[ale] [OT] Mojave Experiment

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

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Well considering I got my first taste of Vista recently trying to help a
friend get their internet connectivity issues resolved. It was on a
laptop with 2GB of RAM and it was dog-arse slow. Any system that
requires more than that just to be useful is ridiculous in my opinion.
I've got my laptop which also has 2GB RAM and a slower processor than
his and I'm running Fedora 9 with Debian 4 and Windows XP Professional
as virtual machines and get better performance than his Vista laptop.

Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> Atlanta Geek wrote:
>> If anyone is interested microsoft has a new site up @
>> http://www.mojaveexperiment.com to combat preconceived ideas on Vista
>> The most interesting aspect of this for me was that they used Flash to
>> do it as opposed to Microsoft's product 'Silverlight'.
>> Maybe I just find this interesting because some of the marketing guys
>> who found out I was using adobe flex in our product are asking me why
>> we don't use Microsoft's Silverlight.
>>
> 
> I KNOW this is a Linux mailing list, but...
> 
> What are some of the reasons why YOU don't like vista.
> 
> Leaving out, it's from Microsoft, no reason for an upgrade just yet, etc.
> 
> Personally I think it's resource requirements are too high.
> A gig of ram not enough?  What are they smoking?
> 256Meg video card minimum for aero?  What?!  There is nothing in vista 
> that have impressed upon me the need to have so much video card memory.
> I've seen distributions like Sabayon do close to video miracles with 
> little more than a video frame buffer and not nearly as much as far as ram.
> 
> It's slow!  Don't give me it's not perceivably slower.  It's has the 
> same sluggish feel that visual studio has (.net seems to be the root 
> cause).  I hear people argue that it's faster than XP in some instances 
> on the same hardware.  I generally ask people who say that to step back 
> and think about what they are saying.  How can you possibly think that 
> an OS with several times more data in memory and on disk could possibly 
> be faster?  Did it include a CPU speed multiplier?  Your CPU will still 
> process the same amount of ips.
> 
> Incompatibility? Really a strawman.  I've since wanted them to stop 
> being directly backwards compatible.  Any old programs can be run in 
> some kind of sandbox, vm.  Wine for windows?
> 
> Security?  I guess you can call it that...
> 
> Anyway what are your reasons for dislike.
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