What Operating System Are you using?

[mr. incrediball]

the people at our school are raving that the art, music, and drama departments use MACs and there are only 2 technicians for the whole lot, but the I.C.T department uses pcs (so there are obviously more pcs) and i for one have never seen more than two techs! i mean the pcs crash a lot, but Macs actually crash a lot more than people realise.

[Bertros Bertros]

As far as gaming goes both Stalker and Rainbow Six Vegas are visually beautiful and play like a dream on Vista.... though this probably has little to do with Vista per se and more to do with the hardware its running on... Halo is for living room gamers, poor deluded souls...

[Bertros Bertros]

I bought a new machine for Vista (admittedly its ridiculously overpowered) and have had nothing but joy from my Vista experience... It's super from all aspects as far as I'm concerned though as with any OS there is a little bit of a transition whilst you get used to what (which to the average user is not actually very much) has changed... and besides you can play with Aero windows effects when your on the phone to someone boring so all round thumbs up for Vista...

I use Windows for everything which is really only work and pleasure and the lines are blurred there for me anyway... Nothing wrong with Linux but really I mean really who wants to get involved in all that greasy haired open source milarkey, Suse is OK I suppose but I want compatibility and out of the box happiness...

Macs are for people who care more what the box their computer is in looks like than what it does... don't come telling me the hardware is better cos its the same components inside that fanyc plastic shell, and don't go telling me the OS is better cause its just *nix with a fancy skin and you have to drop to the very hidden command line to do anything vaguely technical with it...

[insert some poncey mac user whining about superior performance for music editing blah blah 10 years out of date bullshit etc]

... I used to use exclusively Mac and *nix and was fully subscribed to the "I hate Bill" club with a lifetime membership... then I grew up!

Still vista is not conpatible with nearly 80% of my current software

That suxs, I feel your pain... what software, the only thing that hasn't worked for me is Notepad2 which I can live without...

[Mr. Know It All]

I bought a new machine for Vista (admittedly its ridiculously overpowered) and have had nothing but joy from my Vista experience... It's super from all aspects as far as I'm concerned though as with any OS there is a little bit of a transition whilst you get used to what (which to the average user is not actually very much) has changed... and besides you can play with Aero windows effects when your on the phone to someone boring so all round thumbs up for Vista...

I use Windows for everything which is really only work and pleasure and the lines are blurred there for me anyway... Nothing wrong with Linux but really I mean really who wants to get involved in all that greasy haired open source milarkey, Suse is OK I suppose but I want compatibility and out of the box happiness...

Macs are for people who care more what the box their computer is in looks like than what it does... don't come telling me the hardware is better cos its the same components inside that fanyc plastic shell, and don't go telling me the OS is better cause its just *nix with a fancy skin and you have to drop to the very hidden command line to do anything vaguely technical with it...

[insert some poncey mac user whining about superior performance for music editing blah blah 10 years out of date bullshit etc]

... I used to use exclusively Mac and *nix and was fully subscribed to the "I hate Bill" club with a lifetime membership... then I grew up!

Still vista is not conpatible with nearly 80% of my current software

That suxs, I feel your pain... what software, the only thing that hasn't worked for me is Notepad2 which I can live without...

lol My wireless internet software doesn't work so its alot of pain

[I GOT SERVED]

I run Ubuntu Linux.

Bitches.

[Spuzzell]

As far as gaming goes both Stalker and Rainbow Six Vegas are visually beautiful and play like a dream on Vista.... though this probably has little to do with Vista per se and more to do with the hardware its running on... Halo is for living room gamers, poor deluded souls...

Ha. Stalker wouldn't run smoothly even on HAL from 2001.

[Bertros Bertros]

As far as gaming goes both Stalker and Rainbow Six Vegas are visually beautiful and play like a dream on Vista.... though this probably has little to do with Vista per se and more to do with the hardware its running on... Halo is for living room gamers, poor deluded souls...

Ha. Stalker wouldn't run smoothly even on HAL from 2001.

lol - nah it wouldn't... but then I'm not using HAL... ;o) Runs fine for me, not even a stutter!

[dwightschrute]

i use XP is vista any good

[zomboli]

Friends don't let Friends buy Vista...

Its like a beta & I don't pay like 200+$ for betas

I don't care what you say it has been bench marked many times and currently its boggs your system down more than XP obviously hurting performance so Ill stick with my modded XP cuz it looks way kooler and I don't have the driver bugs ~n~ stuff

[Fircoal]

the slow one.

[Serbia]

how much of an idiot am I for admiting I don't know if this is XP or 2000?

[Avron]

A large one, but thats cool. My Computer, Control Panel, System

[Bertros Bertros]

Friends don't let Friends buy Vista...

Its like a beta & I don't pay like 200+$ for betas

I don't care what you say it has been bench marked many times and currently its boggs your system down more than XP obviously hurting performance so Ill stick with my modded XP cuz it looks way kooler and I don't have the driver bugs ~n~ stuff

You are very right, Vista is way more resource intensive than XP in much the same way that XP is way more resource intensive than 2000... Bitching that Vista is more hungry than XP is like bitching that a 6.0 Litre Hummer uses more fuel than an Audi... its an absolute given that it will...

