Vista Not all that bad

[MendoDave]

I have been using this Vista on a Dell Lap top now for about 2 months. Its kind of a slick OS.
No problems so far.

Im also trying AVIRA Free Antvirus software. so far no problems there either.

[herm]

my vista experience remained pleasant right until the first update...
downhill from there. 
tried to get dell to give me a revert copy of XP...no love.

[He Man]

i have an original dell restore cd if you wanna give it a try it. It was for my laptop, but it worked on any dell computer i could find. but most of those computers were XP native.


I am using Vista right now. First time. It runs pretty good. 64bit OS though, so somethings dont work right (like autocad). I also have 32bit vista on my moms PC, and it is absolutely HORRIBLE. you NEED 4gb minimum, and you need to shut of certain things to make it run smoothly.

[cdnrcr]

my vista experience remained pleasant right until the first update...
downhill from there. 
tried to get dell to give me a revert copy of XP...no love.

+11ty billion

[Jarvicious]

I haven't used Vista extensively since I used to work on them, but wasn't SP1 supposed to help a lot of the issues?  As far as streamlining goes, please please please disable the user account control.  It will make your life much easier.  I think XP can still be found if you look in the right place *cough, torrents, cough*. 

[il d00d]

Don't currently run it, but used it enough to know that I am going to wait it out.

I will say I am fundamentally opposed to OS bloat.  Allow me to me slip on my Mac fanboy hat for a moment.  OK, cocked to the side just so, nose elevated 45 degrees...

The first few iterations of OSX actually ran *faster* than the ones they preceded on the same hardware.  This is including all the spiffy transparency stuff I was running (and still run) on a G4 1.2ghz processor with 512M of slow-ass RAM.  Of course they did sudo-like permissions on stuff (and got it right) long before windows was thinking about it.  (They can thank 30 years of BSD development for that, but still.  At least they stole right.)

So, lemme say, I am glad you like it.  There are things to like about it - the way it looks and the things it fixed about XP.  But I think Vista will go down as the Windows ME of its time.

[OverCaffeinated]

I agree with il d00d. I've also got a powerbook g4 with osx 10.5 and 1gb ram, and runs about as fast a my pc desktop at work that has 3.6ghz processor.

I'm sure vista run well all on it's own, but it's when you start loading third party software you'll see what happens.

[Jarvicious]

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But I think Vista will go down as the Windows ME of its time.

Oh come on now.  Have you USED ME?  I get a headache thinking about it.

[He Man]

Oh come on now.  Have you USED ME?  I get a headache thinking about it.

+1, vista is nothing like ME. Me was just a horrible excuse of an OS. Its like the bastard child of everything unholy.

I have no issues with Vista right now even with the dozens of programs ive loaded up onto it. Works great, (aside from 64bit compatibility issues) but thats why im triple booting Vista 64, Ubutnu 64 and XP 32bit.

Macintosh, well...sorry....Just like people dont like vista. I dont like macs. But then again, im against anything apple to begin with.

[OverCaffeinated]

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Macintosh, well...sorry....Just like people dont like vista. I dont like macs. But then again, im against anything apple to begin with.

Don't worry you'll come around...Everybody does...

First I had an ipod, then iphone, now powerbook. The stuff just works.

That being said, all those items are used for personal entertainment use. For work and serious computing I do prefer a pc, XP more specifically. A pc is necessary for Solidworks and other cad systems

[il d00d]

Oh come on now.  Have you USED ME?  I get a headache thinking about it.

I am not ready... to talk about that.







To be a little clearer, I mean they both suffered from underdevelopment.  I don't remember how a cosmetic upgrade resulted in the digital catastrophe that ME was, but Vista's history reads like a cautionary tale.  It went way past deadlines until they started from scratch way too soon before releasing into the wild.  I don't think it stood a chance.  It is far more usable, to be sure, but I don't think Vista as an end product is what they had in mind.

[Jarvicious]

I do agree with the fact that they didn't put enough into it.  It's not that they didn't have enough time either.  XP ran for years and years while they worked on Vista as a kind of side project, and they STILL weren't ready.  Vista is clearly (and loosely) based on XP though, so they got lucky in that respect.  The problem is that the vast majority of people thet buy these machines don't know the difference, so Microsoft can sell whatever they want. 

[He Man]

Don't worry you'll come around...Everybody does...

Yea like hell.

I had an ipod, sold it, went with a zune. :p best decision ever. aside from the YK9 issue. The closest thing to Mac id touch is Ubuntu, which is loosely what OSX is based on. Just a crappier version.

[OverCaffeinated]

Yea like hell.

I had an ipod, sold it, went with a zune. :p best decision ever. aside from the YK9 issue. The closest thing to Mac id touch is Ubuntu, which is loosely what OSX is based on. Just a crappier version.

I like your thread "God damn it Microsoft". 
Ok I'm done messen.

But I do have to ask how you obtained a 20006 S2R 1000?

[il d00d]

Yea like hell.

I had an ipod, sold it, went with a zune. :p best decision ever. aside from the YK9 issue. The closest thing to Mac id touch is Ubuntu, which is loosely what OSX is based on. Just a crappier version.

I'm not going to proselytize (any more) about Mac, but I am curious - what you don't like about the OS?

OSX is based on BSD, and Unbuntu is linux.  They have common ancestors, but OSX is not based on Unbuntu in any way.