Comments on: Windows Vista is a Better Choice than Linux

By: Landho

Landho — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:13:18 +0000

Vista, after a week, really sucks. Microsoft does other things that are not friendly, but vista is really not friendly. What do they have to gain from Windows Mail for christs sake.

All takes time to go a new direction but will find the time soon.
really really po’d on this one.

By: eilios

eilios — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:40:38 +0000

Is this a parody? Most, if not all of the “points” brought up here are wrong.

By: Sacx

Sacx — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:37:06 +0000

I think the old Linux motto is fitting here perfectly:

Linux is user friendly, its just very selective of its friends.

Regards

By: MB

MB — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:00:05 +0000

This is just silly. Is it a parody? I think so because it is hard to believe you are serious.

I bought a new Sony laptop which had Vista pre-installed. It was so slow I couldn’t believe it. I wiped the drive and installed Fedora. What a huge difference in performance!

I have a web site where I sell photographs. I do heavy-duty photo editing on Fedora using GIMP, Cinepaint, UFraw, imagemagick, etc. It saves me hundreds of dollars not to have to buy commercial software, and the client doesn’t know the difference.

When my 70-year-old mom wanted a laptop, I gave her an old Dell Inspiron running Fedora. It works great and she has no trouble using it for email, web surfing, etc. The machine was barely useable with Windows because Windows is too bloated for old hardware.

By: Ghost|BOFH

Ghost|BOFH — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:32:58 +0000

I’d like to take this time to review a new operating system I decided to try recently:

Windows Vista.

At first blush, it seemed to be quite the smooth operator for installation, although there were times when it just seemed to lock up and do absolutely nothing for 10-20 minutes and then suddenly start up again. Also, I noticed upon boot up that some of my hardware was NOT detected! Uh-oh, bad sign there…but I’m strong, I’ll muddle through. Apparently the issue is the “driver” for the hardware, and Microsoft not thinking ahead to make drivers that would be compatible with their OS from the start.

Fortunately it appears the manufacturers are aware of MS’s shortcomings and have provided their own drivers on their websites!

Sadly, this didn’t help me much when one of the drivers was for my NETWORK CARD! (Hello! Microsoft, are you listening? Can’t get these “drivers” if you can’t get online!) Then I found out that the network card I had (which was a very reliable card, mind you) wasn’t supported! Imagine my chagrin when I had to go to the store and buy a replacement just to make this stupid operating system work!

Arrrggghhhh!!!

But finally, everything installed and “drivered” I was able to surf the internet fairly well, although after a few stops at my local favorite “adult” sites, the computer started responding way slower for some reason. Huh.

Anyhow, onto installation of programs! Yay!

So, I grab my old Amiga games and popped in the floppy.

Windows can’t even read it! It doesn’t even know what to DO with these files!!!

I just spent $450 for the ULTIMATE edition, and it can’t even play simple Amiga games? WTF?

Well fine, let’s try something else then, maybe Amiga software just isn’t it’s “thing”. So I pop in a copy of Adobe Photoshop (from my Mac) and…

Nothing.

The disc isn’t even READABLE!!!

WTF Microsoft?

Sadly, this continued on with various other software until I finally had enough. I found out later on that apparently only software that is “Windows compatible” can be installed on the operating system.

Wow, sure would have been nice to know THAT little gem before wasting $450.

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The above is a parody. If you take offense to it, you should – it is a mirror held up for you to see your own stupidity.

Please go out back now and shoot yourself.

Cheers,
Ghost|BOFH

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 19 May 2009 23:26:38 +0000

Oh dear author. Who hasn’t used a linux distro recently? Unfortunately, other than software compatibility, you’re wrong on virtually every point and you’ve thus blown your credibility from the off.

Worse is that you’re blaming Linux for not being able to run Windows software. Hmmm. Could your NES run Atari VCS games? I thought not. Hardly a fault of the OS. You also fail to mention that many of the alternatives for windows programs are not only free on Linux but at least equal to, if not better than, their Windows counterparts.

If you *were* an ‘avid computer user’ you certainly wouldn’t be pushing Vista. Even MS employees have been blogging on how disappointed they’ve been with it, and Microsoft’s recent push with the Windows 7 beta pretty much confirms how rubbish the OS is.

Sorry, but you have no credibility.

By: wtf

wtf — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:40:43 +0000

this is a joke right?

By: Chowder

Chowder — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:34:18 +0000

Everything chris pirillo says is garbage. His show is a freaking snooze fest. Why not test Vista against a custom built archlinux system? Most Linux users have only things they need running while Windows comes with all this bloat and unecessary services running by default.
Linux is not a windows replacement. I mean, the writer of this article is crying because he can’t find a neatly packed .exe to install XYZ program.
In terms of bugs: Windows has a plethora. As for Linux, a bug is nothing when you have thousands of Linux users constantly looking for bugs and security holes.
Hardware compatibility: So you’re blaming an entire operating system because big companies don’t want to write drivers for it?! GTFO.

By: Rohil

Rohil — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:21:54 +0000

I don’t wish to go into useless rubbish, but the writer of the article clearly doesn’t know what he is talking about and is stupidly preaching VIsta no matter what ( even with earlier versions of Windows).

There are way too many points which he has overlooked/misunderstood and I am sure earlier comments would have done justice pointing at.

Would take this article with a pinch of salt.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:19:09 +0000

I think that linux is better than windows vista because windows vista is vunerable to viruses. That isn’t the main problem though, because you have to install anti-virus, and this hogs loads of resources on your pc and slows it down completely. Linux allows you to run pretty much most of your windows applications if you use Wine. It can be a little buggy but it works. Open office is good as a Microsoft Office replacement. Plus, windows vista costs like $200 and linux costs $0. In my opinion, linux all the way.

By: Saadi

Saadi — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 05:38:53 +0000

Windows is a resource eater but Linux is not. I can do anything with a linux operating system such as use it as a server for free ETC ETC. I can’t do all this with vista. Moreover, with linux u get to know how ur computer works. With windows u can’t do tht.

By: coder

coder — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:36:36 +0000

you are correct windows vista better than any linux distribution

By: A99

A99 — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:37:55 +0000

Just-installed vista was eating ~600 MB of my RAM
Linux – 200 mb.
And, vista was NOT running Aero, but linux WAS running compiz!
So bye vista, my EeePC has only 512mb, and i don’t want to set up swap partition.

By: Greyed

Greyed — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:09:22 +0000

As Chris just pointed out he didn’t write the article. Mea Culpa for missing the header. He is correct and I will be adjusting my rebuttal accordingly. My sincerest apologies to Chris for my mistake.

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