Why, Vista, why?

[almostwitty]

Appropos of nothing, I ended up upgrading to Windows Vista last night. (well, rather, my new swanky laptop which I got for a ridiculously cheap price arrived).

Straight away ran into a few problems. All the fancy graphics are nice, but don't actually amount to even a ramp of beans, let alone a hill. The much-vaunted security issues seem positively annoying when you're trying to set up a new laptop.

The worst issue is that my favourite game in the whole wide world, Civilisation 4, refuses to run on Vista. I've tried running patches, installing DirectX, uninstalling and reinstalling and each time various little bugs come up. including that it can't find the DVD - even though I ran it from the DVD in the first place.

Which wouldn't be so bad if ... half the reason I upgraded was so that Civilisation 4 could run comparatively smoothly on it instead of crashing when my old laptop would overheat.

Have you used/tried Vista in earnest and anger? Would I really be sad if I resorted to trying to dual-boot it just so I could run a game?

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[spooforbrains.livejournal.com]

That shiny new laptop that I bought (I believe I had just got it when I met you at Marylebone) was running Vista. It was, as I say, shiny and new, and yet running Vista it felt like using a PIII with XP. Running Linux, of course, it flies.

Vista is good for nothing, and I agree with you about AeroGlass - it adds nothing to the experience. At least with Aqua or Compiz on Linux, it feels flash and pretty. AreoGlass is just boring. Except it's boring and transparent, instead of boring and opaque.