Bad Vista
Found a great blog post extolling the virtues of Linux, describing quite succinctly why it is better than Windows. And since I could probably do no better myself I’m just going to link to it. Nice one Dan Martin.
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I randomly discovered the BadVista.org web site last night. A site dedicated to shining a big bright light on all of Vista’s failings and chuckling quietly as companies like Dell and even US Government agencies abandon it. They have their own logo already, of course, but the phrase “Bad Vista. No Biscuit.” immediately sprang into my mind, probably Cleodhna’s fault – she was once planning to put her dog in a t-shirt that said “Bad Prime Minister. No Biscuit.” and take it to an anti-war march. The result is some re-gimping of their logo to what you see on the left. I also did an American “Bad Vista. No Cookie.” version. Both of these are released under the Free Art License.
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So my cute wee Apple iBook G4 died and I’ve had to get a new machine. It keeps having segmentation faults, the poor thing, and I’m pretty sure that the RAM is busted.
The speed at which I needed to get some sort of replacement ramped up the agenda today as I’ve managed to break my third laptop from work in as many weeks. Result: New Laptop, which has arrived with Vista installed – since there was no choice but to get it!
The thing reboots three times during the Vista Startup Experience which takes bloody ages. I can’t find any thing on the start menu. The old hot key shortcuts bring up random different stuff. Internet Explorer doesn’t seem to work with my work’s (MS Exchange driven) webmail. It is very flashy but not particularly shiny, if you know what I mean.
So I’m putting it to good use by downloading and burning the Ubuntu 7 Beta, I may then even attempt to get the thing working in a Xen environment if I’m feeling keen.
And there you have it, download complete. I’ve seen it, I’ve used it, I didn’t like it.
Veni, Vidi, Invisio.
Sorry if you are getting bored with this particular meme, but two interesting articles on the subject of Vista’s failings have come to light. I’ve covereda this twice before but there is more and more material out there on the web backing up my point.
Firstly Alex St. John, CEO of WildTangent a game publishing house and veteran of Microsoft where he developed the first ever DirectX, explains that ‘Vista Casts A Pall On PC Gaming’ as it’s security model makes downloading and running games very difficult. This all asside from the DRM-induced difficulties I spoke about before.
Secondly Microsoft has admitted that many PCs will be unable to replay HD-DVDs because the OS will disable this feature to comply with DRM. The Times Online Business section is carrying the story.
