Re:Vista Is Good
by trevelyan on Wednesday May 28, 2008 @03:43AM
(#201874)
I bought a new Fujitsu laptop that came preloaded with Vista. Technically the machine is no slouch.
Right-clicking on the network button to open a network connection reults in a grey box loading and hanging on the page for 10 seconds or so before it disappears. At that point you can click on the exact same icon and have a list of options, one of which is "Open Network Connection". Clicking on that results in another 10 second wait, after which a list of possible networks to connects to opens up.
Either one of those waits would be permissable if Windows really needed to check if the network existed (doesn't take that long under Ubuntu though....). But both? And for the system to show nothing but plain grey boxes?
Frankly, I don't find the OS particularly usable for anything except Photoshop. And I'll be getting around to installing Wine soon.
Right-clicking on the network button to open a network connection reults in a grey box loading and hanging on the page for 10 seconds or so before it disappears. At that point you can click on the exact same icon and have a list of options, one of which is "Open Network Connection". Clicking on that results in another 10 second wait, after which a list of possible networks to connects to opens up.
Either one of those waits would be permissable if Windows really needed to check if the network existed (doesn't take that long under Ubuntu though....). But both? And for the system to show nothing but plain grey boxes?
Frankly, I don't find the OS particularly usable for anything except Photoshop. And I'll be getting around to installing Wine soon.