Socially|Mundane

Don't you just love the feeling of complete and total vindication and validation of that which in your own mind you absolutely swear is God's honest truth by experience?

I swore up one side of the mountain and down the other that Microsoft Vista is a lot more painful for people than they realize. it's a pig. A resource hog. And just plain sluggish as hell in general computing tasks than anything Microsoft has ever released before.

This creates huge issues in Second Life. Perceived "lag" is, contrary to popular belief, 95% your own damned computer or internet connection. I have said it time and again and again. And I absolutely hate it when people come to my sim and bitch and whine and moan about "lag".

The next person that complains about lag in my sim, I will respond first with "Are you using Microsoft Vista?" If that answer is "yes" - I will recommend as strongly as I possibly can to upgrade to Windows XP.

Seriously. I have a machine that was built as a "gamer's" machine, decked-pout with the best graphics card, three whole gigabytes of RAM (No windows version other than 64-bit editions can see more than three gigabytes of RAM - and people wonder why I and millions of other smart people love the Macintosh so much.)

However, don't just take my word that Windows Vista market share sucks. Don't just take my word that OS X is better than any version of Windows (had to throw that in there - sorry). But more importantly, don't take my word that Windows Vista is SNAFU:

Vista voted top "Fiasco": Scientific American Blog: "It's official, Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system gets the prize for being the most overhyped, underperforming information and communication technology (ICT) project. Windows Vista garnered 5,222 of 6,043 votes (86 percent) entered via the Web to snag top honors in the first-ever Fiasco Awards announced in Barcelona, Spain, today, beating out other contenders, including Google's Lively virtual world, the One Laptop per Child computer (developed by the Nicholas Negroponte-chaired One Laptop Per Child Association, Inc.) and Second Life."

Sometimes truth not only hurts, it's unfuckingdeniable.
via Scientific American