I’ve tried using Vista for slightly over two months now, and I keep on having issues with it. At this point, I find that working with Vista has caused more headaches for me than XP, so I’ve decided to use something else. My current problems with Vista and my Dell M1330 are many, but here are a couple of major ones. If my computer goes to sleep, sometimes it will not wake up. That is, the screen turns black and when pushing the power button, it remains black. I’ve had to do a hard reset on this computer more times than necessary.
My other problem with Vista, unlike most people, is that I seem to be having a lot of issues with stability. This could be caused by me installing SUA under Vista, but I would not see why this would cause problems. Many times I’ve come back to my computer, after a night of just sitting there, with an error message on the screen. After closing up all of the errors, the computer just sits there doing nothing. Ctrl, Alt, Delete does nothing. Windows + R does nothing. Pushing the power button in hope that the computer will start the shutdown process…nothing. This is starting to irritate me.
Right now, my choices are XP and some sort of linux flavor. My preferred choice of linux has always been Slackware, but I may just go with Ubuntu this time just because it seems that there are more people into it and it is meant to be a desktop distribution. I could always switch back to XP, none of the bloat of Vista would mean that this baby will zoom. We’ll see how it all goes down.
