I hate Vista operating system with a passion. My son hates it. I hate it. My wife, who I think was the target audience, has no reaction to it. I recently replaced my wife’s dead computer with the latest and greatest from Dell. They shipped it with Vista x64. Now our printers don’t work anymore. They just don’t have drivers for 64 bit for Minota PagePro 1350W laser printers. In order to print now, I am lugging out one of my ancient Pentium III computers and will set it up as a file and print server. All the computers in the house will go through the Pentium III for printing services using Windows XP OS.
My computer has Vista x32 but I have no room in the amoire for the laserjet. My computer, a Gateway with maximum allowed 2GB RAM, has a copy of Internet Explorer 7 that freezes up after 5 minutes of use every time. I have uninstalled and reinstalled it, patched it, goosed it and it still freezes after 5 minutes. GMAIL seems to kill it immediately. Yes, I have backed every thing up and will be blowing it away and putting XP SP3 on it. I hate the Control panel on Vista. It took me several clicks to find “add/remove programs. I guess they tried to idiot proof the system but didn’t keep in mind the users that started with DOS 1.2. After 10 years, why did they change basic menus functionality so drastically. To print documents, it takes multiple clicks. To navigate on Windows Explorer is painful. My son has blown his Vista away on his Dell XPS and has gone back to a dual boot XP and Linux. His goal is to learn Linux so he can do away with Windows OS in the future. His brother is 100% on Linux. I bought him a laptop and before I had left New Hampshire, my son had blown away the Vista and installed Ubunta.
I haven’t interfaced or used any of the remote control apps for my radios yet. I wonder what Vista does with them. I won’t know because I will still be on Win 2000 and XP for the next decade… (At work I will be testing Windows 7)
Now this looks interesting… Apple Keyboard-Less Laptop
