I think Vista haters are full of poo

WatchTower · 22 Apr 2008 at 18:49

I've had Vista for months now and all these bull crappy problems people keep going on about have not arisen not even one. People keep saying you probably don't do anything with it. I mainly Brows the net watch TV and BlueRay movies and play the latest games. I've suffered 0 issues no slow down issues not incompatibility issues, no blue screens no software refusing to run I mean no problems at all. So when I see or read people running it down I have no idea what they are talking about.

Equin0x · 22 Apr 2008 at 18:53

You must be one of the lucky ones then, who's install has been blessed by Bill.

Fire Wizard · 22 Apr 2008 at 18:55

Hello Equin0x, I noticed in another thread that you said that Windows Vista will never come into my house, any reason why you say that?

modo77 · 22 Apr 2008 at 18:58

Equin0x said:
You must be one of the lucky ones then, who's install has been blessed by Bill.

Snakedoctor · 22 Apr 2008 at 19:01

I have had one or two issues over the year or so I have had it. Once you are used to way it works and dont try and push your hardware too much then you are fine. Most problems I had were due to early driver versions and incompatible programs at first. These things you expect if you adopt an OS early and only improve with time.

Slinky1989 · 22 Apr 2008 at 19:01

I prefer vista to xp now especially with sp1. For one it looks a hell of a lot nicer, it's much MUCH easier to find things, and it's been more stable for me than xp ever was. Since building my pc last may, I've had ONE bsod and that was down to bad nvidia drivers.

So yes watch tower I agree with you entirely

Burnsy2023 · 22 Apr 2008 at 19:25

I was pretty much problem free before my mobo died

Burnsy

Dyson · 22 Apr 2008 at 19:34

I prefer using Vista to XP now, and i've only ever had one problem with Vista 64. When I built my comp there were no drivers for my USB Medusa's. Other than that, it's been great.

Equin0x · 22 Apr 2008 at 19:42

I just don't like Vista, got a copy of it from MSDN. My computer and I didn't get along with it, uninstalled it put XP back on. The taking for ever to delete files, UAC, the SP1 that "broke" a fair number of machines and then there was the update to be able to update to SP1.

Even Steve Ballmer has come out in criticism of Vista.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has admitted that Windows Vista is an incomplete product, even though the operating system has been on the market for more than a year.

Speaking at the firm's annual Most Valuable Professionals event in Seattle yesterday, Big Steve told the gathered crowd that the unloved OS was "a work in progress". According to reports, he also promised that Microsoft would learn from the mistakes it has made with Vista.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/ballmer_vista_incomplete/

Although I now only use XP for gaming (I can live without DX10 for the time being), everything else is done on Ubuntu.

Spyhop · 22 Apr 2008 at 19:45

I don't think it looks nice. The transparent Aero interface is brash and tasteless. Good thing you can turn it off.

TheVoice · 22 Apr 2008 at 19:46

Aero looks awesome, far better than the crappy XP themes.

Macro · 22 Apr 2008 at 19:47

Equin0x said:
Even Steve Ballmer has come out in criticism of Vista.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/ballmer_vista_incomplete/

Taken out of context.... All OS are work in progress, that's why everything from Linux via OSX to Windows gets continual updates, patches, new distros etc :rolleyes:

Frapple · 22 Apr 2008 at 19:48

Been 100% here, even on 64 bit.

Programming, gaming, music and movies.

Spyhop · 22 Apr 2008 at 19:50

TheVoice said:
Aero looks awesome, far better than the crappy XP themes.

XP Luna is dire as well. I meant the classic minimal theme.

Dazzy_G · 22 Apr 2008 at 19:51

Frapple said:
Been 100% here, even on 64 bit.

Programming, gaming, music and movies.

Same as.

Antar Bolaeisk · 22 Apr 2008 at 19:58

Having been using it myself for a while mainly because I fix a lot of computers and had to be experienced with the OS because a lot of people out there are having issues with it but I'm quite liking it and find myself using it more and more than XP. It'll take time to sort out all the bugs and make it completely stable (Not that any Microsoft OS can claim this) but XP wasn't exactly great when it came out either, it's taken time to become the stable system it is today.

d.chatten · 22 Apr 2008 at 19:59

Equin0x said:
The taking for ever to delete files, UAC, the SP1 that "broke" a fair number of machines and then there was the update to be able to update to SP1.

The issue with deleting files is fixed in SP1, with UAC you can disable it or you can customize the amount of prompts you receive, if you use the standalone SP1 installer you don't need any updates before the SP1 installation, you only need updates before SP1 installation if you are installing from WU, so the reasons you stated are pretty much flawed.

iMacMart · 22 Apr 2008 at 20:02

Been on Vista 64bit at home for months now, very stable, been on Vista 32bit at work for months too and all is well!

Still like XP pro but not as my main OS anymore

benjo plz. · 22 Apr 2008 at 20:06

Vista runs stable with no problems here, but it does have one or two niggles, like TrustedInstaller running in the background and killing the cpu, and SVChost doing similar.

Buffman · 22 Apr 2008 at 20:12

I've had no problems on my machine either with x64, I do use the media centre (watching tv) all the time now, the bundled software also has less bugs on this machine than my old xp pro SP2 =/