Everybody Hates Vista....But Why?

[e2density]

Well, I am not much to track Microsoft like a fanboy, but IMO they released Vista too early, before they had time to smooth out the bugs and optimize it. Windows 7 was "the fix", it was the visuals of Vista with that extra time spent optimizing.

 

[GBlair88]

As far as I'm aware the main problem with Vista was when people upgraded their XP machines to Vista but didn't upgrade their RAM. So alot of people had machines that simply weren't powerful enough to handle the power hungry OS and decided this was all the fault of Vista. So it got off to a bad start and the bandwagoners made the problem worse.

It may not be perfect, but it isn't as bad as some people make out.

 

[lacktheknack]

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Less German, please.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

i just use my computer to browse the web and play games. vista didnt seem to hamper those activities at all.

Same here. I can understand why people who use computers for more specialised tasks would complain, but for your average internet goer and gamer it fits the bill.

 

[Ekonk]

Windows Vista made my computer run games like shit. I downgraded to XP and all was well.

Don't let anyone tell you people hate Vista because it's an edgy thing to do, they hate it because it sucks.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Vista does less things than XP slower. But hogs more space.

Also the ads were downright fabrications.

Find me a Vista Defender who can say anything more than "Well, I've had no problems with it."

 

[Lt.Snuffles]

I have used both vista and windows 7 on the same computer, and I can say, hand on heart that I would go for vista. The programs that I use are done better on vista, and apart from that the Os' are almost identical. The only point windows 7 has in it's favor is, that it didn't completely fail (explorer wouldn't start on start up, and when I went through the tedious process of manually starting it, it would last about 15 minutes before crashing again), or at least it hasn't yet.

 

[Daverson]

Almost all the complaints I see about Vista or either misinformed, or about "UAC" (that little box that pops up saying "are you sure you want to do this", whenever you try to do technical-y stuff).

Apparently some of these self-proclaimed "pros" don't realize UAC can be disabled in less than 5 minutes. I disabled it on my PC running Vista, and I must say, since doing this, I've found Vista to be much better than XP! Of course, I never really liked XP... (probably due to "stylish" redesign... I still use the '95 style layout for everything! I think if they ever removed the classic style GUI in a future version of windows, that'd be enough for me to switch to Ubuntu for everything... =p )

EDIT: Oh, yeah, it needs more RAM, that's the other thing. But it also supports more RAM. I'm not the sort of person who goes out to buy a new OS by itself, only when I get a new PC, so I never had any problem with this.

EDIT2: Actually I do have a problem with Vista, my ancient publishing and photoshop programs (Serif Pageplus 9.0/Photoplus 9.0) don't run that well on it. Kinda lags a bit. But that's not really Microsoft's fault...

 

[Caligulove]

Never had a machine that used Vista. Been using an XP/Ubuntu dual boot laptop for years now- upgraded that to a Windows 7/Ubuntu.

Friends and my girlfriend have preloaded vista laptops, and I've never seen whats so horrible about it, though none of them complain about it very much, or use it for very much beyond what most people use laptops for. I always imagined the crowd that hated it was the hardcore PC users or gamers that used XP for so long and then had to upgrade to Vista- which I can understand XP was a really good OS and I didn't want to change until I knew I would be upgrading.

 

[Ih8pkmn]

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...I'm not sure whether or not I should report you.

OT:It crashed more often than bumper cars with waxed wheels on an ice rink, that's why.

 

[Rblade]

because it doesn't reliably run KOTOR II. that sounds like ample reason.

it's kind of sad that forums and stuff on the topic of "why does my KOTOR II not run properly"

ussually start out with "are you running it on vista? if so bad luck."

now I know that game is buggy. But how could a new OS make something more buggy?

I want to lightsaber some dudes!!!

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Here is a golden example. I need to play CoD2 and CoD4 with a mic plugged in. So yeah Vista if a really fucked up system.

 

[Joshimodo]

Slow, obtuse, less efficient and incompatible with half of the software in existence.


Windows 7 is much, much better.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

Well I've used Vista for 4 years now and I have had a few problems with it. It is reliable enough and easy enough to use, but I've had big big problems with the wireless networks. Apparently they were coded badly and our Uni wireless just outright failed to connect to any Vista laptops, no matter what other components and hardware they had. The uni tech guys had to take everyones laptops one at a time and do a bit of recoding, I think it was as simple as changing a single number in a single piece of code, but it's these kind of small bugs that are the problem with vista.

I've also found that it will flat out refuse to work with any scanners whatsoever, and on several of my friends vista laptops it cannot play any games whatsoever, but I have a different graphics card on my beast of a laptop so I can.

These faults, (and I am sure there are others that I have not experienced but other people may have)were not shared by XP, which was a complete step backwards in these respects, combined with a lack of backwards compatibility with XP and the rest.

But apart from those glaring issues I have found it to be stable, user-friendly and quick. It's just like the fallout 3 of OS's, when it works it's brilliant, but it contains some terrible bugs.

 

[Nouw]

I don't really like it for it's complexity and unreliability. I saw someone going on about how they fixed the problems of Vista easily and if I couldn't find it, a bit less computer-friendly people couldn't.

 

[Pilkingtube]

My pc came with vista pre-installed and apart from the UAC thing its never been a spot of trouble, but saying that, my laptop came with win7 pre-installed and i've had no problems either!
I thought I was the odd one out because I didn't hate vista.
I have read this thread and I am now happy.

 

[Kris015]

I'm running Vista and I have and have had a lot of problems with it's unstableness and stuff.

 

[Agayek]

The obvious answer is because its so unreliable and unstable. But why is that? What does the programing do so wrong?

That's actually not the primary problem with Vista. The issue with Vista is that it's incredibly bloated with all sorts of unnecessary and useless widgets and various background processes. This makes the OS incredibly slow comparatively, and is why most people hate the thing. It's packed to the gills with unneeded crap that you can't easily turn off. Fortunately, 7 came along and basically gave us Vista without that crap, so now we're all good.

 

[BrotherhoodofVeal]

Why? b/c it sucks thats why. You cant play many games cuz of compatability issues.

 

[Communist partisan]

I'm still using Vista on a technicality[footnote]Realtek's Win7 nForce 4 audio driver gets stuck in an install loop. By the time I reinstall Windows I oughtta have a decent sound card and/or an entirely new rig, so I'll be moving on to 7.[/footnote]. I can tell you it's a combination of 95% PEBKAC and 5% bandwagoneers. I don't have a damn bit of trouble with it. It isn't buggy. It isn't laggy. It isn't overly bloated[footnote]I'm smart enough to use MSConfig to disable most of the shit I don't need.[/footnote]. It isn't unstable. It isn't incompatible. It isn't a memory whore(That title goes to Firefox). It's just attacked endlessly by fanboys, morons and bandwagoneers who don't like it is all.


It's nothing like ME, that's for sure.

I know, It isn't shit as nearly everbody say it is I even think it's better than XP.