First of all, let me start by saying that I hate Windows. I really truly do. It's filled with viruses and backdoor trojans, and the privacy issue! (I bet some of you out there still don't know that Windows actually does that!) And let's not forget the force download of its Windows Update. (They automatically download god-knows-what-shit that takes up a lot of memory space, installed it without your knowledge, and then ask you to restart your pc.)I was never a fan of Windows. But I have no choice because all PCs out there uses Windows and the amount of programs written for Windows is much higher than for any other operating systems. (Of course, that was then. Now there are tons of software out there for all sorts of OSes)
When Windows releases Windows ME, it was no doubt the worse OS ever written in computer history. It crashes all the time, your PC hangs, etc. So when XP was released, it became an instant hit: faster start-up time, more stable than and pretty user friendly too! With XP being so useful, I really don't see why Windows wanna fuck things up by releasing another crap OS. This time it came in the form of Windows Vista.
Vista. Even before it was released, people out there are already making a lot of noise. For exmaple: It is a rip off of Apple OS' user interface, and how Vista is a demanding motherfucker! For those of you who are so blur and haven't noticed this, Windows Vista actually requires at least 1 GB of system memory (which a lot of gamers are going: 'what the fuck?!') and a 40GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space (do you know how much porn you can store with that amount of memory space?) With those absurd requirements, a lot of people, when purchasing their PC, would request the dealers to install Windows XP for them rather than Vista. But as all of you know, all new PC now automatically comes with Windows Vista. Since I see no good reason for me to move away from XP, when I went wanted to purchase my VAIO months back, I told the daeler that I wanted XP installed into my PC. It was then that I found out that if I downgrade the OS to XP, it would void my warranty. Great, so now Windows have to resort to threat in order to get people to use their OS?!Fine. If that's the case, I guess I'll just have to cope with it for a year, right?
The minute I got home and start up my pc, I noticed that the OS actually takes up fuck load of my computer's memory space! And now, after months of getting stuck with something I didn't want in the first place, here's my verdict:
1. The start up time is no doubt slower than XP. No biggie there, all you need to do is wait an extra minute.
2. The requirement of "40GB hard drive with at least 15GB of available space" is no joke. If you partition the drive into two, you would notice that the minimum you need to have for the drive hosting your Vista OS is 55GB. The reason is because Vista hogs up 40GB of the memory space, and since it needs ANOTHER 15GB free space: 40GB + 15GB = 55GB! But there's more...
Since normal computer comes with not much software installed, your 120GB drive which is partitioned in two would now have about: 55GB on Drive C and about 50GB in Drive X. (Just a rough estimation as some system files eats up the rest of the remaining memory space.) Okay, so you got a new pc with no software, what do you do? Install new software!
3. New software takes up space. And remember the requirement of Vista? It needs 55GB! Anytime that your memory space on the drive hosting Vista drops below "15 GB of available space", ladies and gentlemen, your computer will slow down. And when I say slow, I mean drastically slow. Something that you can notice the obvious difference! So what can you do now? You will need to install the new programs in Drive X, which means, lesser working memory space for you to use! But it gets more interesting.
4. All PC have something call "antivirus". As Vista needs 1GB RAM to function NORMALLY. Everytime your antivirus starts doing a full system scan, you can't do anything else. Your computer wil slow down even more obviously now. (Response time drop from the usual almost-instant to wait-at-least-15-seconds.) Worse part is, you can't stop the virus scan like how you can do it in XP, because Vista hides the scanner, thus making it compulsory to scan your entire PC and impossible to shut the scanner down. In other words, you lose control of your PC!
But that's not the only thing you lose control of! As I mentioned earlier, with XP, you already loses control over your privacy info. Your OS is set to automatically send out information about your PC usage to Microsoft and it automatically downloads god-knows-what-shit that takes up a lot of memory space, installed it without your knowledge, and then ask you to restart your pc. With Vista it's the same deal but with a difference.
5. With every update, you can see what is available for update if you choose the manual update. But even those updates you DO NOT select, or choose to ignore, if Microsoft thinks it's important, they will still install it into your pc even if you say no! (Showing you that they own your PC now. Not you!)
6. Oh wait, remember the memory space thingy in Item 2 and 3? If in the event that after your updates, your partitioned Drive C has less than 15GB free space, your computer would slow down! So now, after the update, you will need to move more free space back into Drive C! Yay! Lesser memory space for the user!
If even after all those things I've said, you still think that Windows Vista is good, wait till you hear this.
7. For so many years of PC usage, I have never experienced this. Maybe it's because I never came into contact with Windows ME. I've heard and learned about this when I was studying Computer Science in college but never have I experienced it. After less than 4 months of using Windows Vista, I finally met the Blue Screen of Death! Not once, but twice!!!
For those of you who don't know what the heck that is, Blue Screen of Death (or BSoD) is where a stop error screen that appears when an OS, most frequently and notably Windows, encounters what is said to be a critical system error which can cause the system to shut down to prevent damage. If you look the definition up in Wikipedia, you will find that BSoD is usually caused by "poorly written device drivers, faulty memory, a corrupt registry, or an incompatible Dynamic-link library (DLL)" and that the BSoD have been present in ALL Windows-based operating systems since Windows 3.1! That's how stable and well-written Windows is! - jessism © 26012008 -
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