Thursday, August 21, 2008
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Vista Pains
I really wanted to like Vista. When I got my Thinkpad X61 Tablet, it came with Vista installed by default. Ignoring the negative Vista press and applying wild optimism, I was sure that this is the beginning of a wonderful friendship. Unfortunately, this was not meant to be. Not only that Vista crashes left and right, it is always somebody else's fault: "Problem is caused by Intel Graphics Driver", "Problem is caused by Cygwin", and my all time favorite "This problem is being researched".
The utility may be called "Solve problems on your computer", but in the several months I had Vista, it did not help me find a solution to a single problem. All it really does is allocate blame, elsewhere.
To see how bad things are, here's a report from the performance and reliability monitor.
As you can see by the red markers, almost no day goes by without some sort of a failure. In some days, there are multiple failures. I already started booting to my Ubuntu on most days, but even for my sparse use of windows, I will probably roll back to XP soon.
The utility may be called "Solve problems on your computer", but in the several months I had Vista, it did not help me find a solution to a single problem. All it really does is allocate blame, elsewhere.
To see how bad things are, here's a report from the performance and reliability monitor.
As you can see by the red markers, almost no day goes by without some sort of a failure. In some days, there are multiple failures. I already started booting to my Ubuntu on most days, but even for my sparse use of windows, I will probably roll back to XP soon.
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