Apr 10 2009
How the other 90% live
I bought a new laptop yesterday, and I haven’t changed the OS yet. I’ve been doing some things inside Vista since last night. (I downloaded the Ubuntu 9.04 ISO and tried to burn it to CD. Found out Vista has no capacity to burn ISOs. Only learned this after it had tried to burn the ISO as a file to my blank CD. So that’s another coaster I’ve created due to useless user interface and completely inappropriate default behaviour.)
If I had bought this machine to use as-is I would be quite disappointed. It took about 45 minutes to set up with nearly no interaction from me — just repeated restarts and long periods of blank screen. The machine is so full of useless rubbish that it consumes 2GB of RAM and has about a dozen systray icons (all waving their little bubble notifications at me) at startup. McAfee just informed me that I had to restart the machine just after I turned it on this morning. Excuse me, whose machine is this?
No wonder people hate computers.
Ah Vista… I think they made it with the sole purpose of testing the limits of our patience.
Time to format this drive… I’m sure Helen can burn you the necessary disky