Yesterday I managed to get hold of a copy of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and although it is a beta, I could not stop myself installing it.
After an hour or so of installing and repeated restarts (about 6 restarts) I managed to get to the login screen and boy I was in for a surprise. I was actually pleased, although it was already too late to thoroughly test it.
The first impression was of … quietness. Yes, it was quiet, my hard-drive was not spinning maddly as before and the OS seemed to be in a meditation state. The application started smoothly and the responsiveness of the start menu surprised me.
What didn’t work at first was the IIS websites but this was because the “World Wide Web Publishing Service” was stopped by the SP1 install.
I cannot contain myself and tell something: the error messages from Vista are actually helping you. I have to get used to read the errror messages because so far they were thorough and accurate and they offer sollutions as well (I cannot say this about XP).
I will dig a little deeper today into the SP1 and come back with some thoughts. Till then …
Cheers.
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Sweet dude, just one thing: Ubuntu 7.04 installs in about 20-30 minutes and requires a single restart and it works out of the box (well in most cases
).
Well, no-one disputes the strengths of Ubuntu, but I have to take into account a serious factor when comparing the two technologies. I cannot run any of my applications on Ubuntu, beside FireFox
While I believe that is true in some cases like Visual Studio, there are Linux alternatives for most common applications a user might need (even .NET
). Check out this site: http://www.osalt.com – you might find some interesting things in there.