Scott Loveless wrote: > Mark Roberts wrote: >> Amita Guha wrote: >> >>> My PC laptop is on its last legs, and I'm not too into Vista, >> You're apparently not alone: >> http://www.news.com/The-XP-alternative-for-Vista-PCs/2100-1016_3-6209481.html?tag=item >> >> >> > Vista has failed, unrecoverably (is that a word?), twice on my 7 month > old laptop. I know a handful of people who have had no difficulties > with off-the-shelf Vista, which leads me to believe that it's probably > HP's ad-ware bloated image. After the first failure I ran Ubuntu Linux > for several months without incident, switching back to Vista about a > month ago because I have a scanner that doesn't play well with Linux. > Yesterday the laptop wouldn't boot. Again. I tried installing XP, but > it didn't see a hard disk. A few quick google searches turned up > instructions for disabling SATA native mode. An illegal copy of XP is > now installed and running very smoothly. > > The way I see it, I paid for an OS when I bought this machine. It's not > my fault it doesn't work. So screw 'em. After all, they still have my > money. >
HP's image is hideous, and their additional software is not 100% Vista compatible, no matter what they say. I didn't install anything but the drivers when I got my free upgrade for my HP laptop, and even those caused me trouble. I'm one of the few having little in the way of trouble with Vista now (less than I had with XP). But that's because I went in and seriously stripped down what was running, MS's default install has all sorts of crap running that shouldn't be (Why the hell does a home machine-oriented install have the iSCSI SAN service running? Among other crap) and UAC is a travesty in UI design (first thing I turned off). The only real issue I have is that Vista won't let me uninstall the broken HP graphics drivers so I can install updated ATI-sourced drivers. But I suspect that's HP's fault, not MS's. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
