The morning after ...
Sep. 6th, 2007 08:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellarienThe last update on the desktop post was about 4am. I'm really getting a bit old for that kind of thing ...
One huge improvement in Vista vs everything since Win95: sensible paths! c:\users\ellarien\documents is much nicer than c:\documents and settings\ellarien\my documents. On the other hand, the repeated confirmation dialogs when installing stuff are a little offputting, and there are a distressing number of features that insist on using IE instead of Firefox. The option to make the menus and windows look exactly like Win98 exists, and I used it; I may revisit that at some point, but for now it's nice to have things looking familiar.
On the hardware front, I'm moderately appalled that Dell seem to have managed to ship the thing without doing up the screws on the CPU fan, but impressed by the tech support guy who talked me through fixing it. The economics of that are interesting; half an hour of a call-center employee in India must be much cheaper than sending out an engineer to do the relatively trivial stuff. On the other hand, I'm not sure I'd be so sanguine about it if I hadn't done a certain amount of hands-on science in my younger days, which in the late 80's involved quite a bit of swapping cards and drives in IBM PS/2 boxes.
One huge improvement in Vista vs everything since Win95: sensible paths! c:\users\ellarien\documents is much nicer than c:\documents and settings\ellarien\my documents. On the other hand, the repeated confirmation dialogs when installing stuff are a little offputting, and there are a distressing number of features that insist on using IE instead of Firefox. The option to make the menus and windows look exactly like Win98 exists, and I used it; I may revisit that at some point, but for now it's nice to have things looking familiar.
On the hardware front, I'm moderately appalled that Dell seem to have managed to ship the thing without doing up the screws on the CPU fan, but impressed by the tech support guy who talked me through fixing it. The economics of that are interesting; half an hour of a call-center employee in India must be much cheaper than sending out an engineer to do the relatively trivial stuff. On the other hand, I'm not sure I'd be so sanguine about it if I hadn't done a certain amount of hands-on science in my younger days, which in the late 80's involved quite a bit of swapping cards and drives in IBM PS/2 boxes.