by Baphomet » Mon Feb 23, 2009 2:22 pm
My Windows Vista Experience: Hear Ye Now My Tale of Woe...
So I'm in Fry's Electronics a few months ago... See this smokin' little HP laptop that's been marked down to some ridiculous price because HP is discontinuing the model. This bitch is the sweetness too, AMD X2 Mobile proc, 2GB of DDR2, discrete nVidia graphics, honkin big hard drive... Not too mention it's just gorgeous; I mean this thing is freaking sweet. So I'm thinkin' this little gem oughta run a 'buntu install like a turpentined freakin' cat, right? Comes with Vista preinstalled and what not but screw it, I'll just wipe it and do a clean install. I get the sucker home, plug it in to let the battery charge a little and decide to check out Vista before I say "buh-bye..." right? Just to see what all the fuss is about. I'd say it's been charging a couple hours when I boot it up. Vista kicks off, I answer some questions, set up the account and what not and then, in a F--KING BLAZING MOMENT OF APPLIED INTELLIGENCE, go through the process of making a Vista system-restore disc. I think nothing of this at the time, however. So anywho... Now I have my account in Vista.
I start poking around... Looking at $#!% and just toolin' around you know? Gettin' a feel for it and think, "Oh, shoot... I should do my updates."
Log into Microsoft Update and...
and...
KABLOOIE!!! Blue, Mother-F--king, Screen of Mother-F--king DEATH!!! Can you freaking believe it?? A freaking BSOD!!
Total Time Out of the Box: ~2 hours.
Long story short: I had two or three more BSOD's under Vista that day and so, with my curiousity now totally satisfied, I performed a Vista-ectomy and installed Ubuntu. Turns out the wireless card is a cold-rolled, blue-steel bitch to work with so, after struggling with it for three days, I just plain gives up. I packs up the pretty little lappy in it's box and I takes it back to Fry's. *sniffle* 'Twasn't meant to be it seems.
I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am...
If it's not broken, you haven't tweaked it enough.
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