Comments | crazycolin: Tweak your computer blog? also: rant

crazycolin

Tweak your computer blog? also: rant

Jan 17, 2009 20:10

Ok, I didn't know about this particular Windows tweak until today, but it's awesome. For some reason Firefox has been taking a ridiculously long time to load when I start it up (sometimes 5 seconds, usually around 30 seconds, occasionally upwards of 45 seconds ( Read more... )

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hobbes512 January 18 2009, 23:01:33 UTC

I've had that exact dual monitor problem with Ubuntu. It's also other small things that are annoying: there's this weird white noise that comes out of my speakers that doesn't happen when I'm in Vista; the flash plug-in for Firefox randomly stops working, requiring me to restart the browser; the occasionally impenetrable installation procedures.

I haven't had any problems with Vista yet, and I've been using it for around 6 months now. I wouldn't say it sucks. It might be the case that it doesn't particularly improve upon XP---I never used XP, so I don't know---but I have a hard time believing that XP is a significantly better operating system.

crazycolin January 19 2009, 19:07:49 UTC

There's an article on Slashdot about how Vista's faults were blown out of proportion. So I guess that probably influenced me. Chances are good that I'll never use it on one of my own computers, so it doesn't matter that much to me. I guess I'm not so worried about Windows 7 sucking. I just hope it's downright good because my options are limited.