Comments on: After a Month in Vista, This Pretty Much Sums Up My Feelings About Operating Systems

By: George Truong

George Truong — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:36:03 +0000

Props for using Hard Gay! Hard Gay… fuuuuu!!! LOL.

By: Farhan Thawar

Farhan Thawar — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:29:50 +0000

I would agree with you (since I just left Microsoft and could easily start bashing Vista) but I won’t.

In my opinion (although it’s the unfavourable one) Vista is the Queen of the Pigs (all the OS’s pretty much suck, yes including Leopard, but Vista is the best of them).

Leopard crashes on my Macbook constantly, Boot Camp assistant doesn’t work two times in a row (try it. You have to reboot), opening 5-7 tabs in FF or Safari in Leopard basically hangs my 4 month old Macbook.

I don’t think Vista is great, but it actually works unlike Leopard in my opinion. How do you even see your wireless connection speed in Leopard?

By: Doctress Julia

Doctress Julia — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:32:48 +0000

Hard Gay, hoooooooo!!

By: Tris Hussey

Tris Hussey — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:34:02 +0000

Now I can’t wait for the follow up post.

While I don’t hate Vista, I certaily wouldn’t recommend it over XP. Not having using OS X much at all or Linux (tempting as it may be) I don’t know what I’m missing.

Maybe that’s a good thing.

By: Jeremy Wright

Jeremy Wright — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:42:15 +0000

Want a macbook air? ;-0

By: mike rotenberg

mike rotenberg — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:08:40 +0000

If you miss QuickSilver, try Launchy.

By: David Crow

David Crow — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:06:04 +0000

Joey I understand your pain. The lack of familiarity is what is killing me. I’m finding that there are solutions they just aren’t the ones I’m familiar with, i.e., command line tools and bash scripts. And when a big chunk of your life is in ssh, sftp, bash and other tools it’s difficult to move.

There’s tools like:

* cygwin – http://cygwin.com/
* PuTTY – http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
* WinSCP – http://winscp.net/eng/index.php

I’m finding that there are tools like Live Writer that I really appreciate. And I’ve pushed a lot of my life to the cloud. Other tools might as well be identical: Firefox 3.0b5 = same. IE8b1 is nice. Skype = same. Pidgin or Miranda for IM, they’re not Adium but they’re close enough.

I miss the shell support. And I miss Quicksilver.

But my salary is paid for by Microsoft. So I’m incented to at least try to like it.

By: Joey deVilla

Joey deVilla — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:40:32 +0000

@docm2b: Yeah, it’s a transition from using MacOS as my primary operating system. There are a lot of things that annoy me about the Toshiba, not all of which are Vista’s fault; there’s also the matter of missing good old familiar Unix command-line stuff. The DOS window just doesn’t cut it, and I’m still feeling my way around PowerShell.

By: docm2b

docm2b — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:35:34 +0000

dude….now THAT is some funny shite….it’ll be okay….it soundss like its a transition from a mac for u?……