I’m working on my first online video project. My laptop couldn’t handle the humougous files. The right tools just don’t exist for my beefy linux box. So I decided to load Microsoft Vista on the linux box. I wasn’t really using it for anything that required linux anyways. And besides, Microsoft recently issued an plea to the computer users of the world to upgrade to Vista already. Poor Microsoft.
Vista stopped me cold. It is not ready for prime time. If you need your computer to work, rely not on Vista! Granted, some of the problems I faced were related to the software I was trying to run (QuickTime Pro and Adobe Premiere Elements), but really, by Microsoft’s own logic, the applications can’t be separated from the operating system. When I’m trying to export a large MOV file and the computer issues a cryptic error message and reboots, who cares whether the OS or the application caused the problem?
My advice: Avoid Vista unless you only are running applications that come on the Vista disk. You will struggle using any serious application that demand the operating to perform. Vista will improve. Vista applications will improve. But for now, they are not ready to be used as reliable tools for getting real work done.
I’ll try Vista again when service pack 1 is released toward the end of the year
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