So I’ve had a bunch of stuff to do on a friend’s computer and he’s got this Windows Vista which I refuse to put on my computer just on principle and based on the horrific reviews it got in the tech press.
What a nightmare that thing is. It’s like it was invented by a bunch of ultra-paranoid security agency freaks locked in a super secret facility smoking crystal meth 24 hours a day. Every 10 seconds a new popup appears asking for permission for this and that and then there’s all these warnings like the world is coming to an end or something.
For what should have taken about 20 minutes with an install and some tweaks (ha and I use the word tweaks knowingly you bunch of Frankensteining programmers!) took like 3 hours and stuff still didn’t work right.
I was just hooking up his new mobile phone so he could sync stuff and load music and that and every time the program had to go to the internet or access any system resources these lazy popups appeared. What I mean by lazy popups is they took forever to appear (and hey its quite a new computer so don’t blame the hardware).
All the fade-in and fade-out and fancy graphics took all the cpu time up and the programs hardly run. And those stupid widgets are such a waste of space on the desktop. I killed them all along with most of the crap in start up and any other cpu-hogging stuff I could find.
No wonder they are pushing Windows 7 up schedule-wise. I even read some quote in the paper today that Windows Vista was “wildly popular”. Of course this quote was from a corporate exec so what do you expect.
Give me back Windows 3.1. I could hack the whole thing the way I wanted and it was EASY. I shouldn’t have to have 14 university degrees in computer engineering to move a couple of songs from a computer to a mobile phone. Pullleeeez!
