Comments on: Vista Rants

By: Some1

Some1 — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:52:30 +0000

two words linux/ubuntu

By: V

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:13:46 +0000

Most of the commenters on this post seem to have the reading comprehension of a blueberry.

By: HB

HB — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:16:55 +0000

Yes, lets all move to Linux.

I’m getting rid of my 335 Cabriolet and buying a Citroen 2CV.

It’ll be so straighforward!

Completely primitive and sh*& but SOOOOO STRAIGHTFORWARD.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:59:23 +0000

“Abandon the notion that UI doesn’t matter.”

Are you kidding? UI is about the only thing that Microsoft is any good at (for mediocre values of “good”). Microsoft is all about putting lipstick on the pig.

By: Linux-rocks

Linux-rocks — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:32:19 +0000

I’m reading these posts and your problems with windows and can’t help myself stop laughing and sympathising. I erased windows off all my computers 4 years ago and I’ve been running Suse Linux since then. I NEVER had any problems worse than windows’ with previous versions of Suse. And with new releases there’s less and less problems, with 10.2 I had literally zero, everything worked out of the box, all hardware supported, all drivers available – piece of cake. Laptop, desktop, servers, printers, cameras, modems, wireless you name it, everything just works.

Listen, you people, switch to Linux, dump that windows cr*pware and have no worries in the world. Instead have total freedom, power, security, tens of thousands free programs and much more. Linux rocks!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:58:52 +0000

I have Windows Vista 64 bit installed, running XP in a Virtual PC which lets me run multiple instances of Visual Studio, with no issues… I do all sorts of things… and I do not install bloatware, so I have had no issues. I built this computer… Quad Core 6600 processor, EVGA mother board (SLI) and EVGA 8800 GTS 320MB graphics card…. I love Vista 64 bit, and if I want USB support for virtual machine I just need to get VMWARE, which I do not need yet… VISTA 64 ROCKS! XP is a toy I run within VISTA.

By: HerbVista

HerbVista — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:14:42 +0000

Vista: First there were hardware issues … ATI X850 and X700 AGP video driver crashes/restarts. No support for ATI TV Wonder Pro cards and delayed support for USR 5699 Winmodems … 2 GB of memory is nolonger ample just sufficient … the 3.2 GHZ Pentium 4 Northwood CPU lacks sufficient processing power … no
Then the software issues … the whole ITUNES/IPOD driver issue and general sluggishness … VMware 5.x series nolonger works … etc
Then replacing the old components with Core 2 Duo E6600 and Gigabyte 965P-DS3 Motherboard to support CPU and 4GB of DDR2-800 memory only to find miserable performance of products such as VMware 6.0 and Folding@Home on Vista as compared to XP Home not to mention poor driver support of ATI X1300 card and poor tuning of Hauppauge PVR-150 card on Vista as compared to XP.
So … I too am back on XP to my chagrin … as Chris points out “… a year after Vista’s release …” to get the performance back for VMware and Folding@Home among other apps (I fault Microsoft for the performance hit) … not to mention for general program compatibility (not so much a induced Microsoft problem)

By: Elliott Rand

Elliott Rand — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:00:38 +0000

I have Vista 32 and 64 on two separate notebooks. Compaq runs Vista 64
Vista 32 about 70% of programs used with XP run “OK” but slower. In some cases cannot get to help files.
Vista 64 works with

By: Zaine Ridling

Zaine Ridling — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:34:41 +0000

I’ve had problems with Vista x64 from day one. From drivers to slow copying and moving operations, DRM bullshit which Ed Bott denies, and on and on. Microsoft really failed with Vista for three main reasons: (1) it takes a LOT of hardware to run it, but Microsoft doesn’t disclose that fact; (2) the EULA is just draconian (much like Apple’s iPhone mess), and (3) Vista should have been a 64-bit OS only. That would have forced everyone who wanted it to go out and buy a big new machine on which to run it.

For the past year I’ve installed and tested almost every GNU/Linux distro I thought I’d like and it turns out there are several very, very good ones. The great advantage to GNU/Linux is that you can find a specific distro that’s tailored to your needs and hardware. Hell, it makes an old machine new again. And the new ClearLooks UI is elegant. Although I run a downgraded XP machine for background tasks, I can’t see myself going back to Windows for my primary computing tasks throughout the day.

