Windows Vista = Slow^3
by Colin on Jul.17, 2009, under General
Yep that’s a snail on a turtle with a Vista tattoo to illustrate how Vista = slow3. I threw this together to console a friend who was going through an upgrade to Windows Vista SP3. It took them weeks(so far) to roll it out at his work; and it still isn’t complete. The pic is adapted from an icanhazcheezburger.com post.
Maybe I’ve been spoiled with the speed of a Linux desktop without intrusive ‘virus protection’, but everytime I use a Vista machine, I find myself frustrated. I guess I get sick of the waiting, double confirmations, the "I told you to shutdown, why are you installing updates… ", etc.
I have professionally developed on all major desktop OSs (Windows[98,2k,XP,Vista], OSX, and Linux) as well as used many others over the years (RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Solaris, HPUX, Windows[2k3,2008], etc.) So when I started my current contract, I had a bad dream the night before. I dreampt that I was forced to use Windows Vista. I’m not going to call it a nightmare, but it came close 
(They ended up giving me an XP box)
This is my OS Preference as it stands today:
Vista < XP < Windows 7 < OSX < Linux (Ubuntu, Gentoo, etc.)
I honestly expected more from Vista seeing that it was coming from the largest/wealthiest software company/OS vendor in the world. Using Vista isn’t the end of the world, but you don’t know better until you get a taste of freedom 
To be fair, Microsoft has put a lot of effort behind Windows and it is a big responsibility when you take the OS Market in the 90’s and into the 2000s. MacOS was saved by OSX; can Microsoft follow suit? Either way, good competition makes for a better Operating System landscape.
July 17th, 2009 on 2:31 pm
It’s actually SP2 and thankfully I run Linux at home. Unfortunately it just makes me hate Vista all the more.
And thanks for the picture, it made my day
May 9th, 2010 on 12:14 pm
Windows Vista is good but it can hog your CPU and Memory.,-`