So, I found out 167 torrents at once cause my router to fail horribly. It just drops all connections and stops doing anything at all and requires a reboot. Of course all of those were legal torrents…

Oh, what I’d do for an account… I’m somewhat sick of the major closed community sites, half of them are always down…

Well, overall I give it a high rating. 8.5 sounds about right. I was impressed by a lot of it, yet hated some major portions.

All in all, I’ll give a short non-biased report.

The good:
Stability – It’s virtually impossible to fuck up, and doesn’t crash.
Looks – Sure, its GNOME, so nothing new, but they did some good work on it.
Ease of use – As long as you can deal with the lack of current software, it’s simple to use.
Easy to update – It takes a second to get used to, but the package manager is nice.
ZFS – Finally something that doesn’t use EXT3 natively. Not that there’s anything wrong with EXT3, but there’s better (XFS).

The bad:
Lack of software – compiling everything yourself sucks, the packages in the repository are all old compared to other operating systems.
Compiling sucks – getting a development environment set up and working is a pain, this is where I killed my 2nd install.
Sluggish – Yes, they make an x86 version, but it’s sluggish compared to other OS’s. Might be VMWare.

All in all, it’s something I’ll come back to again at some point. Sun is sending me a free install CD, so once I get my nice box setup, I’ll give it another try. Maybe by then the above stated bad things will be better.

I decided I’d VMWare a copy to see how good it would be. More or less I was expecting it to suck like all other Microsoft products I’ve used so far, but I was actually impressed.

It’s basically a better then Vista interface (somewhat like OS X ass raped Vista), and seems to be fairly stable. I haven’t managed to crash it yet, and I’ve had it for 3 days now. As always, I beat on Windows harshly.

Windows 7 Ultimate x86 Beta Build 7100

Things I like so far:
The interface is much nicer (I’m a *nix/OS X person though, so I’m biased towards that style)
HomeGroup (Media Center on steroids across a home network)
Gadgets (aka Widgets (see *nix/OS X))
Action Center (XP Security center, but not dumb, and does more)
Firewall with Advanced Security (The default firewall doesn’t suck as much)
It’s completely usable via Speech Recognition
Remote Apps (Remote Desktop, but specifically for certain applications)
Drive Encryption (From Vista Ultimate)
Backward Compatibility (It’ll run Windows 95 and newer apps, without any hassle (rumor has DOS/3.1, but I haven’t gotten that to work yet))
Hardware Compatibility (It seems to do tons with just the base install (Biometrics, GPS, etc))
New standard software (DVD Maker, new games, etc)
Internet Explorer isn’t a huge security nightmare for once

Things I hate so far:
Everything has been renamed, it’s a bitch finding things (eg: “Add & Remove Programs” = “Programs & Features”)
No default anti-virus (Does do spy-ware though (Windows Defender))

As you can see, I like it a lot more than I hate it.

All in all, I give it an 8.5 out of 10, which isn’t bad considering I rate XP at about 6.5 and Vista at about 5.

It’s still Windows though. I’ll take Debian over it any day

I had a rather funny conversation with Michelle earlier today:

Michelle: haha.
Michelle: i needa restart.
Joe: …..windows?
Joe: dont tell me your using windows…
Joe: hahaha
Michelle: you knew i was, smart one.
Joe: you nuked mint?
Michelle: why else on facebook would i say i have windows 7?
Michelle: haha.
Joe: haha dual boot?
Joe: so ew
***Joe pukes all over your computer
Joe: get rid of that horrid thing
Michelle: Hahahahaha.

Pretty much sums up my opinion on Windows 7.

Ok, so Windows 7 isn’t that bad, and Mint isn’t the greatest distro out there, but its still a lot better than Windows.

As always, Debian for me