the only people that say it sucks are the ones that either have never used it or are computer morons. i set up a dual boot with vista and xp last month, havent booted to xp in about 3 weeks
I like Vista just fine. Have not had any problems really. I dual booted Vista Premium 64 bit with XP cause I expected all sorts of problems with drivers and whatnot.
I have been so pleased with Vista, I have only booted up XP like twice in the last month.
i have a dual boot also, and i use vista for a few things, and i will use it for halo 2, but i mostly still use xp, i have hardware problems with my mobo, and xp works better, when i build a new pc, i will use vista.
It's exactly like when xp launched, Vista is nice in a lot of ways, but it's still a very immature operating system, things will improve and adoption will increase eventually.
As stated above, most of the people who dislike Vista have never actually used it, meaning their accusations/assumption about the OS are false. I'm running Vista Ultimate 64-bit, and I haven't encountered a problem yet.
i got vista soon after launch. installed it. had alot of driver issues with alot of my hardware. the OS died after 3 weeks and required a format and reinstall (tried repairing and all that....no good). chucked it and put XP back on for now. that was my first experience with vista and it was horrible. the only OS that i had a worse time with was ME (man was that a crap OS).
in fairness im hearing that the drivers are alot better now. i will try and install it again at some stage but it wont be until well after SP1 is out. theres not much out for DX10 anyway (certainly nothing to go nuts over) so XP is fine for me.
the problem is incompatibility, i think it's the security that's the problem .dll files can't be created for some reason so things like multiplayer quake is impossible and it messes up on punkbuster. Also it sometimes recognizes disks that they have data on them but you can't explore the disk or run it.
I have been using Vista since 2 weeks before it launched (developer's license). I have seen some problems with DRIVERS, especially nVidia. But have had little problem from the OS itself.
People correlate drivers issues as problems with the OS. Maybe they should blame the company that wrote the drivers.
Vista does use more memory, so I upgraded. The same people that complain about it will buy a 400$ video card to run a new game, hypocrits.
I admit I haven't used it, but my main issue with vista is that from what I heard and read (I know, I know.. :) ) it's not a big improvement over XP. It therefore seems a lot like MS is using their monopoly (which they created through some questionable practices) to make money on something you don't really need (which wouldn't be the first time..) but is more or less forced upon you. But hey, capitalism has it's up-sides and I'll probably get vista too once I upgrade my pc. :)
I've been using Vista (Ultimate 64 bit) since late February. The only problem I've had with it is program incompatibility, though a good number of compatibility issues I've had were down to problems with 64-bit OSs, not Vista specifically. My current specs include and ATI Radeon X300 graphics card, 512MB DDR RAM (x2, so I have about 1GB total) and an AMD Athlon 3200, which I believe has a speed of 2.00 GHz. On those specs Vista runs at an acceptable speed, occasionally I have issues but for the most part it's stable. Usually when idle it uses up roughlt 500MB of RAM, though if you want to lower that you can disable Windows Sidebar and DWM.exe (which does the transparent effects for AERO). Though most of my RAM usage comes from an SVCHost process that I have no idea what to do with. So far it's only crashed on me once, and that was entirely my fault. I've found it has a better handling of non-responsive and crashed programs than XP did. I didn't find User Account Control annoying (my firewall on XP was worse), but if it does annoy you, you can of course turn it off.
Um, because it is a resource hog right now, it takes awhile with all new hardware/software to make new, proper drivers. And people feel they shouldn't have ot upgrade for something that isn't that much better feature wise to play dx10 games.
All those things aside I bought Vista at release and haven't really used xp too much since then.
i have vista, i ran it on my old machine, but it would slow up, reduce performance, and there were program incompatablities. Mind you it wasnt that bad. The main reason why i took it off was because it wouldnt let me dual boot with my old xp hdd (which tbh was more important) and it would crash. Now, my new pc supports dx10, 64bit, plenty of RAM etc, but im not installing it until SP1 at least, i am perfectly happy with XP for the time being.
when xp came out, that was a system hog, and with the price of ram going down... its just the cycle of life. i remember when my dad payed 200 bucks for a 1 gig HD, wow that was huge!!
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