[ale] [OT] Mojave Experiment

[Calvin Harrigan]

Atlanta Geek wrote:
> If anyone is interested microsoft has a new site up @
> http://www.mojaveexperiment.com to combat preconceived ideas on Vista
> The most interesting aspect of this for me was that they used Flash to
> do it as opposed to Microsoft's product 'Silverlight'.
> Maybe I just find this interesting because some of the marketing guys
> who found out I was using adobe flex in our product are asking me why
> we don't use Microsoft's Silverlight.
> 

I KNOW this is a Linux mailing list, but...

What are some of the reasons why YOU don't like vista.

Leaving out, it's from Microsoft, no reason for an upgrade just yet, etc.

Personally I think it's resource requirements are too high.
A gig of ram not enough?  What are they smoking?
256Meg video card minimum for aero?  What?!  There is nothing in vista 
that have impressed upon me the need to have so much video card memory.
I've seen distributions like Sabayon do close to video miracles with 
little more than a video frame buffer and not nearly as much as far as ram.

It's slow!  Don't give me it's not perceivably slower.  It's has the 
same sluggish feel that visual studio has (.net seems to be the root 
cause).  I hear people argue that it's faster than XP in some instances 
on the same hardware.  I generally ask people who say that to step back 
and think about what they are saying.  How can you possibly think that 
an OS with several times more data in memory and on disk could possibly 
be faster?  Did it include a CPU speed multiplier?  Your CPU will still 
process the same amount of ips.

Incompatibility? Really a strawman.  I've since wanted them to stop 
being directly backwards compatible.  Any old programs can be run in 
some kind of sandbox, vm.  Wine for windows?

Security?  I guess you can call it that...

Anyway what are your reasons for dislike.