Windows Vista

[Mohksha]

Switch to kubuntu or ubuntu! sorry im crunk im moment. Linux is great. I had some slight problems at first but they were easily fixed. Plus you can get almost any program you could ever want for free! It's pretty awesome; If you are a Windows user I would get kubuntu, if mac then ubuntu.

[WaZ]

After SP1 I'll add it to the boot menu...

[babystarbud]

Iv recently got vista ultimate 64, mainly for the benefit of future games, dx10 and no more RAM limits.

Il run it along side XP till i'm used to it though, and as above, SP1 will probably be out by the time I get round to installing vista, im in no rush as XP is still the better OS...for now

...I think Vista has great potential.

[babystarbud]

Iv recently got vista ultimate 64, mainly for the benefit of future games, dx10 and no more RAM limits.

Il run it along side XP till i'm used to it though, and as above, SP1 will probably be out by the time I get round to installing vista, im in no rush as XP is still the better OS...for now

...I think Vista has great potential.

[imitator]

Switch to kubuntu or ubuntu! sorry im crunk im moment. Linux is great. I had some slight problems at first but they were easily fixed. Plus you can get almost any program you could ever want for free! It's pretty awesome; If you are a Windows user I would get kubuntu, if mac then ubuntu.

I am a gamer, and it is too much of a hassle to either have dual boot just to play my games in a windows enviroment, or have to emulate windows inside linux.

I used to keep a shitty old laptop with Red Hat 7 on it for years, but honestly just didnt see the point. Its great for what it is, most definitely, but in a windows dominate world, you really need to have windows installed in order to do alot of things.

...I think Vista has great potential.

SP1 will give a good reason to re-evaluate the OS for most reviewers, and I think by then they will have gotten over their "omg vista is teh debil!" premindset, and they might actually review the OS properly. Really its amazing that the crux of the problems that most people have are fixed with 5 minutes of work, or recognizing that a computer from 4 years ago might not work with a new OS.

XP was a crazy beast of an OS, you could literally run it on a machine running at 16mhz, with less then 2mb of ram. If I could remember the website where they did it at, Id link it, but the OS could really run on almost anything, which was great, but also disillusioned people to needing to buy new hardware to run newer things.

And personally, it took me more time to get XP working the way I wanted it then it did for Vista. Spent alot less time fooling around in the registry after the Vista install then I did with XP. And thank god they stopped the stupid fucking "updates have been installed restart now or later, but by later, we mean that you can click later like 5 times, and then we restart for you" setup.

[mikeyjo]

I upgraded to XP from windows 2000 (the best windows OS IMO) a year ago only because certain programs I needed required it.

SP3 for XP is supposed to add the security features available in Vista to XP. SP1 was just released for Vista - it's a beta though. Nothing like unleashing buggy software and letting your custies do the testing for you.

[babystarbud]

it's a beta though. Nothing like unleashing buggy software and letting your custies do the testing for you.

Its the best way to get any problems ironed out in a shorter time scale, a lot of people ive noticed are slating the crysis beta, which s equaly pointless...the purpose of beta testing is just that, to report problems.

a lot of people seem to think that betas are working demos and slate them when they dont meet thier polished expectations, they forget what they are actually for.....testing!

[slipknotpsycho]

well, i got my vista running pretty much just as smoothly as xp ran... i don't realy have any problems with it anymore... it really is just a matter of ironing out the kinks of it... and of course having a pc powerful enough to actually run it.... vista really is a resource hog...

anyways... there are still a copule of annoyances, but they are extremely minor and extremely rare.... honestly, could have the same exact problems in XP...

just like with most great things, they require a bit of tinkering to get them to work like you want and expect them too.... there are very few things thta don't require some type of set-up and is 100% perfect and configured straight outta the box.... and none of those few things are electronics, atleast recent ones...

[texas grass]

vista has been great to me
runs everything i have thrown at it
its quick
installs new software and hardware instantly, and if you dont have disk, it finds for you
im on the 32 bit not 64 bit

[mikeyjo]

a lot of people seem to think that betas are working demos and slate them when they dont meet thier polished expectations, they forget what they are actually for.....testing!

Don't have to look too hard to find that the final product - Vista, is anything but polished and customers are stuck paying full price for beta software.

Some find that's par for the course, some say there's a sucker born every minute....

I'll pass on Vista.... for a while thx.