I hate Windows Vista. Certainly I’ll buy it within the first year or so if I can be convinced it won’t run like an asthmatic chihuahua with a limp on a six month old dual processor system with a Gig of RAM. But it will still be a piece of crap.
This article covers a lot of my complaints; everything from merrily abandoning any pretense of UI familiarity to evil, evil User Annoyance Control. I loaded up Vista with Beta 2, then Pre-RC1, RC1 and ended up using RC2 from the first week of October until this past weekend. I’ve given the thing a test spin: external drives, Media Center with a TV Tuner, photos, videos, the works. And it sucks. It sucks hard.
Why the devil do I have to wade through eleventy-hundred menus to change my screen resolution? What the hell was wrong with the little plus signs in Windows Explorer so you knew which folders had subfolders? Why can’t I, as a local Administrator, expand files to the C: drive? What the hell is going on?
Bah. So it’s back to XP with its dynamic drive issues, its inability to let me watch Live TV in Media Center two times in a row without a full hour dicking with drivers, and its pretty Candyland scheme.
Christ, if it weren’t for the fact that touching a mouse for pedestrian tasks makes my teeth itch I’d go entirely to OS X. But that’s a whole ‘nother bitching essay.