Why is vista so lacking in features? (aka Ubuntu is gorgeous)
I’ve just been given a lovely new pc at work which i’ve formatted and chucked ubuntu on - I haven’t used linux properly in a few years but now im doing 99% PHP5 development figured I’d have a go at running a pure linux desktop machine
Oh my what a suprise, ubuntu boots up onto a nice live cd for you to play with and make sure you’re hardware is compatible with it all first before you even click install. Network was working, all my hardware, everything straight from a 600mb CD…
So I click install - it sets the drive up perfectly, takes 3 minutes and I have a full OS..
Graphically looks gorgeous, fonts are smooth and pleasing to the eye much like using OSX
And spaces…. how have I lived my life without desktop spaces. I have komodo open in one and the dev site open in firefox on the other.. switching between them is heaven
Then the other 2 spaces I have one remote desktop’d into my home vista pc (LOL) and the other full of personal sites (gmail etc..)
How can microsoft spend years writing vista and not include multiple desktops? Hell if you run a multiple monitor setup it doesnt even allow you to put the task bar on both screens *sigh*
Ubuntu is sooo fast, everything just works straight away.. all the packages are free.. I just dont understand why anyone would buy windows these days
Yes you dont get games on linux, but hell thats why I bought an xbox 360 isnt it!
Vista SP1 might fix the MANY bugs in vista (why does it take forever to copy simple small files?) but I will one night next weekend be formatting my pc at home for ubuntu install
Comments
Comment from Fuzzy Orange
Time February 5, 2008 at 9:58 am
Very strange dude
I have a dell vostro 200 pc at work - 2gb of ram, dual core.. but only cost about £200
Ubuntu installs easily, all hardware is detected out of the box (although I do believe dell ship these machines with ubuntu as an option - so that might be why)
I’ve got to the point where I look forward to getting into work with my 4 virtual desktops, nice looking GUI (without using half the memory of the machine), and the whole thing “just works” for 9 hours a day… Go home and sit in front of vista and wonder why it takes 35 minutes to copy a file onto my usb pen lol
Maybe SP1 will sort vista out - guess we’ll see in a month or 2
Comment from Sensible man
Time May 23, 2008 at 12:50 pm
What is the pos peugot crap all about, get a life
Comment from Fuzzy Orange
Time May 23, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Ahhh thankyou for such a well thought out comment
I see you chose a Vista/Ubuntu debate to leave a comment about Peugeots
How is glasgow this time of year mate?
Comment from Captain Yoinksac
Time January 31, 2008 at 12:35 pm
It didn’t ‘just work’ for me dude, apparently my Graphics card is “too new” so it looked total pony (followed some guides on their forums but that made matters worse and i had to start from scratch), my sound card isn’t supported without a lot of fucking about (Creative :S - did get it working in the end though) and upon installation it proceeded to fuck up all my partitions. Good job it was a HDD i didnt care about.
I’m not saying Vista is anything other than utter shit, but Ubuntu isn’t ready for the masses until hardware manufacturers sort their shit out and start supporting it. Until then i’ll be sticking with my nice cut down version of XP Pro which hasnt failed me (or slowed down) in 6 months now