Hehe, try taking a PC with Vista to a lan-party. It will be all but impossible to make it connect and function with the network, especially if everyone else is using XP.
what's wrong with Windows Vista?
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I found vista, and even seven to some extent very maternal. Forever little boxes that say 'are you sure you want to do this? Are you sure? Really?'
Okay I would like to be notified of major system changes, but constantly having to allow things like java permission to check for updates is kinda annoying now >:
Okay I would like to be notified of major system changes, but constantly having to allow things like java permission to check for updates is kinda annoying now >:
I hadn't a problem until December outside of the occasional freeze or the constant lag in some games that my laptop had the specs to run. Then it pretty much melted and the rig I'm getting defiantly won't have it.
I've been using Vista Basic for 2 years now. I have found problems with it, but I'm willing to blame those on the fact that Dell makes cruddy computers with low specs. Less than 2 GB RAM and a 100 GB hard drive is not the OS' fault.
I'm gonna come out and say it. This link is bullshit. It was right about one thing though, Windows 7 is another version of Vista. A finished version. Windows 7 was pretty much what Vista was supposed to be in the first place. One of my friends as such refers to it as "Windows 7 (Beta)".krychek57 said:
After using my pal's MacBook for a bit, Vista just felt like shit.
But you get the opposite when you want to log off but accidently click "shut down" and it just shuts it off without making sure that was what you wanted to do, making you waste time rebooting the fucking thing and ARGH!!!Gekkeiju said:
I run Vista on my Laptop. Let me tell you a little story of why I despise Vista.
I received my brand new Laptop for my birthday a year ago last September. Eyes full of glee, I booted it up and saw the shiny new features, and thought "It cant possibly be as bad as people say"
Fast forward to the present day. My laptop has frozen a minimum of 7 times recently. Why? Because I had the audacity to play Team Fortress 2 and Minecraft on it. And its not just that the programs have crashed. My entire freaking laptop does a huge system crash, and refuses to turn back on for the next 5 minutes. The whole thing freezes up, without overheating or anything, and wont even turn off without a manual shutdown.
This is just the stuff that happens when I play those games. My laptop likes to play a game of "Crash/Pretend to not have Java" with me. I also cant connect to networks, and it just loves to pretend not to have heard me when I give it the go ahead to do anything. And dont even get me started on how noisy it is.
With all the crap it gives me, you would think that I had smashed it with a hammer a couple of times and then expected it to run. But I haven't. I've tried to treat it nice, but I think I'm gonna buy 7.
I received my brand new Laptop for my birthday a year ago last September. Eyes full of glee, I booted it up and saw the shiny new features, and thought "It cant possibly be as bad as people say"
Fast forward to the present day. My laptop has frozen a minimum of 7 times recently. Why? Because I had the audacity to play Team Fortress 2 and Minecraft on it. And its not just that the programs have crashed. My entire freaking laptop does a huge system crash, and refuses to turn back on for the next 5 minutes. The whole thing freezes up, without overheating or anything, and wont even turn off without a manual shutdown.
This is just the stuff that happens when I play those games. My laptop likes to play a game of "Crash/Pretend to not have Java" with me. I also cant connect to networks, and it just loves to pretend not to have heard me when I give it the go ahead to do anything. And dont even get me started on how noisy it is.
With all the crap it gives me, you would think that I had smashed it with a hammer a couple of times and then expected it to run. But I haven't. I've tried to treat it nice, but I think I'm gonna buy 7.
I never really got all hate for it either. I've had it on this computer for 3 years, and even though I'm swtiching to Win7 on Thursday (along with a new computer), I've never had any major problems with Vista.
Sure, the UAC was annoying as hell, but if you have a decent AV-program you don't really need it. It's never crashed on me, I've never encountered any performance problems that were caused by Vista, all of them were caused by my graphics card, which is complete shit. The only real issue I've had is with "data execution protection" or whatever it's called in English (I directly translated it from Swedish, "Dataexekveringsskydd"), but that's easily fixed.
To be honest, I'm pretty happy with my Vista. I know a lot of other people have reported a lot of problems, but I never seem to get those problems, and that's what's important, that it's working for me.
Sure, the UAC was annoying as hell, but if you have a decent AV-program you don't really need it. It's never crashed on me, I've never encountered any performance problems that were caused by Vista, all of them were caused by my graphics card, which is complete shit. The only real issue I've had is with "data execution protection" or whatever it's called in English (I directly translated it from Swedish, "Dataexekveringsskydd"), but that's easily fixed.
To be honest, I'm pretty happy with my Vista. I know a lot of other people have reported a lot of problems, but I never seem to get those problems, and that's what's important, that it's working for me.
I've yet to see a machine where it didn't start out fine and then crash and burn later. The only computer in my house that is running Vista runs so sluggishly that it's practically unusable, and that's with very few programs and zero viruses. I'm not saying that XP is an operating system without fault, but many of us saw absolutely no reason to upgrade.
People don't want to blame themselves when they do something stupid. So they look for other reasons that their computer isn't working like they want. So they hop on the internet, and hey! There's a lot of people hating on that big company called Microsoft. Do I own anything Microsoft? Sure enough, this Vista thingy in my computer is made by them. So that must be the problem.
Stupid Microsoft! God! How could you? I wanted to clog my computer with random crap from the internet without it getting slowed down!
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The only issue was incompatibility, and there were workarounds for most programs/games. When Vista came out, it undoubtedly had bugs. But they were fixed by the time I got it, about a year after release. I didn't encounter one system breaking bug. Did it need maintenance? Yes. All computers inevitably do. Was it the worst OS I have ever used? Yes, actually, but I haven't really used a bad one between 98, XP, Vista, 7, XFCE, and Ubuntu.
But everything I wrote above is kind of pointless since Windows 7 was released, because it is actually much better in every way, so I agree with replacing Vista with it.
Stupid Microsoft! God! How could you? I wanted to clog my computer with random crap from the internet without it getting slowed down!
Serious mode:
The only issue was incompatibility, and there were workarounds for most programs/games. When Vista came out, it undoubtedly had bugs. But they were fixed by the time I got it, about a year after release. I didn't encounter one system breaking bug. Did it need maintenance? Yes. All computers inevitably do. Was it the worst OS I have ever used? Yes, actually, but I haven't really used a bad one between 98, XP, Vista, 7, XFCE, and Ubuntu.
But everything I wrote above is kind of pointless since Windows 7 was released, because it is actually much better in every way, so I agree with replacing Vista with it.
Yesterday, I tried to download the service pack for my friends PC. It failed 10 times. I tried doing it manually...didn't work. Contacted IndiaMicrosoft Tech Support and they were doing the same thing I was doing and it failed. They tried deleting the older service packs and installing the new one and it failed. Then they said "is your monitor on?"....Then they really said"Maybe you should upgrade to Windows 7" Thanks Microsoft tech support.