Reply 20 of 28, by Papa Lazarou
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vista is a lovely shiney polished turd of an operating system.
oh how pleased i am at buying SLI 9600 GTs and Vista Ultimate 64bit.
had i done a little bit more research... cough... ok some research at all... i'd have perhaps realised SLI means no dual monitors. yay. F*ck up number one.
had i done a little more research into what 64bit means other than 'more memory available' i'd have realised more memory is available coz i can't get drivers for all my frickin' hardware. yay. F*ck up number two.
I now have to power up a second pc running xp and print on that as there's no 64bit drivers for my epson stylus photo 950, I can't even use it as a shared network printer coz it still needs a 64bit driver... for a frickin' printer for heavens sake... what a sack of Sh....t!
And if that aint bad enough there's the occasional hard freezes that i can't track down because Vista's diagnostic tools are completely worthless. After booting from cold it occassionally does a great Max Headroom impression as it freezes and stutters, but bizarely it's ok after hibernating and waking up again.
And after trying and failing to work out what might be wrong, all I can say is whoever wrote the UI of Event Viewer needs a red hot poker applied to their genitals for quite some hours, as does for that matter whoever reinvented the UI of Windows Explorer. gah.
After being an early adopter of XP and suffering BSOD hell for the first few months i had kinda hoped that waiting a year or so would have been long enough for Vista to 'settle in'... but nooooooo.... it's a big smelly turd and it needs to be flushed. (And I hope M$ will have the decency to offer a big upgrade discount to Windows7 too)
it's evil. burn it.
hope that was emotive enough 😁
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