Well, I have been toying around with vista for quite some time, so I think I have a couple of remarks on this.
@Boris the Blade said:
Wireless networking
To get this to work to begin with
is hell on earth as it overides the bundled WIFI driver software. But
it won't automatically connect, you have to click on the icon at the
bottom right to get a list of connections up then connect. But to get
this list of connections to pop up you first have to wait about 1
minute while it thinks about for no apparent reason, whats that all
about?
The 30-60 second delay is frequently due to either
IPv6 (which is broken to all get out) or a badly programmed firewall.
I shaved 30 sec of the connect time by disabling IPv6, the rest by
uninstalling the Comodo firewall 3 beta. Now it works just great,
which is completely unlike Linux which would have its connection go
down after 5 minutes and force a reconnect.
@mrbandersnatch said:
First few days with Vista...4MB Zip file, roughly 200 files within, 2.2Ghz core 2 duo, 2 GB ram machine....
Right click zip file, unzip....estimated time to complete 108 mins!!!
.....
Install 7-zip, unzip, time to unzip...3-5 seconds!!
Yeah, Vista sucks.
Hmm, odd, on my compy (significantly slower by the looks of it), the built in zip program unzips a 15mb archive with 2k files in it in 40 sec, but that's slow compared to 7zip which unzipped a 200mb file at 130Mb/s. I don't know what would cause that other than a poor time estimate by the program.