To Vista or not to Vista?

Iwo Jim · 12-05-2007, 08:41 AM,

That is the question.....thinking of getting a new laptop and I've heard about a lot of problems with Vista I'm wondering if I should just stick with good ole' XP or not anybody have any opinons on this?

Weasel · 12-05-2007, 10:01 AM,

I know someone else brought this up not too long ago here. I had it installed, for about 12 hours! However, General SP (Gary) loves it.

I guess it boils down to how old the software is you are trying to run. I guess it works with the new stuff, but my Band of Brothers: Earned in Blood would not, as neither would my de-fragmentation program.

Weasel · 12-05-2007, 10:03 AM,

here ya go:

https://www.theblitz.club/message_boards...#pid225625

https://www.theblitz.club/message_boards...?tid=41512

RedDevil · 12-05-2007, 11:03 AM,

I initially had vista on my new Desktop for 2 weeks in March, installed a copy of XP onto it until September, I then reformatted and put Vista back on and have not had a system lockup or issue with the exception of Windows mail (vista's answer to outlook express) I use Firefox browser and thunderbird Email with no problems at all.

Vista is a pain in the ass to people who love to tinker or do geeky things with their PC, It's a great OS for anyone who simply turns on the PC and does whatever. My 74 yr old father can manage Vista because it's the 1st OS he's ever used and it's simple enough for him.

older programs will run under some duress and many have updates that allow them to run now. Some programs sadly will not run, but AFAIK ALL of our war games here run on vista with some sort of setting or another.

Chris, vista Self defrags in the background, I've yet to get above 1% fragmentation since September and I was a weekly fan of checking stuff like that :)

Vista has been around long enough to encourage developers to modify their software to work. companies are making patches for hardware issues.. the eventual faults of vista drivers and incompatibilities will be overtaken.

it's all a matter of accepting change right now.. or waiting a year or so, and being behind that much further when you finally do make the switch.

eventually Direct X10 will become the standard and XP cannot emulate that and it will become a pasttime like ME and Win95 did.

there's a lot more support groups out there now and many of the issues I've read about appear to be user fault or old hardware driver failures, rather than OS bugs.

Grumbler · 12-05-2007, 11:13 AM,

Meanwhile, there is a new Linux out that will run Vista as a program. My brother has it and he's very happy. Says it is a true turn key Linux and a free download.
When My XP gets out I'll be shed of Microsucks once and for all. Looking at Vista sales, I would say that there are a lot of people that think the same as I do. Microsucks has managed to get at least half the computer users on this planet pissed off at them. That arrogance will come back to bite them. The lying cheating and general dirty tactics have already cost Microsoft their Market share among corporations.
So if you are looking to the future, don't look toward Redmond, Washington. It would be like investing in dinosaurs when there is a BIG comet in the sky.

General SP · 12-05-2007, 02:29 PM,

RedDevil Wrote:Vista is a pain in the ass to people who love to tinker or do geeky things with their PC, It's a great OS for anyone who simply turns on the PC and does whatever. My 74 yr old father can manage Vista because it's the 1st OS he's ever used and it's simple enough for him.

Vista has been around long enough to encourage developers to modify their software to work. companies are making patches for hardware issues.. the eventual faults of vista drivers and incompatibilities will be overtaken.

eventually Direct X10 will become the standard and XP cannot emulate that and it will become a pasttime like ME and Win95 did.

there's a lot more support groups out there now and many of the issues I've read about appear to be user fault or old hardware driver failures, rather than OS bugs.

Vista is all about the hardware. It will run on older systems like mine for example (2.4 ghz 3 gb SLI video ) however it runs best on the newer stuff. Dual core works the best and unless you are running the 64bit version of it, you really do not need any more memory over 3gb. The new laptops Jim should run it very well. I always have occasional shutdowns from time to time but then again due to the older hardware I am using.

As far as tweeking it, almost the same as XP. Same registry system but way better user functions and the parental controls work very very well. Minesweeper rocks in Vista! I guess I can live with tempermental side of it until they get it stable. I remember when i considered many times reloading Windows 98 because I was tired of XP's unstableness! :)

Vesku · 12-05-2007, 04:45 PM,

Vista looks pretty and eats all resources from your PC, you need a new to get it working well. I'm happy with it in my work PC which is dual core but it needs tweaking, there's tons of useless services and processes running on the background. Once you get rid of all see-through and other useless crap it's quite fast and steady.

I'd still wait for the SP1 to appear which should be early next year.

brm_3k · 12-05-2007, 11:06 PM,

Compared to my two year old PC with XP, my friends new one with Vista is slow and not user friendly eg where is the "my computer" icon ??

I'll be sticking with XP for now

Alex
brm_3k

RedDevil · 12-05-2007, 11:21 PM,

brm_3k Wrote:Compared to my two year old PC with XP, my friends new one with Vista is slow and not user friendly eg where is the "my computer" icon ??

I'll be sticking with XP for now

Alex
brm_3k

it's there on the desktop, perhaps he must have inadvertently deleted it :)

Weasel · 12-06-2007, 06:23 AM,

My bottom of the suggestion: If XP is doing everything you want it to do, with little or no fuss, then why mess with it. You know the old saying "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".