I have been willing to give it a chance as I was given a nice new PC at my work, it seemed to be perfectly ok no serious software issues (as I had previously heard) and although they have nicked Apples “look” it does look quite cool.
BUT, and here’s the problem, it’s so slow and stupid and useless unless you have a huge amount of memory. I do web design work and a bit of design therefore I usually have Firefox, Photoshop and (sadly) Dreamweaver open. As soon as you try and do anything remotely interesting in photoshop the system just freezes and takes forever to do anything its very crap, my pc at home has no problems and it definately isn’t as modern or as powerful as my work PC, but it works on XP a system that while a bit bugged out actually works and doesn’t use all your bloody memory just to run.
DO NOT BUY VISTA! Waste of money, ask any shop to replace it with XP and give you the difference in cash if you buy a new PC, much better deal.
Eh, Vista is…decent…though I feel your pain with the design thing. It makes it a hassle sometimes to work in Blender…but my old XP computer was a PoS anyway, so it wasn’t too tough a transition.
The most annoying part for me with Vista was that it was incompatible with some of my favorite games…I almost cried when I found out I couldn’t play Diablo 2 any more.
I haven’t booted to Windows at all in over 2 months. I started using Ubuntu Linux, and I don’t think I’ll ever go back. It is harder, with some terminal (command line) stuff, but it gets the job done faster, cheaper, and geekier.
When you use and know Linux, you’re a computer geek. When you are a wizard at Windows, you are a Windows sheep…geek.
Oh, that’s unfortunate cause I’m about to install Vista on my home computer this weekend. In the process of cleaning up my mess of My Documents files so I can get them transfered over all nice and neat like.
If I’m no online here after the weekend send out a rescue crew to save me.
The best part about Vista is that it is forcing the software companies to design and write their software better. They can’t play as fast and loose as they could before. Vista don’t like you writin to INI files in the Program Files directory. Vista don’t like lots of things that are sloppy. That’s good. I’m tired of crap software that behaves like it was running in Windows 3.1 back in 1992. Write your software for the modern age. Write it so it properly supports multiple users and multiple accounts. Write it so it doesn’t need to be run with administrator privileges. That’s why you want Vista. Cause it kicks the software developers in the ass and forces them to clean up their mess.
There’s some more things that I want to slap some developers about as well. But I’ll start with slapping them with Vista and then go on from there.
When you know Linux you are expected to work on free software. When you work on Windows they pay ya.
Too bad OpenOffice sucks. It has lots of features and has the checkmarks covered in the various feature matrices. But on a usability standpoint it sucks. Every time I use it I am amazed at how hard it is to get it to do things that are simple and quick in MS Office or even MS Works.
Oh, and I have the latest Kubuntu installed to. Dual bootin. I’m hip.
Apparantly Windows Vista Service Pack 1 should be out before too long, hopefully that will fix some of the hardware compatability issues. If you are going to run Vista I suggest getting at least 4mb of memory or more.
I’ve never used used Linux before i’m not geeky or technically minded enough to actually use it but my friend uses it quite often and it does look quite good and you never have to worry about virus’ either on it.
You’re going to be wasting about a GB of RAM if you get 4GB of RAM for a 32-bit OS. Here’s the geek version why: Dude, Where’s My 4 Gigabytes of RAM?
And on the subject of memory use and Vista… Why Does Vista Use All My Memory? Good question, seems there’s a good reason for that. Anyone who has taken computer science knows all that already, but it seems the rest of the world needs it explained to them. Unused RAM is wasted RAM. Why do you bother getting 2 or 3 GB of RAM if the OS and applications only use less than 1GB of it in normal use? That’s wasted RAM. Vista to the rescue. Be happy your RAM is now getting a workout.
The only reason I see for xp is to make my creative zen work, so I just put that on my wife’s computer instead. I’m not screwing with a setup that’s been 100% stable on my computer with no bugs for the last several years. Don’t fix it if it ain’t broke.
Yes! I’m sticking with Windows 2000 as long as I can.
But for the ultimate in reliability (for Windows), I think Windows NT 3.51 can’t be beat. I don’t really know that for sure – I’d be curious what others* think. Remember that on NT, drivers (and the GDI) didn’t run in the kernel. This made the whole system more reliable (and a little slower). I think I’m going to fire it up in a VM. I wonder if modern software will run on it. Come to think of it, with today’s ultra-fast machines, why don’t they go back to that safer design (of not having the whole world, including third-party drivers, run in the kernel, where it can take down the whole machine)?
Haha that’s the spirit Seager! Though there are definitely a lot of reasons why XP beats 2000, but I’d have to sound really geaky for bringing up some of my reasons.
Vista has that problem that it’s advanced to the point that it assumes all the computer hardware it will be using is about 5 years more advanced than most of what’s out now. It’s trying to run too much stuff on not-fast-enough hardware.
That would be Vista. One of the changes is that more of the drivers have been moved from the kernel to user land. That’s one reason why many drivers have had to be rewritten for Vista.
Cool. I obviously don’t know anything about Vista. I’ve been stuck on 2000 and haven’t paid much attention to any newer (and presumably crappy) versions of Windows. Also, another reason I’m stuck in the past is that I don’t like software activation.
My laptop came with XP Home (a few years ago), but I just finally put 2000 on that machine and I’m much happier now. Ironically, soon after that, I came across a need for XP, so now I’m running XP again – in a (vmware) vm on that machine.
I dont have a high end machine. Seriously, Its a pentium 3 700 mhz processor that I have set to 800.
I also have windows vista on my machine, and it runs everything faster than XP. Photpshop runs fine, at the same time as Cubase runs fine when recording music, and premiere runs fine when loading video into and doing lots of editing steps.
Ive ran all three at the same time, as with some internet windows, and realplayer and all the other programs I usually run at the same and it was smooth.
Then I paused what i was doing, put an emulator up and played Secret of Evermore or awhile. No lag.
