Vista Sucks!

**w31n3r** · February 11th, 2008, 06:10 AM

vista sucks, so whats new. everytime something new comes out, it's bound to have it's fair share of problems. and it could be worse, windowsME anyone?

personally, i was quite impressed by it, a friend has it and i spent a couple of hours on his puter setting up his home network, seemed to work fine the whole while, and actually i thought it was quite intuitive *ducks to avoid flying objects thrown in protest*

err, but then a few hours don't me an expert...

Originally Posted by evilmegaman

I am waiting for KDE 4.0 to mature a bit more, then I am going back to linux. I have been using vista for reasons of mostly laziness. I just can't turn off the computer long enough to deal with installing linux -_-

bang on the money! when i first saw it, i was completely bowled over and decided moving over to linux. i don't play games much these days so i don't need windows anymore(i think), i just hope they've sorted out the the networking config bit. i'll give myself a few months to come to terms with linux, else it's back to XP for another few months till i get vista at the end of the year, when it'll be worth the money.

**curlywagner** · February 11th, 2008, 07:29 AM

You guys can always test out Linux if you install VMWare on Vista/XP and build a Linux virtual machine. Download an iso of your chosen distro, mount it on the virtual machine's CD drive and you're away -> http://www.vmware.com/download/server/

**Krell** · February 11th, 2008, 07:52 AM

Originally Posted by curlywagner

You guys can always test out Linux if you install VMWare on Vista/XP and build a Linux virtual machine. Download an iso of your chosen distro, mount it on the virtual machine's CD drive and you're away -> http://www.vmware.com/download/server/

Do you see the strange irony in your statement?

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**curlywagner** · February 11th, 2008, 07:53 AM

Not at this moment. You mean running Windows and Linux together?

**Krell** · February 11th, 2008, 08:08 AM

You suggest that one has a PC with enough resources to run a Windows OS, load VMWare and then successfully load ANOTHER OS and try it out, in order to get away from the OS your running VMWare on.

If your PC can do that, I think you probably just need to learn to properly configure your system and turn off the things you dont really need. By the time you do that, Linux isnt much of an advantage.

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**curlywagner** · February 11th, 2008, 08:17 AM

Lol, I see what you mean. I did suggest that people turn off stuff they don't need a few pages back in order to optimise the OS. This was more directed at EMM and W31n3r who are hesitant about loading Linux. For the purposes of learning/testing out Linux, a VMWare install beats the Hell out of dual-booting/overwriting your Windows install.
I agree with you, the first step for anyone complaining about Vista's performance is to configure their system properly.

**flyingmunky25** · April 1st, 2008, 09:15 PM

Vista is truely a piece of garbage...but I must have been one of the few lucky people. so far no problems with it. I've had it for about 8 months now and it runs just pretty darn fast. I have it running on a core duo 1.6ghz, 2 gig ram, and only a radeon x1300.....so I don't even have a very powerful machine (its a laptop for that matter too)...
now that I say I don't have problems with it...I bet tonight i'll have a shit load of issues. thankfully I still have xp still dual booted on here...

**flyingmunky25** · April 1st, 2008, 09:21 PM

While on the topic of windows...and how vista sucks...Which OS do you all think was the best? I'm guessing there will be alot of XP Pro answers...

**w31n3r** · April 1st, 2008, 11:44 PM

i still cherish my copy of windows 98SE, even though it isn't supported by anyone anymore :(

**Boomer The Dog** · April 2nd, 2008, 08:15 AM

My mom started with Windows 95! I have a few disks of '95, and even found one in an old computer once. Imagine, on a new computer, it would probably boot in 5 seconds.

Maybe instead of trying to make Vista for those micro notebooks like the Eee-PC, maybe Microsoft could 'modernize' '95 or '98 for them. I'm sure that '98 is still fine for lots of things on the web, even being almost 10 years old.

In 1998 I had a CompUSA by my house, and there were lines of people outside, waiting for the launch of Win98, it was that much of an improvement! It's like when Apple releases a new product now.

**Andrew110** · April 2nd, 2008, 08:32 AM

Always nice to (woof) see you boomer!

**flyingmunky25** · April 2nd, 2008, 10:04 AM

Yeah 98 was great. once i was looking around my house and i found all my win 3.1 disks and i even found a windows 1.0 disk!!!! Windows 2k was even a decent OS.

**tokoloshe** · April 2nd, 2008, 10:54 AM

June 30 is the proposed date when M$ will command vendors to stop bundling XP with new machines, but the date is not concrete yet

**Boomer The Dog** · April 2nd, 2008, 11:25 AM

Yeah Andrew 110, I check here at least a few times a day, and I learn a lot. I have a little while to go to get to 369 posts though..

Windows 1.0, that must be from like 25 years ago, and probably so small it fits on one floppy. Windows 2000 is still great, and that's maybe the best choice for micro notebooks, since it wouldn't take up much of the flash hard drive or ram, even compared to full XP.

2000 has no activation like XP either, making it easier to install on a computer and make hardware changes. For everyday use, 2K is great! There's an 'Unofficial Service Pack 5.1' that you can use to bring it up to date too.

I read that XP execution article, and Microsoft comes across as some kind of a king or something, with dominion over how XP must be used: Oh yes, we agree to extend the availability of XP in emerging markets.. It's like they have a faucet that they can just turn off on the customers who like a beloved product that we want, and what about us, I thought that 'the customer is always right'.

Microsoft might as well have a built-in timer, like 6 years after release, it just stops working and you have to buy new Windows. There's lots of fear-mongering going on right now, telling people that their TVs will stop working next year, and that they must give up their Windows.

**Theinfamousone** · April 2nd, 2008, 04:55 PM

Originally Posted by flyingmunky25

While on the topic of windows...and how vista sucks...Which OS do you all think was the best? I'm guessing there will be alot of XP Pro answers...

I have to admit, I've become somewhat of a mac fanboy. As much as I love dealing with random things not working, and taking shots in the dark at what to turn off that's jacking up my computer, Leopard is working very well for me. I recently bought a new Macbook Pro (after I sold my Powerbook of 2 years) and it's very nice. I am running VMWare Fusion so I can run Windows XP Pro (with a Vista skin) and Leopard simultaneously. I keep windows clean as a whistle because I don't use it for day to day stuff, just if I specially need a windows only app like Virtualdub or something. With spaces, you can run them side by side and a button toggles between them. If I don't want to waste the resources of running both, I can have it close the Windows window and it will just open up software straight from Leopard so I literally have the best of both worlds. The stability, simplicity, and power of an Apple Unix based system and the ability to virtually (pun intended) use any software you can think of.