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Vista sucks.
17 years ago
Since I got my laptop back in October, it's had the Acer OEM version of Vista Home Premium installed on it. I've struggled, tweaked, and yelled in frustration in more languages and dialects than is healthy at that damned operating system.
I can't run any sort of productivity software on the machine at anything resembling tolerable performance. Second Life runs poorly, the I/O is atrocious, the networking has insane amounts of latency, sometimes giving me hundreds of milliseconds just to machines here on my local network. My old server made in 2001 running *ix works better than that!
After updating my video drivers, the OS shit itself and refuses to allow the Vista ATI graphics drivers to be installed, updated, or otherwise touched, leaving the machine without 3D capability. That, coupled with the lack of hardware support for my scanner and a number of other peripherals, I've found that I have to use XP and Linux on the machine.
So at the moment I'm backing up a hard drive image of the SATA disk over the network, thanks to an old Linux bootable CD and the magic of NFS and creative use of dd. Thirty gigs out of a hundred fifty is done so far.
After all this is done, I should be able to get a lot more productive.
The real bitch of it for me is that I ordered this thing with XP.
I can't run any sort of productivity software on the machine at anything resembling tolerable performance. Second Life runs poorly, the I/O is atrocious, the networking has insane amounts of latency, sometimes giving me hundreds of milliseconds just to machines here on my local network. My old server made in 2001 running *ix works better than that!
After updating my video drivers, the OS shit itself and refuses to allow the Vista ATI graphics drivers to be installed, updated, or otherwise touched, leaving the machine without 3D capability. That, coupled with the lack of hardware support for my scanner and a number of other peripherals, I've found that I have to use XP and Linux on the machine.
So at the moment I'm backing up a hard drive image of the SATA disk over the network, thanks to an old Linux bootable CD and the magic of NFS and creative use of dd. Thirty gigs out of a hundred fifty is done so far.
After all this is done, I should be able to get a lot more productive.
The real bitch of it for me is that I ordered this thing with XP.
