Like everyone else in the geek world, I've decided to give Windows 7 a try. Well, I have my first impressions, right down to the "Oh God, I'm having to go back to Vista now!" emotions.
The install process was as smooth as glass. I had absolutely no complaints there. It did take a little longer than I had expected, but one can't complain.
The three reboots that were required after the installer seemed a bit much. I don't understand why all of the information couldn't have been collected after the first reboot, then just one more reboot into the new OS.
After I got to my desktop, I started by downloading Firefox 3, the ATI drivers for my video card (packed for Vista), and I grabbed Winzip and PuTTy from my other computer. I was pretty happy that the only driver I needed to find was one for the graphics so I could run in my preferred resolution: The sound and network were operational out of the box.
After I installed the ATI drivers, which was a horrible pain no thanks to Toshiba's packaging method, Windows needed to reboot. At this stage in the game, I don't understand why the OS needs to reboot because a new driver was installed. I have yet to come across a modern Linux distro that requires a reboot to reload a driver (or kernel module as the case may be). Anyhow, this is where the headache started (and didn't finish).
When Windows powered down, I decided to go ahead and remove my USB drive before the bootloader fired. After the bootloader kicked off though, it was straight to a blue screen. I didn't get a chance to see what the error was before it dumped the memory and powered down, but I was able to somewhat boot back up. The failure started after the GUI loaded.
Windows wanted to try to repair the OS right away, and only gave me the "Yes" and "Shutdown now" options. I decided to let it try to repair itself, but half an hour later it said it couldn't, and that my only option was to power down.
I tried to boot it up again after that, but got the same run-around, so I'm now reinstalling the factory software.
Conclusion: Windows 7 isn't ready, and it really hasn't solved anything.
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That is odd that it didn’t recover from that since the kernel is essentially just tweaked vista... i’m curious, were u using ready boost?
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Using what?
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ready boost for your usb drive.
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I've never heard of it. It was one of those e3-enabled drives or whatever it is that Sandisk uses. I got rid of that and turned it into a straight USB storage device though.
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"Conclusion: Windows 7 isn't ready, and it really hasn't solved anything. "
Well yes isn't that the definition of 'Beta'?
And of course it won't solve anything, it's Micro$oft.
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Where are my pants?
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o_O
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that is why you shouldent drink to much cause you find yourself asking where your pants are when really they were on your head the whole time.