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I fucking hate this operating system after using it a little over a month now.

But the weather!

haha I like it but I had to remove RC2 because I couldn't run everything on it yet.

you used to hate WoW too

The neat things about Vista are Aero, the sidebars, and the new search. Since I don't use search for anything Vista offers little to me. The only thing I really am interested in is DX10 and I don't think that'll be worthwhile for at least a year.

The advanced DRM also sucks ass. Vista's DRM software kills the quality of High Definition DVDs unless you have a monitor with tspecial DRM technology embedded into it There are also other locks which to me make Vista worse than XP.

lyion wrote:The advanced DRM also sucks ass.

This is why I had to uninstall it. It fucked up all my downloaded music from napster (legal stuff not the old shared crap).

XP has been very good for me, I'll probably just ebay my vista keys, ahah

I am checking out a copy of Vista Ultimate. No opinion good or bad yet. Inevitably my customers will want it so I might as well get used to it.

I'm digging it so far. It's nothing like windows me at all. This has been very stable, not a single crash or anything and all of my hardware has worked great so far.

I have no complaints yet but we'll see.

What version of vista do you guys have?

Ultimate

Tossica wrote:I am checking out a copy of Vista Ultimate. No opinion good or bad yet. Inevitably my customers will want it so I might as well get used to it.

jesus toss...just cause they have it. does not mean you have to have it too.. What would happen if you were a male OBGYN?

Phlegm wrote:What version of vista do you guys have?

Ultimate 32bit, better driver support for for now.

Harrison wrote:I fucking hate this operating system after using it a little over a month now.

Microsoft said that it is slower than other versions of Windows and will slow down your system a bit. That was enough for me to... /pass

Sure doesn't act slower than my XP system. All my games are running great and the OS is more responsive than ever. I think alot of what people are scared of is the bigger demand on the hardware. I think where it will certainly act slower is if you don't have enough RAM and end up paging to disk. I have 2 gigs of ram so that's not an issue for me but it could easily be for others.

It's not for everyone though, if you're not having any problems with XP why upgrade then? I'm a nerd so I wanted the latest OS and as I suspected it the released version runs much better than the RC build I had installed. Even all my music issues have been resolved.

runamonk. I have been watching that damn icon of your for about 3weeks. where the hell did you find it. kudos on it.

A friend here at the office sent it to me. We giggled for hours about it hehe.

ok to sum up...

1) not compatible with alot of older games.
2) slower than other O/S
3) Expensive as hell
4) rapes MP3's
5) very hardware restrictive.

Yeah Ill run right out and buy it.

Actually it's not that's not compatible with older games, it's that it's not compatible with older WEB based games, even the ones from microsoft LOL.

it's not the hardware, it's the drivers. Microsoft forced a revise of all hardware drivers and they all have to be certified now.

It's not as expensive as it could be, I got my copy of ultimate for 199. You could easily buy the upgrade version and install it right over the top of a clean system and not install the key, then turn around an upgrade vista from vista and then use your upgrade key - which shouldn't work but because of a bug it does work. I wish I had gotten that now lol.

The release version didn't do anything to my music and it wasn't an issue with vista but with napster. Napster's software is quite buggy and they haven't updated the plugin for close to six months.

The only thing vista does attempt to stop people from stealing music, which I don't do.

Kahar, what kind of tech establishment do you work for that you can't get a free copy of Vista?

He doesn't anymore. He's now Director of IT for a private school...

ironic, no?

Once vista gets driver support comparable to XP I will get a copy.

It sucks balls as of now. Runs my games like shit, shitty driver support, RESOURCE HOG, and tries to do WAY too much automagically.

i got a free upgrade with my laptop, but i'm not sure I'm going to bother with it for a while

yay for ghost tho in case I do

im reserving judgement till i see what the hackers do to the new security.


I gotta say thou NOTHING is worse then WinME....