Some of you may remember my rather infuriated article about all of the retards who hate Vista, you can
read it here if you didn't get a chance to check it out when I posted it almost a year ago.
Apparently, "real" journalists (lawl I'm a blogger!) have finally gotten on that bandwagon as well.
"XP is not something that needs to be "saved," as if it were some architectural triumph in need of historic preservation. It's not an Old Post Office or a Union Station; it's more like that crummy midfield terminal at Dulles International Airport, a once-serviceable structure that outlived its utility years ago."You can read Rob Pegoraro's article
here.
Anyway, reading his article just got me even more irritated that over a FUCKING YEAR has gone by, and people are still bitching about Vista. Fucking morons, all of them.
Seriously, this anti-Vista crap needs to stop. I'm so sick of hearing customers at work rant and rave about how "Vista is soooo buggy" as if... it actually were. There is hardly a damned thing at all wrong with Vista, especially compared to XP when it initially released. XP was buggier than an abandoned shack in butt-fuck Egypt for nearly TWO YEARS after launch, and people are hailing it as if it were the best operating system ever made. I guaran-fucking-tee you that the very same people talking about how "XP will never be replaced" are the same fuckers who bitched about XP when it first came out.
The only bugs that exist in Vista that truly are hampering are the ones that affect things like dial-up, serial devices, and pre-win95 software. If you have a problem with your serial port device not working in Vista, I'm sorry, but you'll just have to upgrade to something within the last 10 years for it to work. Oh noes. Tough shit. I know, it's SO terrible.
If you hate Vista, you're either old, uneducated, or old and uneducated. And you certainly don't have Vista on your own computer if you hate it, because if you actually fucking USED it at home, you'd realize that there isn't a goddamned thing to bitch about. Case and point? The two technicians at my work who hate Vista and tell customers that it is "buggy", gray haired, balding, and have never used Vista on one of their own home PCs. They're just afraid of what's new and don't want to change, even though the new shit is much better.
In addition to the fact that Vista is no buggier than XP, Vista has a huge array of awesome and useful features that are down right irritating to lose by using XP.
No, I'm not talking about Window Flipping. The Start Search, for instance, makes it really easy to find a program without ever using the mouse. Want to open Paint? There's no reason to click Star>Programs>Accessories>Paint. Just hit the start button on your keyboard, type "paint" and hit enter. Instant. This works for all kinds of shit, like opening menus that would otherwise take 5-6 clicks to get to, such as the Printers dialog box, or the calculator, or even a website.
The sound menu in Vista is about 100x better than XP's. You know all those problems that everyone is always having with their Ventrilo for Mic input and speaker input and having echos?
...and then you try to tell them how to fix it and it takes like 45 fucking minutes just to figure out how to make their speakers not broadcast over the mic? Yeah, that's easier than shit in Vista, and the problem generally just doesn't fucking happen in the first place, because they re-coded the entire way the OS handles sound.
And let's not forget networking. Holy fucking crap, I don't know if you've ever had a LAN party with XP machines, but I've probably had over 25 back in the day, and let me tell you, XP sucks dick for networking. Even if you set everything up right, there's a 40% chance that shit just... won't work. You could have all of the proper settings configured, the network wizard run, firewalls disabled, and XP will fucking take a shit on you and not allow you to access anything for no goddamned reason.
Networking in Vista takes about 10 seconds, and there is no rebooting or wizard-running required. Computers automatically see each other, and if file sharing is enabled, they share files. I setup probably 10 home networks a week at my job, in customer's houses. If I had to do it with XP constantly, I'd probably kill myself. Thankgod they only sell Vista in retail.
