Am i the only one who actually enjoys Windows Vista?

I agree with you for the most part, alot of trouble that was/is recurring is the fact that Manufacturers don't have Vista drivers for all of their products just yet, in fact, if for some reason a new motherboard you bought didn't have drivers for Windows XP you would be having the same troubles.

I do like Vista too, I think its great - I love Windows Aero and the awesome Search as you type function built straight into the menu bar. I hope this doesn't turn into a silly "Linux pwns Windows"/"Apple pwns Windows" because that will be off topic :P.

Tell us why you like Vista also. ^_^ 

we generally play around with it at work, so i've messed around with it off and on the the last few months through the betas and release. the problem with me is that it's straddling the line between 'good enough' and 'better.' as an overall OS for my needs, XP is 'good enough.' overall performance aside, vista does generally sit on the 'better' side, but when XP already suffices it's not worth paying the extra money and losing the compatibility i already have for the extra bells and whistles. i'll upgrade in the future most likely, but just not anytime soon.Makari

Thats different from the work side of things. You lose money on incompatibility, compatibility issues  are norm when a new OS comes out, but will eventually dissipate and then thats when alot of businesses will jump, but until then on the homefront it's a good OS.

I like windows vista, except for one really big problem

sometimes when it loads, it will load, and then for a split second will display the Blue screen of death, and then restart.

I have to run it in safe mode when this happens.

It seems to be happening a lot now

I loved windows vista. it was very fast and i loved the interface.

But i went back to windows XP because Vista wouldent let me open an executible file. an executible i knew wasent a virus. it made me very angry.

Also it wouldent quit asking me if i really wanted to open a program when i clicked on it. 

I loved windows vista. it was very fast and i loved the interface.

 

But i went back to windows XP because Vista wouldent let me open an executible file. an executible i knew wasent a virus. it made me very angry.

 

Also it wouldent quit asking me if i really wanted to open a program when i clicked on it. 

hofuldig

Did you get the "need admin approval or w/e message?" Cause you can override a bunch of stuff by opening as an admin :)

[QUOTE="Makari"]we generally play around with it at work, so i've messed around with it off and on the the last few months through the betas and release. the problem with me is that it's straddling the line between 'good enough' and 'better.' as an overall OS for my needs, XP is 'good enough.' overall performance aside, vista does generally sit on the 'better' side, but when XP already suffices it's not worth paying the extra money and losing the compatibility i already have for the extra bells and whistles. i'll upgrade in the future most likely, but just not anytime soon.aft_lizard01

Thats different from the work side of things. You lose money on incompatibility, compatibility issues are norm when a new OS comes out, but will eventually dissipate and then thats when alot of businesses will jump, but until then on the homefront it's a good OS.

I use Vista everyday and its not my cup of tea. Im still buying it, but only after they work on 64bit. I could careless about 32bit version. I am not too impressed with Vista so far. I honeslty like XP alot more then Vista and the only reason I am buying Vista is for Dx10. Other then that, Ill stick with my XP please. Ill also be putting it on a 2nd HDD. Its not going to be the main OS for me.

There is a rumor that Vista could be recalled? Heard its because its so damn hard to write drivers for Vista and its a huge complaint from nVidia, ATI and Creative, along with many printer manfacturers, networking companies, and wireless services.

Also why release a O/S now, when Vienna is on schedule for 2009?

Also why release a O/S now, when Vienna is on schedule for 2009?9mmSpliff

I use Vista everyday and its not my cup of tea. Im still buying it, but only after they work on 64bit. I could careless about 32bit version. I am not too impressed with Vista so far. I honeslty like XP alot more then Vista and the only reason I am buying Vista is for Dx10. Other then that, Ill stick with my XP please. Ill also be putting it on a 2nd HDD. Its not going to be the main OS for me.

There is a rumor that Vista could be recalled? Heard its because its so damn hard to write drivers for Vista and its a huge complaint from nVidia, ATI and Creative, along with many printer manfacturers, networking companies, and wireless services.

Also why release a O/S now, when Vienna is on schedule for 2009?

9mmSpliff

I believe 9MM you are the only person anywhere that ever mentions a recall. Besides it's an OS you don't recall, you have updates and sp packs.

