Re: Vista: when your time is free

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:12:22 +0100, Hadron wrote:

> Richard Rasker <> writes:
>
>> Today I saw yet more proof that Vista is a slow, bloated hog, beaten easily
>> by even an ancient Linux machine.
>>
>> I took a train ride to a customer of mine, and brought my old laptop
>> computer, an eight-year-old Acer TravelMate 515TE, with a 300MHz Intel
>> Pentium II CPU and 256MB of RAM. As I sat down and booted it, a girl who
>> took a seat one row ahead also fired up her laptop -- a brand new Dell,
>> suffering from Vista by the looks of it.
>
> Who the hell would use something like that as a professional?
>
>>
>> And even though my old machine takes 3,5 minutes to fully boot into KDE,
>> with OpenOffice taking another 35 seconds for first start, I was
>> already
>
> LOL.
>
>> working on a document when her machine was finally ready for use. And when
>> I say "ready for use" I mean that she could start clicking away several
>> notices and warnings. The HD light was busy for at least another minute,
>> and even MS Office seemed sluggish, from what I could see from my
>> place.
>
> Please go read Ubuntu group for people having long start times with
> Linux too.
>
>>
>> So I asked her politely about her machine, and how she liked it. Her answer
>> confirmed every prejudice I have about Vista:
>
> As she pressed the "rape" button and sprayed your eyes with Mace I bet ....
>
>> "It sucks. It sucks bigtime. I've got it for eight months now, and the first
>> few months it sucked because half the things I tried installing wouldn't
>> work -- although it ran at least at sort of an acceptable speed -- and
>> after that it sucked because it slowed down to a crawl. I brought it
>> back
>
> A woman saying "sucks" to you must have caused a disturbance....
>
>> to the store to have XP installed, but they said it couldn't be done,
>> because there were no XP drivers for this thing. Also, I was expected to
>> pay another $100 or so for XP. And oh yeah, they offered to 'clean up' the
>> machine to make it go faster -- also for $100. But from what I heard, it
>> doesn't help for long."
>
> This is the most made up convoluted rubbish ever. Who do you think
> you're kidding?
>
>> And when I asked why she still put up with it:
>> "Hell, I'm not gonna dump an almost brand new $1000 machine. Besides, I
>> can't get a decent XP machine any more. So I hope that this mess will be
>> sorted out in time. But it's a major pain. A lot of the time, I'm waiting
>> for the machine to finish one thing or other."
>
> Hilarious - it wreaks of bullshit.
>
>>
>> When I showed her my Linux machine, she was amazed, especially as its
>
> All 12 inches of it?
>
>> performance was almost comparable with her machine -- which, by the way,
>> featured a dual-core 1,66GHZ CPU and 2GB of RAM. Yes, that's right folks!
>> This Vista crapware takes well over four minutes to boot, is noticeably
>> sluggish overall, and guzzles some twenty times the system resources of my
>> old laptop machine running Linux + KDE for a roughly comparable
>> performance.
>> And this is your everyday user, who installed perhaps a dozen or so
>> applications, not some computer freak who swamps the machine with hundreds
>> of applications and services, all configured to start at boot time.
>>
>> Really, it's amazing what people put up with ...
>>
>> Richard Rasker
>
> It's amazing you expect people to believe your tall tales, thats for sure!

I wonder if Richard is a Kelsey protégé ?

That whopper of a tale tops even most of what Kelsey posts when she is on
one of her "Windows ruined my life" binges.

Here's how you can tell the Linux Freak is lying BTW:

1. His machine is totally, completely obsolete. IOW the most extreme far
end of the spectrum from the Windows machine. This is done on purpose.

2. He strikes up a conversation with a girl.

3. Ladies don't typically use the word *sucks* in normal conversation.
Especially with a stranger.

4. ...and just about everything else he said.

