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| Topic Started: Dec 17 2007, 11:12 AM (59 Views) | |
| Trotsky | Dec 17 2007, 11:12 AM Post #1 |
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The Decision Should Be Mine Published in Lockergnome Gnomie Craig writes: After using the Amiga OS for almost 15 years, I came over to Windows 98SE around 1999. For the most part, I wasn’t very happy with Windows; Amiga was so much simpler — even though Windows was capable of so much more than what the Amiga OS offered. Having dealt with the transfer of OSes (and also the language barriers, as I am a programmer), I eventually came to like and support Windows 98 going to Windows 2000. I then found, like many others, that Windows ME offered more but was also very buggy. Then XP came out (how many hours that kept me up!) — as with Vista today, there was very little hardware driver support. But XP had a likeabilty factor, and when service packs one and two came to light, XP became a major force to the working of my daily life. I recently brought a new laptop that was Vista ready (HP Pavilion dv6030) — oh, I was so excited thinking I had the machine that was capable and truly able to run this beast OS (wrong). It was not a nice experience at all — Vista was shoddy; it was slow and it lagged. Its eye candy was impressive, but Aero became boring and CPU hungry. It was turned off within hours. It had full driver support, but just didn’t have software support. (An interesting note: did you know that the most incompatible software with Vista was Microsoft’s?) Visual wouldn’t work and I was gob smacked. It took me three weeks, but I now have XP running (and while some drivers are iffy, it’s still a better experience than Vista ever was). I hope that Microsoft does manage to pull Vista together and with time call upon and try to develop with the hardware vendors to make more of the existing hardware compatible. Vista is shipped with the biggest amount of drivers on disk, yet many don’t work. Why is that? It comes to something when you buy a machine and you’re willing, within days of opening up your sparkly new PC, to void the warranty by running an OS (XP, in my case) that is not supported by the vendor. Some systems even come equipped with a setting within the BIOS that disallows you to run XP. The option should be mine — not the computer company’s and not Microsoft’s. The argument with Vista can go on and on. A few love, but loads hate. The numbers say it all. Web cams, scanners, printers, sound, graphics, and NIC cards are all victims. I’m not sure what MS is thinking or hoping for. Good luck Vista, but in my books, long live XP. After seeing too much stuff like this it will be a cold day in Hell before I ever upgrade...imagine having a BIOS setting to hold you out of XP! That SOUNDS like HP. |
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| Delphi51 | Dec 17 2007, 12:06 PM Post #2 |
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I just got a new notebook with Vista and have experienced similar frustrations. Why on Earth did we need an OS ten times as big and at least twice as demanding on the CPU? I haven't found a single thing that I would call an improvement. I expect I will be "upgrading" to XP at some point, too - see this interesting story on "upgrading": http://dotnet.org.za/codingsanity/archive/...windows-xp.aspx How can I tell if my computer is blocking an XP install? I'm quite interested in that - never heard of it before. I'm programming, too, using an older version 5 of Delphi which works but isn't happy with Vista's UAC. Finally figured out how to turn that off. It wouldn't even let me drag a folder to the main directory. I definitely have the feeling that I am not fully in charge of this computer. I haven't had any driver problems, though. |
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| Trotsky | Dec 19 2007, 11:35 AM Post #3 |
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No, I haven't seen that complaint before but what I'd do if I had a Vista machine is to enter the BIOS and have a snoop around at the settings. I have no such OS preference setting on my 2001 era machine. I liked that tongue and cheek article about the upgrading to Win XP...it is written completely seriously without a CLUE of a joke. :rofl: I wish I had the cajones to buy PUTS against Microsoft...but I have grown so terribly risk averse after a few big losses. But this disaster called Vista has GOT to hurt the bottom line. |
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| Delphi51 | Dec 19 2007, 05:04 PM Post #4 |
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It feels like a time of change to me . . . this bigger and bigger software from Microsoft that does nothing exciting is opening a window for something really new. I hope its not Google with online word processing and various other things. I like to be in control, not dangling from a wire connected to wherever Google resides. Maybe Macintosh will have its big chance and it surely deserves it. But my favourite outcome would be a back to basics movement with software that just does the job quickly and efficiently with little eye candy. A computer with the OS and basic apps in ROM so it boots up instantly and has great resistance to nasty changes would be a good start. |
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