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I absolutely loathe Windows Vista.
« on: July 07, 2009, 01:19:46 AM »
I absolutely loathe Windows Vista.
That is all.


eta: I'm just blowing off steam.
I am working on a client's laptop, trying to fix an IE 8 problem.  Vista makes every task, even the ones most simple in XP, quadruply redundantly difficult.
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Re: I absolutely loathe Windows Vista.
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2009, 01:26:16 AM »
As do I.
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Re: I absolutely loathe Windows Vista.
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2009, 01:26:24 AM »
I heard it doesn't like you, either.
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Re: I absolutely loathe Windows Vista.
« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2009, 01:27:53 AM »
Quote from: fistful on July 07, 2009, 01:26:24 AM
I heard it doesn't like you, either.

It's a personality clash, or so I've been told.
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Re: I absolutely loathe Windows Vista.
« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2009, 01:27:55 AM »
Mandatory "use Linux" comment incoming in 5 4 3 2 1....
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Re: I absolutely loathe Windows Vista.
« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2009, 01:30:08 AM »
Quote from: Balog on July 07, 2009, 01:27:55 AM
Mandatory "use Linux" comment incoming in 5 4 3 2 1....

Ah, hell, I didn't think of that.  Where's my Linux uber alles comment deflector...?
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Re: I absolutely loathe Windows Vista.
« Reply #6 on: July 07, 2009, 01:42:02 AM »
Use linux.
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Re: I absolutely loathe Windows Vista.
« Reply #7 on: July 07, 2009, 01:45:46 AM »
Well, that didn't take very darned long, did it?  =|
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Re: I absolutely loathe Windows Vista.
« Reply #8 on: July 07, 2009, 02:26:51 AM »
You know, I've still yet to use vista for anything.  Well, okay, I think I opened powerpoint on a vista machine once.   =D  Vista is my one lesson learned from the mistakes of others.
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Re: I absolutely loathe Windows Vista.
« Reply #9 on: July 07, 2009, 02:30:20 AM »
I've got Vista on my laptop.  Not as bad as I feared, but not that great, either.  The only reason I haven't replaced it with XP is that I only have one license that is already in use on this computer, and I'm too cheap to buy another one. 

One of these days I might put Ubuntu on it.  Maybe.
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« Reply #10 on: July 07, 2009, 02:33:40 AM »
I have Vista on one of my laptops, and honestly, it works great.  I don't know what the hubbub is about.
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Re: I absolutely loathe Windows Vista.
« Reply #11 on: July 07, 2009, 02:37:27 AM »
I have a brand-new Gateway Core2Duo desktop machine with factory installed Vista.

The computer is surplus to me, and I've even entertained the idea of wiping the hard drive and installing XP Pro for whoever wants it. 
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Re: I absolutely loathe Windows Vista.
« Reply #12 on: July 07, 2009, 05:06:50 AM »
What's Vista doing that makes it more difficult?

I've used it, don't dislike it. In fact found one or two things useful enough to seek out their compiz equivalents. I've not tinkered with it though.
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Re: I absolutely loathe Windows Vista.
« Reply #13 on: July 07, 2009, 08:04:10 AM »
I have been runing PCs since 1984 or so and Vista seems quite good at hiding the bits that I want to noodle.
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Re: I absolutely loathe Windows Vista.
« Reply #14 on: July 07, 2009, 10:14:35 AM »
Pfft.  Lightweight sissy girly man.  I still run Windows ME and I'm proud of it!

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Re: I absolutely loathe Windows Vista.
« Reply #15 on: July 07, 2009, 11:09:35 AM »
Am I the only person on the face of the planet who hasn't had any troubles with Vista? I've been using it for years, and I've had fewer problems than I've had with XP. I must not be doing something right...
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« Reply #16 on: July 07, 2009, 11:12:40 AM »
Hmmm, Nightfall must be in league with the daemon OS. Get yer pitchforks and torches boys.
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Re: I absolutely loathe Windows Vista.
« Reply #17 on: July 07, 2009, 11:17:09 AM »

Quote from: Gewehr98 on July 07, 2009, 02:37:27 AM
I have a brand-new Gateway Core2Duo desktop machine with factory installed Vista.

The computer is surplus to me, and I've even entertained the idea of wiping the hard drive and installing XP Pro for whoever wants it. 

That's probably what I'm going to do with the 'puter my mother bought. Vista hogs up the memory and I have to keep cleaning things up to keep it running.

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Re: I absolutely loathe Windows Vista.
« Reply #18 on: July 07, 2009, 11:22:21 AM »
I started using VISTA after my previous PC died. At first, there was a problem with hardware compatibility, because drivers were not available. That problem went away after a few months. The next biggest problem was software incompatibility. Some software companies decided they would not support VISTA, and made no attempt to correct malfunctions caused by the programs making use of unsupported "features" of the old XP system. The third issue was the heavy handed "protection" that MicroSoft decided to cram down the throat of the users. Far to many security related pop up boxes. Most of the security stuff could be bypassed with a bit of snooping and setting some parameters in the system.

VISTA does have some very good features that are user oriented, but the aggravation that most people have with the system counteracts the benefits. It has a steeper learning curve than most people are comfortable with. At first I hated it, but after a couple of years I would not want to go back to XP.

I will take a wait and see approach to the new operating system they are developing. It normally takes about a year after release to the public before MicroSoft gets the worst of the bugs out.
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Re: I absolutely loathe Windows Vista.
« Reply #19 on: July 07, 2009, 12:22:59 PM »
Vista worked alright for me, but Windows 7 is what Vista should have been. I've been running 7 since the release candidate came out, and it's a vast improvement in speed and stability for me. The annoying UAC messages are much less frequent, and can be easily tuned to rarely or not come up at all if that's what one wishes.
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« Reply #20 on: July 07, 2009, 02:31:57 PM »
Marnoot, I'll definitely agree with you there.  Windows 7 (at least the beta version I'm using) is nowhere near the resource hog that Vista has become.
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« Reply #21 on: July 07, 2009, 02:59:01 PM »
I rather like it myself.
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Re: I absolutely loathe Windows Vista.
« Reply #22 on: July 07, 2009, 05:40:01 PM »
Quote from: Ragnar Danneskjold on July 07, 2009, 02:33:40 AM
I don't know what the hubbub is about.

Having no experience with Vista, my theory is that it failed to offer the Windows Classic theme, which made a lot of geeks very cranky.  Windows 7 then, should prove to be just Vista with the Classic theme available. 

 
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« Reply #23 on: July 07, 2009, 07:50:44 PM »
Quote from: fistful on July 07, 2009, 05:40:01 PM
Having no experience with Vista, my theory is that it failed to offer the Windows Classic theme, which made a lot of geeks very cranky.  Windows 7 then, should prove to be just Vista with the Classic theme available. 

Why don't the size tags work? 

Vista does have a "windows classic" theme. ;)
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« Reply #24 on: July 07, 2009, 08:02:31 PM »
My beautiful theory in tatters!
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