DISCLOSURE: Until 18 months ago, I was perhaps one of Microsoft’s biggest fans. So I don’t blame myself for Vista’s failure.

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By: W^L+

W^L+ — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:04:35 +0000

I spent about a week trying to connect a co-worker’s new Vista laptop to the hotel WiFi. WinXP worked fine, as did Linux, but WinVista continued to have problems the whole four months we were there.

Likewise, he bought a mouse, certified to work with Vista, but the _built_into_Windows_ driver for it did not pass security, so it refused to install. He bought a Microsoft mouse, certified to work with Vista. Same thing happened with its CD-installed driver, although there was a working driver available at Microsoft’s site. We could use either mouse with WinXP no problem.

If Microsoft itself cannot make working drivers for Vista, how can someone expect other companies to do so?

By: Wayne

Wayne — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:07:38 +0000

I’ve been in the PC support business for the last 20 years so it didn’t bother me to install Vista on my new Core2Duo PC I built. Although I wouldn’t recommend it for new users unless they bought a new PC/printer, etc.
I haven’t had any problems with it – it runs lightning fast but a lot of that is the new hardware. No blue or black screens yet. Very happy with it. I still have my old XP but it runs like a dog now especially compared to the Vista.

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TweakHound’s Blog » Chris Pirillo’s Vista Rant — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:16:40 +0000

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By: Kenny

Kenny — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:06:25 +0000

I built a machine ment for vista. Dual core, 2GB of Ram that matches the motherboards QVL, a small video card in the nVidia 6200 series and I don’t have these issues with Vista that everyone else is complaining about. It’s all hardware related folks. While XP may be faster, I averaged a crash a day with XP. With Vista I’ve managed to go 28 days and it probably would have been longer if the stupid Updates didn’t reboot my computer automatically on me.
I’ve had my Vista Preimum since the first week it’s been out and all the complaining everyone else is doing isn’t making my machine run any less stable and grand then it has been. My advice to the big dudes that like to build systems and think they are so intelligent.

Don’t install with another OS. Install Vista on a machine that was ment to run it. Make sure your RAM is QVL with your MB. Vista dosen’t like cheap memory that doesn’t run properly with the motherboard. In fact let’s make it easy.

Get a 600 Watt Power Supply or larger. Get an Asus P5N32-E SLI, and a Seagate 500GB SATA 3.0 Hard Drive. I have 2 of them and a 320 but they are all SATA 3.0 and not in any raid configuration. nVidia video card, and I’m using a 3.2G Dual Core with VT Technology. I forget the exact Pentium D number it is. 940 I think? You put that together, and put in Vista Preimum and see if you can complain.

By: BKA

BKA — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:23:36 +0000

I normally build my own PC’s & I have a reasonablly fast AMD beastie on a good ASUS M/B, 2 GB ram oodles of HD space, Linksys Wireless, Broadband etc. Running quite happily on XP thank you very much. Having read a lot on the failings of Vista I have no of intention of upgrading this system yet, even if it is compatible…

BUT I had to by a Laptop recently for some school work & I bought a nice Fujitsu Lifebook, with you guessed it, Vista Home Premium. Apparenlty its not easy to get them with XP now. So with some trepidation I took it home & started playing with it, first thing I did was get it hooked up with my Wi-Fi, no problem! Second thing I did was get shot of the free(?) Norton anti-virus & install the COX suite which comes free with my broadband, again no problem.

On my network I have an HP 8250 Photo Printer hooked through a D-Link Print Spooler, this will upset Vista I thought, but no, all I had to do was put in the IP address of the D-Link, find the right HP drivers (in Vista) & once again works fine & I can print with no problems.

I also installed Photoshop Elements 5.0, no issues yet. So I guess Time will tell, but so far so good..

PS In my work life I have tested plenty of Beta Software, always on systems that we caould easily revert back, so I will never install a Beta release from Microsoft on a system I need to use!!

TTFN