Steve Bass recently touted the video embedded below as a humorous example of the response Windows Vista has garnered. My own experience with Vista has been on computers of folks wanting to “downgrade” to XP, so it pretty much mirrors the views expressed in the video (Warning to neo-victorian prissie wusses–some vulgarity* included in the video):
*for those who cannot differentiate between vulgarity, obscenity and profanity, well, *sigh*, such folks are, I fear, beyond hope…
Trusted you enough on this one to turn off my usually-muted sound effects (yeah, makes it easier to resist and keeps me from drawing curious co-workers into the office). Laughed ’til I cried. “DCS” – BWAHAHAHA. It would be absolutely hysterical…but for the fact that it’s also totally true.
I’ve finally got my XP where I want it … they’ll have to drag my dead body into Vista.
“I’ve finally got my XP where I want it…”
Yeh, me too: on computers I hardly ever use. 🙂 *heh* Just nuked XP OFF one of my desktop computers a few weeks ago. Sits right next to the comp I’m using to type this and usually runs Puppy Linux.
(Win2KPro is “good enough” for Windows, IMO. And several different Linux distros and PC-BSD are all even better, for the most part. *sigh* There are still a few programs I absolutely must have that don’t work in WINE, though.)
Great little video; should win some kind of an award.
I was looking for a replacement laptop this past year until I found that they all had Vista operating systems which would not be compatible with the specialty programs I have now. I then found that a new laptop that was set up with XP was considerably higher in price and had to be special ordered.
I decided to live with my antique laptop which still works with ME; I know, a real dino-unit, still works though.
TF,
I hear ya. I’ll keep some Windoze comps around (and probably will for the foreseeable future) until and unless WINE (or another solution) works well with my music transcription software and one lil indispensible graphics program.
But more and more, I find WINE doing a pretty good job running Windows software on Linux.