First impression of Vista

[Evan Leibovitch]

ted leslie wrote:
> So the sales man tells me, by the way if your looking at upgrading my
> home pc to Vista, I might want to think twice, he says Vista is 
> really bad as it , he claims, takes your initial EULA (Acceptance) and
> will nuke your shit if it doesn't like it (or something to that extent),
> i was thinking, WOW if every future shop salesman was like that, Bill
> isn't going to sell to many copies!
>   
Thanks for the report, Ted. That does sound bad. I've been reading that 
they're not going to be selling too many upgrades anytime soon 
(especially because of the HW requirements), but it will become the new 
pre-install on new PCs.

Hmm. Maybe the Linux crowd just needs to keep on its path, produce 
top-notch stuff, and eventually MS will just bully people towards us.

I've mentioned that so far I don't see non-IT folks seeing a compelling 
reason to install Linux. Maybe in Vista MS will provide Linux with the 
compelling reason (DRM nastiness), without the needing to do anything 
different.

BTW, what _is_ a "good beryl/compiz xgl set up"? I know the thing is now 
relatively easy to install, are there any good default configurations?

- Evan

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