I'm stuck in hell right now, the hell known as Windows XP, trying to make it usable to see if I can duplicate a platform specific bug in some of my code using Norman's Nightly Psi Build. Unfortunately it requires Visual C++'s debug runtime, so I'm installing the Visual Studio.NET beta Microsoft kindly mailed me back when I was subscribed to Dr. Dobb's Journal.
It's taking it's time to install too. I went out to take the trash and inhale some trash while this trash was installing. It said it was going to be twenty minutes when I did that, but after five minutes it now says 32 minutes. Twenty minutes was long, but shesh. That's some terrible estimation the installer has done.
At least one thing went right. Windows needed to be activated because the 30 days had past. It dialed some 1-800 number and I guess it got activated. It didn't take long at all.
I'm also noticing that Windows appears quicker than X. Even Firefox appears quicker. I'm left wondering why that's so along with why this popup window from Viewpoint just popped up. I don't recall Viewpoint.
/me investigates.
fast... at a cost
When you embed everything and the kitchen sink into the OS kernel it is bound to perform a bit better. But at what cost?
And yes, I feel your pain. I have to build on win32 about once a week... its horrible.