FN-GM Posted July 22, 2008 Posted July 22, 2008 Just out of curiosity how many windows users are coming round to Windows Vista now it has been out for a little while?
powdarrmonkey Posted July 22, 2008 Posted July 22, 2008 Can we have some vaguer poll responses? I'm coming round a little at home, but I'd never dream of deploying it anywhere serious.
teejay Posted July 22, 2008 Posted July 22, 2008 Tried it, wiped it, staying with XP until Windows 7 comes out or moving to linux if we can.
FN-GM Posted July 22, 2008 Author Posted July 22, 2008 I would like to keep it simple, i mean for home use. Z
Quackers Posted July 22, 2008 Posted July 22, 2008 thought i would give it another go a few weeks ago, it made my head hurt just using it, no joke, i had banging pains, its vile. When Vista was first out i tried it on some PC's and on those it did seem quicker than XP, but i have lothed it ever since, its horrid. I would rather use Windows NT 3.51, at least its not clutterd and hard to use like Vista is. 1
KarlGoddard Posted July 22, 2008 Posted July 22, 2008 this doesn't sound too good for my shiny new Vista loaded tosh laptop... thank fook UPS couldn't find my house and had to rearrange delivery.... don't know if I want it now
Quackers Posted July 22, 2008 Posted July 22, 2008 this doesn't sound too good for my shiny new Vista loaded tosh laptop... thank fook UPS couldn't find my house and had to rearrange delivery.... don't know if I want it now Just wipe it and install XP like every one else does who gets a laptop poisned with Vista.
eejit Posted July 22, 2008 Posted July 22, 2008 On my own laptop I use Server 2008 as my desktop - it's great for testing stuff with Hyper-V and you can have all the Vista desktop look/gadgets that you like.
somabc Posted July 22, 2008 Posted July 22, 2008 I would say its rubbish, but I now have Vista x64 on a quad core with 4GB of RAM and it is pretty good, certainly usable. note: still only performs like xp on dual core and 2GB of RAM
Edu-IT Posted July 22, 2008 Posted July 22, 2008 Yep, still sucks. With respect you are favoured towards Linux and other open source products from what I've seen. That isn't a negative thing, I'm just saying.
webman Posted July 22, 2008 Posted July 22, 2008 With respect you are favoured towards Linux and other open source products from what I've seen. That isn't a negative thing, I'm just saying. With respect you are correct. What's your point?
Edu-IT Posted July 22, 2008 Posted July 22, 2008 With respect you are correct. What's your point? Your view might be slightly skewed since you don't particularly like Microsoft at the best of times.
webman Posted July 22, 2008 Posted July 22, 2008 You view might be slightly skewed. Granted I have a passion for open source... and a general dislike for Microsoft... but enjoying the benefits and championing the use of one operating system does not prevent me from doing the same with others. I still quite like Windows XP for example. As well as FreeBSD. They each have their own respective merits in my opinion. I just think Vista is pathetic, along with the majority of voters in this thread
kesomir Posted July 22, 2008 Posted July 22, 2008 I use 64bit vista home premium at home and dual boot vista home premium 32bit and ubuntu 8.04 32b on my dell laptop. On the whole I'm pretty happy with vista - not had any major issues with drivers or applications, although I've had a few blue screens when using winscp on the 32bit one for large file transfers (unlike xp). I haven't reached the point where I have to wipe and reinstall like I did on xp every 6-12 months, but I think It'll probably happen at some point. That said, I know I'm taking a performance hit on vista, although I have 4gig of ram in the home desktop and want 64bit for the memory addressing (xp 64 isn't fun from what I've heard and I don't want to play with PAE). Took a while to get past the parts they moved around just to make it look like they'd changed anything, but I'm mostly ok with that now. I prefer gnome as a desktop environment to either xp or vista, but I'm hooked into the Adobe Creative suite + a few extras and just plain like the convenience of a large install base platform most of the time. At school all the fat clients are currently running xp pro - but I installed vista on one to test and it ran fine (upgraded them all to 2gig ram last year - 3ghz P4 dell optiplex). Don't know about running vista on the clients - I don't think it would be too much of a problem and the performance hit prob wouldn't be noticable for the use the machines get (Flash/Sherston/low req ed apps). It's one of those try and see things I guess, which is uncertainty you can do without if on a bigger network than mine.
john Posted July 22, 2008 Posted July 22, 2008 I likey But then again I have been a user of it for years now, all the way through the betas, I'm starting to bore of it now, time for Windows 7 hehe Still have dual boot on my laptop though and it still embarasses me in key moments like the stupid dual display feature on it and key presentations at interviews (a member on here knows what I mean as he was there) not funny, but hey live and learn, don't run Vista on your 4 year old laptop was the lesson!
