Tweaking Vista to be ‘Great’?
by Wyatt WalterRecently OSnews linked to an article on tweaking Windows Vista to be “great” from PC Magazine. Now, Windows tweaking tips are all fine and dandy, but this article struck me as odd. The tagline of the article goes like this:
Windows Vista is everyone’s favorite tech punching bag, and not without reason. But the reviled operating system has some amazing potential and with some tweaks and a few utilities, you can do what Redmond didn’t: make Vista great.
Hmm, sounds a little funny to me, but let’s move on. An even more surprising comment comes in the second second paragraph of the article:
Surprisingly, most of Vista’s annoyances are fixable. If you’re willing to roll up your sleeves and do some tweaking, you can turn Vista into a pretty great OS.
Wait, let’s back this fanboy train up. What just happened here? This seems awful reminiscent of comments I’ve read from Linux users of the days of old. We used to hear something like, “Linux is very powerful as long as you’re willing to learn it”. Windows fans for years have been scoffing Linux saying that it’s either too difficult or has annoyances that have to be overcome before using it, and that’s why you should continue to use Windows. So, when did this happen? Are we really reading articles from PC magazines about how Windows could be great if you know how to tweak it? And why hasn’t Apple (or some Linux distro) jumped all over this?
The main reason that I would have for choosing a proprietary, commercial operating system over an open one would be so that I don’t have to tweak it to make it “great”! Of course, we all know (or will soon find out) that nothing comes to us for free. We either pay for the software by literally purchasing the license and/or support, or we spend the time to learn a community-supported operating system and “spend” our money that way. Given articles like this that PC Magazine thinks you need to tweak Vista to make it “great”, it amazes me that Microsoft is still a real contender in the operating system market.
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Oct 22nd, 2008
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