[ale] Mojave experiment

[Forsaken]

On Aug 5, 2008, at 2:44 PM, Jeff Lightner wrote:

> Lol
>
> Vista not bad for normal end users?
>
> Meaning normal end users never try to get printers and other devices
> that worked flawlessly with their older XP system but now can't be  
> made
> to work on Vista even with a gun pointed to its head?

When I say normal end users, I'm talking about the folks who sit down  
in front of their computers, check their email, do their online  
banking, visit ebay, and maybe print a few lolcats here and there.  
Honestly, I haven't heard of that many problems with printer drivers,  
but the folks I know all use HP printers, so I'm not really surprised.  
Most of the folks I know bitching about Vista are the ones with high  
end systems with high end video cards and sound cards that they built  
themselves (ie, power users). Not your average housewife who went to  
Wal-Mart and bought an HP computer off the shelf.

> Your parents may have been lucky or maybe just do minimal things.  The
> few people I know that have tried Vista (including at least one
> professional Windoze Admin) think its sucks wind.

I'm pretty sure I said that anyone with a clue knows better when it  
comes to Vista ;) The professional windows admin you referenced  
probably qualifies as that (or maybe not, most windows admins I know  
are secretly linux geeks and just admin windows boxes to pay the  
bills!) My old laptop came with Vista pre-installed (and only a gig of  
RAM as well.. wtf were they thinking?). It never got a chance to boot.  
First thing I did was insert and XP disc and boot that (and, of  
course, after that install was done, a boot off of an Ubuntu disc  
immediately followed)