My girlfriend's computer had Vista preinstalled, so we've had a taste of Vista the past few weeks. For general use it's nice...a bit too flashy, although the search function is certainly a huge improvement over XP's. And the Aero effects are kind of neat, I guess.

Our only major gripe is that iTunes is totally **bleep**ed to hell and back in Vista, whatever Apple would like to say to the contrary. Can't add music, and you can't sync to an iPod unless you plug it in and eject it as soon as possible (thus Vista is only good for charging iPods), or else you get a beautiful blue screen of death. Of course, you might get one anyway. I have a feeling the blame lies jointly on Apple and Microsoft there.

Needless to say, I won't be upgrading my laptop to Vista any time soon, with iTunes functionality being a big factor as an iPod without iTunes is garbage.

I have Vista and so far it's doing great. I'm having a problem where it won't shut down, just hangs at the desktop after everything's gone from it, but that's the only problem I'm having so far, and in looking into it I'm finding it's not a problem with Vista anyway, it's something I've done. Most of the people who bash it haven't tried it, they're just going off what other people have said. There are compatibility issues, yes, but very few to do with Vista in general, so I've found. Most of the compatibility issues I've had were due to me using a 64 bit version of Vista, not jsut due to Vista in general.

That being said, I will stick to XP for gaming until better drivers are released. 

I was using Vista Premium 64 bit edition and it was a hassle to say the least. More than half of my the applications I use on daily basis were not compatible, my Audigy 2 ZS wouldn't play any sound, when I installed Company of Heroes it said I didn't have a 3D accelerator even though I had just installed my 8800.PS2_ROCKS

Of course a 64 bit version of ANYTHING would have problems with 32 bit applications :P However, fact is the 64 version of Vista is more application friendly than the 64 bit version of xp. Your problems would remain constant whether you choose to use Vista or Xp in 64 bits. If you're going to use a 64 bit version of Vist, than dual boot a 32 bit version of Xp because currently there just isn't enough support for 64 bit Os's.

Anyways, peopple have always hated new Os's for the first year or so. The same exact thing happened with xp and 98 (ME actually WAS terrible).  

[QUOTE="PS2_ROCKS"]I was using Vista Premium 64 bit edition and it was a hassle to say the least. More than half of my the applications I use on daily basis were not compatible, my Audigy 2 ZS wouldn't play any sound, when I installed Company of Heroes it said I didn't have a 3D accelerator even though I had just installed my 8800.Nonam3gamer

Of course a 64 bit version of ANYTHING would have problems with 32 bit applications :P However, fact is the 64 version of Vista is more application friendly than the 64 bit version of xp. Your problems would remain constant whether you choose to use Vista or Xp in 64 bits. If you're going to use a 64 bit version of Vist, than dual boot a 32 bit version of Xp because currently there just isn't enough support for 64 bit Os's.

Anyways, peopple have always hated new Os's for the first year or so. The same exact thing happened with xp and 98 (ME actually WAS terrible).

I'm using 64bit XP now, and more applications work with it than with Vista. Some apps wouldn't run simply because they weren't compatible with Vista.

[QUOTE="9mmSpliff"]

I use Vista everyday and its not my cup of tea. Im still buying it, but only after they work on 64bit. I could careless about 32bit version. I am not too impressed with Vista so far. I honeslty like XP alot more then Vista and the only reason I am buying Vista is for Dx10. Other then that, Ill stick with my XP please. Ill also be putting it on a 2nd HDD. Its not going to be the main OS for me.

There is a rumor that Vista could be recalled? Heard its because its so damn hard to write drivers for Vista and its a huge complaint from nVidia, ATI and Creative, along with many printer manfacturers, networking companies, and wireless services.

Also why release a O/S now, when Vienna is on schedule for 2009?

aft_lizard01

I believe 9MM you are the only person anywhere that ever mentions a recall. Besides it's an OS you don't recall, you have updates and sp packs.

 Just telling you things I have read on NVnews, inquirer, on forums from Gamespot, XS and Extremeoverclockers.  Its a rumor like I said, that probably started at one source and travelled around the net.  I just personally do not enjoy Vista, but thats just me.  The best feature that I only like on Vista, is the improved Search feature.  Its jsut a little too flash and dash for me.  Like I said, if XP offered Dx10, I would stick with that.  I know O/Ses come with errors and bugs, but I think this is rather ridiculous.  But hey, seems like all in GS....no one has problems.