torledo Posted July 23, 2008 Posted July 23, 2008 I use 64bit vista home premium at home and dual boot vista home premium 32bit and ubuntu 8.04 32b on my dell laptop. On the whole I'm pretty happy with vista - not had any major issues with drivers or applications, although I've had a few blue screens when using winscp on the 32bit one for large file transfers (unlike xp). I haven't reached the point where I have to wipe and reinstall like I did on xp every 6-12 months, but I think It'll probably happen at some point. That said, I know I'm taking a performance hit on vista, although I have 4gig of ram in the home desktop and want 64bit for the memory addressing (xp 64 isn't fun from what I've heard and I don't want to play with PAE). Took a while to get past the parts they moved around just to make it look like they'd changed anything, but I'm mostly ok with that now. I prefer gnome as a desktop environment to either xp or vista, but I'm hooked into the Adobe Creative suite + a few extras and just plain like the convenience of a large install base platform most of the time. At school all the fat clients are currently running xp pro - but I installed vista on one to test and it ran fine (upgraded them all to 2gig ram last year - 3ghz P4 dell optiplex). Don't know about running vista on the clients - I don't think it would be too much of a problem and the performance hit prob wouldn't be noticable for the use the machines get (Flash/Sherston/low req ed apps). It's one of those try and see things I guess, which is uncertainty you can do without if on a bigger network than mine. very considered points kesomir, one of the few posts i've read which goes beyond the usual vista sux comments. I agree with you that it's a suck it and see approach for use on a school network, i suspect some of the issues with it as a network operating system are overemphasised....i've been questioning the bizarre affinity with XP for some time now, you'd be forgiven for thinking XP was some rock solid, high performing OS which it clearly isn't beause of the backlash to Vista. XP is no closer to the panacea of what an OS should be in this day and age than NT and 2000 were when they were realised - all modern operating systems are just too high maintenance - that's true for XP as it is for Vista. Until manufacturers truly understand and implement the idea of a self-optimizing OS then the XP vs Vista arguments are lame. Because fundamentally they both suck when you look at it from the point of view of where personal computing is heading. Windows 7 will go no nearer to changing the status go, but..... Windows 7 is around the corner, and it looks as if Microsoft will be focusing on acting on customer feedback to Vista...7 is in effect going to be an incremental upgrade so maybe that'll be the one to convince XP users to 'upgrade'. but fwiw i've found the idea of moving over to Vista is more appealing. Microsoft development effors over the next couple of years are focused on vista so improvements in performance will come and little things about the interface i prefer to XP. XP is looking tired GUI wise but I'd still run XP where necessary when i need certain funcitonality or access to certain legacy apps running in a VM....but for day-to-day usage i'd choose Vista myself.
Haptic Posted July 23, 2008 Posted July 23, 2008 Have it on dual boot for a nice and really slow transition while program compatibility is sorted out!
localzuk Posted July 23, 2008 Posted July 23, 2008 I took the opportunity to migrate 95% of my home computer usage to Linux from XP. So now, I just have XP on a small partition for the occasional game that doesn't yet work with Wine but have only booted into it about 3 times in the last month or 2. I'm not a big gamer, so I can not see myself buying Vista for any of the latest games. I'm happy with EVE online in Linux at the moment
ZeroHour Posted July 23, 2008 Posted July 23, 2008 I'm not a big gamer.... I'm happy with EVE online in Linux at the moment You mean you just have such a huge game it fills your gaming viod That eve is mental stuff. I have to say I dont mind vista. I use it at home and its fine enough for what I use.
imiddleton25 Posted July 23, 2008 Posted July 23, 2008 I first installed Vista so when students and staff brought there nice new Vista machines into school i could find my way around them without too much bother. To be honest its like every new thing no one likes change but the more you use it the more it grows on you. Microsoft are not going to go backwards with windows, so windows 7 and beyond will be a progression from Vista. Its personal preference in the end I have it at home and on my tablet but all the other 230 workstations are Xp and will be for a while yet. As an IT professional its almost compulsory to keep up with the new technologies if we are offer full support to our dear users.
flyinghaggis Posted July 23, 2008 Posted July 23, 2008 IMO Windows Vista is a great OS for home users and has some significant improvments over XP for that purpose. ie Media Centre, Built-n Search Functionality, Simplified start menu and explorer view. The UI is massively improved for the most part aswell and it has better native support for a lot of devices/standards than Xp ever did (DVD writing, DVD playback/etc). The problem is that nearly all of these improvement are either useless for business (aero graphics/DX10 and Media Center functionality) or need a good deal of additional work of MS's part to be used to best effect in a server/client environment (ie. start menu and instant search)
flashsnaps Posted July 23, 2008 Posted July 23, 2008 I have ultimate running on a Laptop at home, which I barely use other than that - I am still happy with XP - can't see a reason to change over.
PEO Posted July 23, 2008 Posted July 23, 2008 I have Windows Vista Ultimate running my Multimedia PC for the familly 48inch TV. Does the Job really well. Vista runs great with good hardware to support it, pluss with the latest sp1 and adittional updates, it does just fine, saying that, I would not want to implement it in a buisness enviroment just yet. Kev
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