FOR ALL YOU Vista LOVERS

[Tragic00 10+ year member]

Cumbersome, yes, but not impossible.

What all is involved?//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

Vista is pretty freaking awesome once you get it working properly

 

[JLJunkieMX107 10+ year member]

I work for Gateway as a computer tech, when Vista first came out we were getting thousands, yes THOUSANDS of laptops returned because of software issues. The only thing we could do is wipe the hard drive and reload Vista and hope the problem didnt arise again. Some people left a post it note on their laptop that said "Please load XP on my computer!!!" lol.

Vista may be good for the average home user but when you try to do things like coding, programming etc. it basically sucks ***.

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

I work for Gateway as a computer tech, when Vista first came out we were getting thousands, yes THOUSANDS of laptops returned because of software issues. The only thing we could do is wipe the hard drive and reload Vista and hope the problem didnt arise again. Some people left a post it note on their laptop that said "Please load XP on my computer!!!" lol.
Vista may be good for the average home user but when you try to do things like coding, programming etc. it basically sucks ***.

I have no issue running c++, mySQL, c#, Java, php, or any other language under vista 64 bit ultimate.

Infact 64bit vista runs 10x better than 64 bit xp, as long as you have resources

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

Isn't there a problem with Vista making it harder to dual boot? I heard it uses it's own boot menu and it's a pain to do, or something like that, a buddy was telling me about it but I wasn't really listening. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/veryhappy.gif.fec4fed33b4a1279cf10bdd45a039dae.gif

I dual boot, and its the same dual boot screen I have been dealing with for the past ~4 years. Nothing special with it

 

[JLJunkieMX107 10+ year member]

I have no issue running c++, mySQL, c#, Java, php, or any other language under vista 64 bit ultimate.
Infact 64bit vista runs 10x better than 64 bit xp, as long as you have resources

Ahh really? I havent messed with Vista since it first came out so I havent tried any programming on it with the updated version. When it first came out, I had it on my computer and just got tired of messing with it so I swapped back to XP. I may have to give Vista a shot again.

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

Ahh really? I havent messed with Vista since it first came out so I havent tried any programming on it with the updated version. When it first came out, I had it on my computer and just got tired of messing with it so I swapped back to XP. I may have to give Vista a shot again.

Yup, I even run an archaic version of 16 bit assembly language programming with no problem at all. i could try running a copy of Turbo pascal on it from ~1998 If i got bored.

I really do like vista... and office 07 is growing on me. Just make sure you have plenty of resources

 

[konechiwa 10+ year member]

I had vista on my machine. Used to, actually. NVIDIA drivers wouldn't work. Tried every single one. Tried 32bit (reloaded vista 32) didn't work. 64bit wouldn't work (on 64bit ultimate). Finally got it to work for some reason and then my computer crashed (i.e. Windows died).

Not going back to it.

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

I had vista on my machine. Used to, actually. NVIDIA drivers wouldn't work. Tried every single one. Tried 32bit (reloaded vista 32) didn't work. 64bit wouldn't work (on 64bit ultimate). Finally got it to work for some reason and then my computer crashed (i.e. Windows died).

Not going back to it.

All my drivers were found automatically and functions perfecting, including my raid controller

 

[mdillon 10+ year member]

vista and xp can be stable platforms when tweaked the right way. all the third party crap that dell, gateway, hp, etc. install kills your performance. the best way to run a windows OS is to buy a copy from the store and install yourself, no extra crap. only the stuff you need.

 

[konechiwa 10+ year member]

All my drivers were found automatically and functions perfecting, including my raid controller

well aren't you the lucky one.

You don't know what is like to have a 1 rating for your graphics then.

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

nope, My vista experience has been quite the good one, guess im the exception? Or everyone else is dumb and cant get drivers to work

 

[IamDeMan 5,000+ posts]

What all is involved?//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT2094892904.html

I dual boot, and its the same dual boot screen I have been dealing with for the past ~4 years. Nothing special with it

It's not the same. Vista is using BCD not boot ini.

On XP and earlier Windows PCs, making Windows and Linux live together was almost automatic. Any of the major distributions made it easy. With Vista, things have changed. Microsoft has deep-sixed its old boot.ini bootloader in favor of a new bootloader.
The new bootloader, BCD (Boot Configuration Data), is designed to be firmware-independent. It also comes with a new boot option editing tool, BCDEdit.exe, which isn't so much user-friendly as user-hostile. I'm not, by the way, talking here as someone whose chief concern is dual-booting Linux. BCDEdit is a pain to work with no matter how you're modifying Vista's boot behavior. Unfortunately, though, you're going to have to work with Vista bootloader, because Vista doesn't deal well with being installed on a system that already has an operating system on it that you mean to keep.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

I am still not a fan of Office 07.

I don't like the lack of customization in excel. I have subtotal and format column with those little icons at the top. With Excel 07, I will have to click around...I think. I have only used it at school where they may have defeated that feature.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

vista and xp can be stable platforms when tweaked the right way. all the third party crap that dell, gateway, hp, etc. install kills your performance. the best way to run a windows OS is to buy a copy from the store and install yourself, no extra crap. only the stuff you need.

Yeah, but dell and HP have those small form factor computers. I haven't seen where you can buy a 12 x 4 x 10 case from newegg or tigerdirect.