vista

i installed windows vista.

no i didn't.

I installed a piece of software that makes winXP look like vista.

To my knowledge there are only two things that separate vista from xp.

The first is what it looks like.

The second is that there are no drivers for anything on vista, and most hardware manufacturers have no plans to create the drivers.

so now my xo looks like vista, and has massive driver support.

so my xp is now superior to vista in every conceivable way.




There is one thing that may make me install vista for real. Games.

In two to four years I expect games to work in directx10 on vista, i also expect that those games will not work on xp. At that time, when games no longer work on xp, i might build a dedicated games machine running vista, but only if i get to run those game in a high resolution(vistas "DRM" is designed to degrade imagequality of high quality sources, i have no idea why).



In two to four years support for xp will be gone. At that time I must find another operating system. MacOS might seem like a no-brainer but i tried that, here is that story in short:

i buy a brand new mac g3.
i buy brand new music software.
i expand the mac with more drives and memory.
i buy an expensive MIDI interface(which standalone is a MIDI router).

I spend NOK 30.000 all in all. Inflation adjusted that is somewhere between five and six thousand dollars.

I never used that computer for anything. I never wrote a single note of music on it. I bought hype. It was supposed to just work. No drivers.

But it didn't work.

Once when I broke its powersupply(takes five minutes or less to swap) I was stupid enough to give it to the mac people to fix. They spent three - 3 - months to replace the powersupply.

Once I lost the OS disc, apple refused to give me a new one, they expected me to *buy* the OS, which is incomprehensible, since I had already done that when I bought the machine.

Also, they kept changing the OS, which led to incompatibility.

A few years later I sold it for NOK 4000, that's 6-7 hundred dollars.

From my perspective, Apple deceived me and stole my money.

It is the only computer I have ever owned that I never used for anything.

It was useless.

I will never use a product created by apple again, at least not until they apologize and give me my money back.



So I must turn to homemade software. Linux.

I will spend the next few years finding the following software on linux:

an audio multitrack recorder and editor with unlimited samplerate and bitdepth, sampleaccurate editing, mix automation of at least volume and pan, vst plugins, and a pleasing color-scheme(more important than you think, software with white backgrounds i will never use). Oh and at least 128 tracks.

i will have to commision a programmer to write a driver for my soundcard.

a video multitrack editor with unlimited framrate, bitdepth and image size. It must be able to preview from RAM, have extensive color correction(like 50 different ways to alter the color green, not kidding), keying, resizing and repositioning with sub-pixel accuracy and be able to automate *every single parameter*(easily), a pleasing color-scheme. Oh and at least 1024 tracks. It should be able to edit mpeg2 and DV natively.

video encoding software supporting *all* variations of mpeg(i really mean all), divx, wmv and quicktime.

lightwave - I've been learning lightwave for 8 years now and feel like I have learned maybe 10%. I AM NOT STARTING AGAIN WITH SOMETHING ELSE. 3d software is way too complex.

a mediaplayer supporting 99% of the worlds formats.

I don't know if any of these things exists already, but I'll start looking. I suppose the most expensive part will the soundcard driver, to my knowledge there are zero pro audio cards with linux drivers.

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