux doesn't crash (since the 1.3 days). Solaris doesn't crash. My DEC Alpha running Turbolinux 7 never crashed (but that's bragging, I did the Turbolinux 7 port to DEC Alpha).
If you take that as hostility, fine, whatever. My computers don't crash (now that my work notebook has been upgraded to RHEL from Microsoft Windows XP).