i have vista and i changed my default internet browser to firefox.... no problem

i never notice any problems with vista not being fast either... but my computer has a 5.4 vista experience score so it should do pretty good.

and as for security flaws, windows is attacked far more than any other OS.... mac has what? 5% market share? and linux distros arent even over 1%?
that leaves well over 90% of the population using windows computers.... which means for every 1 person who tries to exploit flaws in a mac theres 100 people trying to exploit flaws in windows.
i'm sure OS X has just as many flaws as vista, theres just nobody who exploits them.

and from a performance standpoint, SP1 supposedly really really improves vista's performance.

Vista is the plague of all operating systems. Using Vista is equivalent to saying, "I want to make my up-to-date hardware run as slow as possible. Maybe I can even reduce it pre-five-years-ago speeds!" But seriously, as previously mentioned, Vista has a ridiculously high memory and CPU usage. This is why Linux is so great: everything is able to be personalized! If you're like me and always set up your Windows XP machines to use no graphical effects and not use the Luna display theme because it will slow down your PC ever so little, you can find or make a Linux distribution that has a small footprint. Or, you can always continue to use a combination of XP and Linux like I do.

on some of the computers that I have used, it really slowed me down. couple that with the lack of compatibility with some programs, and it makes it a really tough operating system to get used to. Aside from that however, there are always bugs in a new OS, like XP for instance. It wasn't really a 'preferred' OS until like SP2, and at that point the majority of people started switching over from 98 and (ugh) ME.

That stated, I have used my step mom's computer, which has Vista on it, just to surf the web and whatnot, and it really is a nice operating system both in looks and performance, as long as you have the equipment to run it well, and aren't attempting to use anything that is not compatible with it.

People Irritate me with their Useless Vista sucks rants. There is nothing wrong with the actual operating system that makes it run slow. If you have under 1.5 gb of ram its going to run regular but not fast. If you have 2+ gb of ram it will run great. Its a highly graphical system. The only people that hate it are computer illiterate people who can't read the box that has minimum or "recommended requirements". If your computer doesn't meet them then don't get it. The only reason to really get it is on a new BUILT for vista computer. Memory is cheap anyway, you can get 4 gb of ram on newegg for around $120 dollars. 4 gb of ram will make vista run fine seeing that you have a good processor and a decent video card. For the video card you need a minimum of 128 mb just for vista. Yes it may hog it, but vista was built for computers with good hardware. To meet the reccomended requirements may not be enough. But the reccomended is not always whats best.

Hate the computer not the operating system.
Hawk

Really? Is that so?

Well that's a shame since most games today will take all that ram away and you'll be using your oh-so-fast swap file.

Or not. Well, unless you want crap.


Even though it does I still wont get it.

Please tell me why I would knowingly install a hog onto my computer. What kind of magic is it able to do since it requires so much?


Or not. You'll be hating your wallet later.

Also, I love how your post says and then later it says
I just find that hilarious. Oh, and welcome to Trap17.

This post has been edited by dre: Feb 11 2008, 01:31 AM

The colossal number of background processes may have something to do with the poor performance, along with the GUI taking up more processing power than it should, even at the graphical levels being used. If Microsoft had really thought about it, optimised the graphics and background processes, and allowed more tuning for how the graphics look, then performance might not be so much of an issue.



I rather take offence at being told that I can't read. I think you'll find that a large number of literate people also hate Vista. For example, a large proportion of the open source community hate it. People who have boxes popping up every 30 seconds asking for permission to do something are also getting pretty annoyed with it. People who find their hardware and software suddenly doesn't work are quite annoyed too. Laptop owners who find their batteries draining like charge is going out of fashion also hate Vista. And, of course, each of those people also fits into the group who has to pay around £200 for this dud operating system.



A large number of manufacturers are selling computers with Vista that meet the requirements, and still run slow. They are built specifically for Vista and it still doesn't work!



4GB of unbranded RAM is around £60 (120 USD). If you want RAM that will actually work, you can get 4GB of Corsair RAM for around £80 (160 USD). That new DX10 graphics card you need is around another £50 to £70 depending on whether you want something from a good name (even those these prices are for the bare minimum required). Then you need the operating system. XP is roughly £50. Vista? £197.36! So that is a total cost of around £300 to £350, without upgrading your processor, motherboard or any peripherals that aren't going to work with Vista.

Alternatively, of course, I save all that money and run KDE4 with Compiz Fusion to get all the glossy effects people love so much for £0.00, after spending £0.00 on required hardware upgrades of course. Wow, that's a saving of at least £300...

Some like it, some don't! Let's think about it from another point of view. Vista was a big big boom and bam that Microsoft tried to make a few years ago, but they ran into A LOT of problems trying to make a new great operating system that would close anti-microsoft mouths around the world....the failed BUT there was the promise and they waited as long as they could to create something that is not completely bad, but of course it is not great as promised. So yeah this is how it is, it is an ok operating system with all the latest things you need, but it runs slowly, sometimes just too slow and works well only on the latest computers...

I think that we should all wait for the new so called "Windows Vienna" or something like that which is again, PROMISED to be really new with completely new code from scratch...and I hope that they will make it with vienna..but problems are inevitable even with that high amount of money involved...

OK what i hate and what i like in windows vista

first what i like will Microsoft are a thief

thy stole most of Linux stuff like
Linux command line

commands like "kill" was one of the best in Linux
and Meany moor

i think allot of people did complain about boor command line of windows
will vista is much beater
in this side now

and the eay candy stuff
i did try Linux with Beryl 3d effects

and it much much much beater than Windows vista
but the only way to use Windows vista is that most of

mobile software work only under windows

so I'm stuck with vista
by the way i did use the same 3d effects and even beater on Linux with only 256 MB of ram

but when it come to vista 1GB of ram is not good to run the system

and i think that the next windows will need 4 GB of ram at last just to be installed

by the way my MB maximum capletey of ram is 4GB
are you still asking why we didn't like vista much


This post has been edited by zamaliphe: Feb 11 2008, 11:01 AM