You're not making Kelsey proud Richard


--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
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On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:03:09 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:12:22 +0100, Hadron wrote:
>
>> Richard Rasker <> writes:
>>
>>> Today I saw yet more proof that Vista is a slow, bloated hog, beaten
>>> easily by even an ancient Linux machine.
>>>
>>> I took a train ride to a customer of mine, and brought my old laptop
>>> computer, an eight-year-old Acer TravelMate 515TE, with a 300MHz Intel
>>> Pentium II CPU and 256MB of RAM. As I sat down and booted it, a girl
>>> who took a seat one row ahead also fired up her laptop -- a brand new
>>> Dell, suffering from Vista by the looks of it.
>>
>> Who the hell would use something like that as a professional?
>>
>>
>>> And even though my old machine takes 3,5 minutes to fully boot into
>>> KDE, with OpenOffice taking another 35 seconds for first start, I was
>>> already
>>
>> LOL.
>>
>>> working on a document when her machine was finally ready for use. And
>>> when I say "ready for use" I mean that she could start clicking away
>>> several notices and warnings. The HD light was busy for at least
>>> another minute, and even MS Office seemed sluggish, from what I could
>>> see from my place.
>>
>> Please go read Ubuntu group for people having long start times with
>> Linux too.
>>
>>
>>> So I asked her politely about her machine, and how she liked it. Her
>>> answer confirmed every prejudice I have about Vista:
>>
>> As she pressed the "rape" button and sprayed your eyes with Mace I bet
>> ....
>>
>>> "It sucks. It sucks bigtime. I've got it for eight months now, and the
>>> first few months it sucked because half the things I tried installing
>>> wouldn't work -- although it ran at least at sort of an acceptable
>>> speed -- and after that it sucked because it slowed down to a crawl. I
>>> brought it back
>>
>> A woman saying "sucks" to you must have caused a disturbance....
>>
>>> to the store to have XP installed, but they said it couldn't be done,
>>> because there were no XP drivers for this thing. Also, I was expected
>>> to pay another $100 or so for XP. And oh yeah, they offered to 'clean
>>> up' the machine to make it go faster -- also for $100. But from what I
>>> heard, it doesn't help for long."
>>
>> This is the most made up convoluted rubbish ever. Who do you think
>> you're kidding?
>>
>>> And when I asked why she still put up with it: "Hell, I'm not gonna
>>> dump an almost brand new $1000 machine. Besides, I can't get a decent
>>> XP machine any more. So I hope that this mess will be sorted out in
>>> time. But it's a major pain. A lot of the time, I'm waiting for the
>>> machine to finish one thing or other."
>>
>> Hilarious - it wreaks of bullshit.
>>
>>
>>> When I showed her my Linux machine, she was amazed, especially as its
>>
>> All 12 inches of it?
>>
>>> performance was almost comparable with her machine -- which, by the
>>> way, featured a dual-core 1,66GHZ CPU and 2GB of RAM. Yes, that's
>>> right folks! This Vista crapware takes well over four minutes to boot,
>>> is noticeably sluggish overall, and guzzles some twenty times the
>>> system resources of my old laptop machine running Linux + KDE for a
>>> roughly comparable performance.
>>> And this is your everyday user, who installed perhaps a dozen or so
>>> applications, not some computer freak who swamps the machine with
>>> hundreds of applications and services, all configured to start at boot
>>> time.
>>>
>>> Really, it's amazing what people put up with ...
>>>
>>> Richard Rasker
>>
>> It's amazing you expect people to believe your tall tales, thats for
>> sure!
>
> I wonder if Richard is a Kelsey protégé ?
>
> That whopper of a tale tops even most of what Kelsey posts when she is
> on one of her "Windows ruined my life" binges.
>
> Here's how you can tell the Linux Freak is lying BTW:
>
> 1. His machine is totally, completely obsolete. IOW the most extreme far
> end of the spectrum from the Windows machine. This is done on purpose.
>
> 2. He strikes up a conversation with a girl.
>
> 3. Ladies don't typically use the word *sucks* in normal conversation.
> Especially with a stranger.
>

But just look at the provocation. A lady has found that she has been sold
a really *bad* operating system for a lot of her hard earned cash. What's
so hard about understanding that she is not a happy camper?

> 4. ...and just about everything else he said.
>
> You're not making Kelsey proud Richard