So I wouldn't advocate Vista to anyone who isn't prepared to fork out for some hardware that can cope with it. However if you are, get it! Its awesome, its not a Beta ffs, XP was a beta... Microsoft have delayed the release of Vista by years to avoid exactly that and with great success from my experience... Its not for everybody yet, but it doesn't deserve running down because of that....

On a side note - modding is wierd! Why put fancy coloured lights in your box, or have a see through panel on the side, or water cooling when you can spend the money on more memory or an extra gfx card... and as for bogging down your PC dodgy skins on top of XP are about the most effective method out there, aren't they?


EDIT: You could, and no doubt some body will, argue that Vista is a dogy skin on XP so I thought I'd beat them to it!

[Bertros Bertros]

And while I'm on a roll I thought I'd spew about the whole drivers thing as well... Granted there are some issues with certain drivers on Vista, none that I haven't been able to resolve, but they are there all the same... If your not prapared to sort the problems don't get Vista but again don't bitch about it, just because your not ready for it doesn't make it crap...

Backwards compatability and the Raymond Chen camp of everything that worked on 95 must still work now bullshit has been holding back the Windows OS for years... don't spurn progress because your not ready for it... it makes you sound old! (and thats coming from an old(ish) man)

[The1exile]

You are very right, Vista is way more resource intensive than XP in much the same way that XP is way more resource intensive than 2000... Bitching that Vista is more hungry than XP is like bitching that a 6.0 Litre Hummer uses more fuel than an Audi... its an absolute given that it will...

So I wouldn't advocate Vista to anyone who isn't prepared to fork out for some hardware that can cope with it. However if you are, get it! Its awesome, its not a Beta ffs, XP was a beta... Microsoft have delayed the release of Vista by years to avoid exactly that and with great success from my experience... Its not for everybody yet, but it doesn't deserve running down because of that....

On a side note - modding is wierd! Why put fancy coloured lights in your box, or have a see through panel on the side, or water cooling when you can spend the money on more memory or an extra gfx card... and as for bogging down your PC dodgy skins on top of XP are about the most effective method out there, aren't they?


EDIT: You could, and no doubt some body will, argue that Vista is a dogy skin on XP so I thought I'd beat them to it!

You can't play decent games on Vista because it says insufficient OS privileges.

Don't get it. I did, and it sucks (figured it must have improved from the evaluation version... nope).

And the delay of Vista was because they scrapped Longhorn, and then basically salvaged everything out of that to put into the new OS.

Maybe it'll get better after they issue all the fixes (like service packs 1 and 2 for XP, or second edition for 98...). But don't hold your breath.

[alex_white101]

windows xp, it works and is simple, thats all i need it for!

[Great Pretender]

Windows XP media

[twinfists]

I'm running windows vista and i love it. I got a laptop with 2gig ram. Not had a single problem with it. Only cost £580.

I heard everyone say that there were loads of problems with it but i haven't had a single one. And i have had it for over a month.

My old laptop collapsed while playing CC

[Bertros Bertros]

You are very right, Vista is way more resource intensive than XP in much the same way that XP is way more resource intensive than 2000... Bitching that Vista is more hungry than XP is like bitching that a 6.0 Litre Hummer uses more fuel than an Audi... its an absolute given that it will...

So I wouldn't advocate Vista to anyone who isn't prepared to fork out for some hardware that can cope with it. However if you are, get it! Its awesome, its not a Beta ffs, XP was a beta... Microsoft have delayed the release of Vista by years to avoid exactly that and with great success from my experience... Its not for everybody yet, but it doesn't deserve running down because of that....

On a side note - modding is wierd! Why put fancy coloured lights in your box, or have a see through panel on the side, or water cooling when you can spend the money on more memory or an extra gfx card... and as for bogging down your PC dodgy skins on top of XP are about the most effective method out there, aren't they?


EDIT: You could, and no doubt some body will, argue that Vista is a dogy skin on XP so I thought I'd beat them to it!

You can't play decent games on Vista because it says insufficient OS privileges.

Don't get it. I did, and it sucks (figured it must have improved from the evaluation version... nope).

And the delay of Vista was because they scrapped Longhorn, and then basically salvaged everything out of that to put into the new OS.

Maybe it'll get better after they issue all the fixes (like service packs 1 and 2 for XP, or second edition for 98...). But don't hold your breath.

You can't play decent games on Vista as you haven't bothered to understand the changes to application security, I on the other hand can play decent games just fine... as a tip try right clicking the icon on your desktop or in the whatever you call start menu now and selecting "Run as administrator"...

Longhorn has not been scrapped. It is an entirely different OS and will be the replacement to Windows Server 2003. Sure Vista uses some of the same technolgoy as Longhorn will bu they have never been the same.

The delays were in some part because of the problems with WinFS and the eventual decision to not include that in the Vista release and the subsequent work that went into the existing file system architecture to make the massive and clearly evident improvments in areas like searching...

No doubt Vista will get better as service packs are released for it... that doesn't mean it is bad now...