Vista Killer

I have a brand new PC. It's lovely. The hardware is sweet, and everything is the way I like it.

However, I only managed to procure a legal Windows license of Vista.

I imagined that Vista would give me some difficulties. It's still new, and I'm not as new as I used to be. But I chose to give it a shot, anyway. I assumed that I would have to learn it for the workplace, so it would not be time lost.

So after some trouble, I managed to get it installed and working.

Well working is certainly a relative term. I find Vista to be the most infuriating release from Microsoft yet.

Very few things work as you expect them to, and the cutting edge features that Vista supposedly brings to the table do not make up for it's brokenness elsewhere.

The number one problem? Lack of framerate in World of Warcraft.

That's right! I know many people have reported that WoW is unaffected in Vista, but I have not found this to be the case. Maybe they have a more appropriate amount of RAM than I do (I only have 1gb). Maybe they have far superior video cards. Maybe they can fly and shoot milk from their armpits - it doesn't matter to me.

What matters to me is that I spend most of the time on my home PC surfing the web, and playing WoW. And Vista is not satisfying that need.

At the writing of this post I'm using Torrent for one of it's more legitimate purposes. I'm downloading the AMD64 and x386 DVD versions of Ubuntu 7.

I'm going to see if WINE runs WoW better than Vista.

Bet you five bucks!

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Yeah, it does run WoW better than Vista.

Unfortunately, the punks at Ventrilo are rooster-blocking a Linux native client of Vent, and Vent doesn't work all that well in Wine despite reports (aoss does not allow multi-access to sound card, etc).

Wishing the guild used Teamspeak. Rapidly becoming a non-fan of Ventrilo. Forced to play on Windows "Good luck with that" Vista.