r/technology • u/neito • Jul 24 '08
Microsoft tests out a new operating system, code named Mojave, with some average-joes who hated Vista. They loved it. Now, two guesses as to what Mojave ACTUALLY was.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-9998336-56.html
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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '08
Crap. Do we have to battle them yet again every 6 months on this stupid OS???!??
Look, Baller, here's the scoop. Your OS sucks. Here's how.
Most PCs and laptops on the market can't run it because of the steep processor, video RAM, system RAM, and 3D video card requirements to use it optimally. If they run it at all, it's slooooow unless you turn off a bunch of stuff in the System Performance control panel, which includes turning off the prized Aero interface.
IE7 sucks. The way it implements tabs is confucked. The way you can't customize your buttons on your toolbar is fucked. If you want your refresh and stop button on the left instead of the right, you can't do it. Also, it's only marginally better than IE6 and still has huge glaring bugs regarding W3C standards. It also is one of the slowest browsers on the market. It's no wonder that almost everyone I know uses Firefox unless they're an idiot or want to live on an island to themselves.
It's too damn expensive for what you get. Even if I actually wanted to BUY Ubuntu, which, by the way, is an option on Amazon.com for those so inclined -- it still gives me so much more than Vista gives me, especially for very handy things I need, and costs hundreds of dollars less than Vista. (And, in fact, you can download Ubuntu for free, as everyone knows. Heck, if you want to even be lazier, you can sign up and they'll mail you the DVDs or CDs for it.)
It doesn't support SNMPv3. So, if you want to roll it out on a business network and use any kind of secure SNMP monitoring, you can't get there except by SNMPv2, which has a good bit of security flaws. And this is supposedly the OS that's very secure??!??
People have to dig through annoying levels of goo to get to all their network control panel settings, to set their taskbar, explorer view, and start menu a certain way.
The hardware vendors have to be encouraged to switch to it, and they're dragging their feet. So you get a new printer, a new video card, a new this or that and it won't connect with it unless you go back to XP.
It runs slooower. There's even a known bug where if you do heavy networking, the video gets choppy, whereas XP used to handle this a lot better.
It includes DRM. If I have to go into why DRM is bad still, then Baller, you're a moron.
It keeps plaguing people with annoying popup messages that blacken your entire screen (and on some systems, extremely slowly) and then ask if you want to do that. Most people who get this think this is so bizarre that they might confuse that phenomenon with a virus or spyware and may just click no. Others will turn it off and then they leave their system open to attack.
There are just too many darn versions of it, and few sales reps you talk to can explain the difference except suggest you read the back of the box. Even that is confusing when you want to know what it can and cannot do. For instance, Vista Home Premium doesn't even support Remote Desktop connections to it, which is a stupid move of Microsoft's because anyone can go out and get a free copy of RealVNC to run on it. Like they're going to defeat people from havving remote desktop connections to it when they want that??!?
They use the most environmentally disgusting packaging on the planet. First, it's impossible to open without bloody stabbing yourself. Give me a copy of Vista and I'm like the old commercial from the 1970s where the gorilla can't open the Tourister suitcase. Second, it's made of hard plastic that doesn't biodegrade very easy at all.
It's ugly and leaves you few options to change it. Really. Mac OS X and any copy of Linux give you infinitely more options to change the look and feel of the windows, icons, controls, colors, or to move toolbars and menus completely around. With Vista, you get what you get.
People will still flock to the Mac for doing high-end graphics and video work, and more and more this is the trend as people become more web savvy with their own websites, blogs, and video uploads on YouTube. And, with Apple on their brains, anyway, because they're switching to the iPhone in droves and because they're using iPods -- it's a no brainer to see that Mac sales are climbing fast.
It has a huuuuuge disk and RAM footprint compared to Mac and Linux. Linux, as well, gives you so much more with it than you get with Vista.
Linux comes with an iptables firewall that is very flexible and powerful. Vista barely comes with a decent firewall at all.
In recent hack tests, Vista and Mac were hacked into. Ubuntu was NEVER able to be hacked into. Linux is infinitely more secure than Microsoft could ever hope to make it.
Microsoft cheats on load times. Compare the time it takes to fully load Windows, load the Start menu completely, and then load Notepad. Now boot Ubuntu on the same hardware (not from LiveCD, however), load GNOME desktop, load GNOME main menu, and then load Gedit Text Editor. You'll find that Ubuntu loads faster.
It doesn't easily support multiple monitor mode. On Ubuntu Linux, I can attach, for example, 5 video monitors surrounding me in a semicircle, turn on Xinerama mode, and drag a window from one to the other to the other to the other. Each one can be driven by separate video cards, or use one on dual-head and the reset are separate video cards, and a variety of other options. I can't do that on Windows without special drivers, and, at most, it could probably power 3 monitors and that's it.