It's Official - Vista Sucks

If you go out and buy a new computer, make sure you have a copy of XP Professional or Media Center lying around first. If not, then go buy one. You can get XP Pro or Media Center, OEM - not "upgrade", for discounted prices from reputable companies on the internet. Home Edition XP sucks.

Chances are, major computer manufacturers such as Dell and HP, have XP drivers for new computers that come shipped with Vista.

Keep your Vista disk that came with your new computer around and install Vista probably a year from now because it's quite clear that Vista is not ready for prime-time.

Any of you folks try or using Vista? What's your take on it?

I use XP Home. There's nothing wrong with it.

Vista sucks. I managed to have it up and running, but I had to manually install the drivers for several hardware parts. This page has helped me a lot:

http://www.technewlogy.com/windows-vista-drivers/

HTH

Well the writing was on the wall that it would be a polished turd when IE7 came out *shudders*.

Tried it to see what the hype was about, rebooted and smiled when Linux came back up. Thank god I only gave it a couple gigs to see what it was like instead of starting from nothing.

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Originally posted by rainbowdemon

I use XP Home. There's nothing wrong with it.

Well said, I coudn't agree more.

bought vista as an upgrade from xp,no one failed to mention i would have to upgrade most of the components in my pc and even when i did it still wouldnt run properly,i didnt activate vista just in case of problems like this,the upgrade is currently for sell on ebay as i have gone back to xp,DO NOT BUY VISTA,i have spent hundreds of pounds upgrading to a pc that in the end is the same one as i had in the first place

INDEED VISTA SUCKS ASS

I have Vista Ultimate and haven't had any problems

For me ... Vista was a DOWNGRADE. I wasted hours .... FUCK YOU, BILL GATES! Just a thought ...

I'll be sticking with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

yeah i work at best buy, people come in all the time for vista problems.. ALMOST NOTHING works for vista. the ONLY antivirus program that works for it is PC Cillin and Norton.. BUT norton sucks, IF youre a gamer, but Pc Cillin.. and yeah im going to stick with my mac. i hate windows.. but since i also have a windows comp. i have the XP Media center edition.. its alright.. does so cool shit.. BETTER THAN VISTA!!

I cant beleive anyone brought vista after the huge list of requirements came out.

For those members outside north america the apple vista commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n4mdcXa8B0

I'll stick with XP pro. No need to switch to Vista til the bugs are worked out, and at least one service pack is released.

my pc's to shitty for vista i never liked xp. i still use 2000 prof

My new laptop came with Vista, so I didn't have much of a choice.

While there are a lot of shitty/annoying things about it, they are mostly related to conflicts and bugs that I'm sure they will fix.

But there is plenty to be happy about...the new interface is sleek as hell, and way nicer looking than MacOS (sorry!). The new integrated search feature is a big "why didnt they do this before" and helps. I also like that you can permanently assign ICC profiles to different monitors (I use an additional monitor, to the laptop screen), so that you don't have to restart the computer everytime you come back from sleep or disconnect the monitor, in order to get the right profile to work.

Hopefully there will be more fixes out soon.

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Originally posted by jinond

my pc's to shitty for vista i never liked xp. i still use 2000 prof

I like 2000 too.

There was never a doubt in my mind that I would be sticking with Mac OS X. I will never go back to win-doze. Why take a step backwards? That's just me though. Different strokes, different folks.

Out of the box, you need to do an msconfig and remove Defender from startup just to do anything. It's more than condescending that the OS assumes the user can't manage their own spyware/ AV problems. My next upgrade will be to a Mac.

im saving money to go MAC

FUCK MICROSOFT!

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Originally posted by tommykat

Out of the box, you need to do an msconfig and remove Defender from startup just to do anything. It's more than condescending that the OS assumes the user can't manage their own spyware/ AV problems. My next upgrade will be to a Mac.

I think it's funny that Mac and Linux users bash windows xp for having security problems, and then when Microsoft actually does something to address those issues they are being condescending.

As someone who works in the IT industry, it is not condescending to assume that the user can't manage. The average user is completly helpless. It's like they just wonder around clicking on random shit. Macs and Linux appears to be immune to attack, however the truth of the matter is that people that write viruses don't want to waste their time coding to harm the 2% of the population that aren't using Windows.

But I digress... I won't be upgrading to Vista for a while. I installed it on a separate partition on my work laptop for testing purposes, and everything seems to be working great. However, there are a few third party programs that I use at work that have not released compatability updates yet. I'm looking forward to it though.

P.S. I don't work for Microsoft...