Collins’ Onovia

Announced on July 22nd, 2005 Released on January 30, 200, Microsoft Vista’s “Aero” has most high end computers looking quite fancy. It’s quite the eye candy.

So, I wanted to install Vista on my computer. Here’s a brief description of this past Monday:

1. Backup needed files from C: to D:
2. Pop in Vista Ultimate
3. Install for 50 minutes, sometimes looking locked up
4. Get all Windows updates and drivers installed.
5. Find out that my video drivers are just plain shitty.
6. Spend 45 Minutes installing Windows XP
7. Spend 2+Hours running Windows Updates
8. Restore all software again.

In all, once the annoyances on Vista are disabled, Vista with Aero is hot.

Then, I see this video:

After watching that video I think to myself: “I spend all that money on Windows Vista Ultimate; A product in development for almost 2 years… and then something 100x better comes up from nowhere… free and opensource.”

In closing, I must say that Beryl takes the cake here. What do you think?