Hate windows 7

[DMGrier]

All Microsoft Windows computer operating systems are good if you know how to use them properly.

Please do not get me started on Windows Vista, when Vista would fail me in speed or reliability Ubuntu kept me going. Vista was very bad and it shows cause before windows 7 Apple and the Linux community got to see a tidal wave of new users because consumers were unhappy with Vista, I remember being a member on here seeing to many people trying to figure out how to run XP on there new Vista laptop.

 

[wolfeking]

I have to agree with stars here. I used Vista when it came out on a Compaq desktop and never had an issue asside from a RAM failure, but I can not tag that on Windows.
I still use vista, and against what most say I would take it over XP anyday. But I would go to windows 2000 over everything else.

 

[NyxCharon]

I have to agree with stars here. I used Vista when it came out on a Compaq desktop and never had an issue asside from a RAM failure, but I can not tag that on Windows.

That. I too have a compaq that came with vista, and it worked great. Never a single issue. Ran vista for a couple years until win7 came out. As such, i never understood all the people that had such a deep hatred for vista.

 

[Dngrsone]

... I never understood all the people that had such a deep hatred for vista.

For me, as an advanced XP user, I was constantly fighting VIsta to get it to do what I wanted to do.

Vista is a great OS... if you are a typical Windrone who just want something to work and are content with the false sense of security given by constant requests for confirmation (yes, I know it can be turned off...).

If you want or need to be able to access the backend on a regular basis (like turning off the damn firewall after every freakin' update), then it was a pain in the rear, at best.

OH, and XP emulation sucks rocks...

 

[spirit]

I have to agree with stars here. I used Vista when it came out on a Compaq desktop and never had an issue asside from a RAM failure, but I can not tag that on Windows.
I still use vista, and against what most say I would take it over XP anyday. But I would go to windows 2000 over everything else.

Vista's fine. Just update it to SP2 and there you have it. Quite a nice OS. I would take Vista over XP anyday too.

 

[strollin]

I skipped Vista, went straight from XP to Win 7. After using and liking Win 7 for awhile, I acquired a laptop that had Vista on it. At first, I was very apprehensive due to all of the negatives I had heard about Vista but after using it I couldn't believe how similar it was to Win 7. I found Vista to be a perfectly usable OS (although I still prefer Win 7).

My son has a laptop that came with Vista and although he is perfectly capable of upgrading it from Vista to Win 7, he's content with Vista with no plans to upgrade.

 

[dazzer2011]

if you have windows 7 profesional or upwards then you can acces xp mode which will give you a complete xp desktop which can run inside windows 7, there is hardly any setup required for this.

 

[DMGrier]

AS I SAID VISTA WAS NOT BAD AFTER SP1, before it was completely horrible. I remember my Laptop running Ubuntu 8.04 would do anything (except game) faster then my Vista desktop.

Ubuntu 8.04 was so light, what happened to those days?

 

[wolfeking]

Ubuntu 8.04 was so light, what happened to those days?

they tried to go after OSX and windows happened.

 

[DMGrier]

Well Windows is not a options for me, I have tried to go back to Windows a couple of times but it just never works do to how to slow it is and poor software, hell since 12.04 came out I did a dual boot on my wifes computer and to my surprise she hasnt used windows since. I asked her and she felt like it boot and open programs a little faster plus she asked for a list of open source projects for picture editing and I gave her a list and also to my surprise she navigated easily through the app center to them.

I like Windows but it is not for me, a little slow and poor design and I remember arguing that it was a good OS before I had ever used linux back when Tlarkin used to always correct me on it. After using Linux for a few years now and becoming somewhat comfterable with them I will have to say he is right.

 

[Okedokey]

Vista is an abortion.

 

[wolfeking]

I keep hearing the same thing over and over bigfella, but it works the same for me as 7 does. I doubt very seriously that most people would be able to see the difference as far as use is considered especially if they have 3GB or more of RAM installed and a modern multicore processor.

 

[Okedokey]

I did mate, constant hangs, constant interference with UAC, turn it off and you're disabling security and have to rely on 3rd party protection, slower in everyway. Windows 7 is noticiably faster in every way. It really was an awful OS, up there with ME.

 

[wolfeking]

I was not saying that you didn't see issues. What I am saying is that I have yet to see a difference between them, and that was going from a compaq desktop way back when it was released (I do not remember quite what it had, but I di remember 250GB and 512 MB, and AMD I think), up to a DV7 and Toshiba (L305) and even the D630. I have never ran into issues that could not be related to hardware (artifacting and the like). There may be issues with it, but it is useful as is.

 

[Dragunov IV 424]

Vista is an abortion.

Is not, vista is great.

 

[spirit]

Is not, vista is great.

It's not a bad OS but not the best. I'm actually using it right now as I type this on my Core 2 Quad rig. It's running fine. Windows 7 is faster than Vista, but not massively faster.

I have a feeling that the whole "Windows Vista vs Windows 7" debate is one that is never going to end. At the end of the day, people have their own opinions on them. I like them both, but I will agree that Windows 7 is definitely a better all-rounder.

 

[StrangleHold]

Vista is an abortion.

lol. Your right. Vista was to XP as ME was to 98. Over bloated memory hog crashing pig. 7 should have been a SP for Vista for free. We all got ripped off.

 

[Davis Goertzen]

I think there were two major problems when Vista was initially released.

1. It still had a lot of bugs which hadn't been ironed out.

2. Many of the computers being loaded with it were not powerful enough to run it smoothly and reliably.

Combine those two factors, and it's quite easy to understand how it got a bad rap. A few years after release, things weren't so bad.

 

[DMGrier]

I think there were two major problems when Vista was initially released.

1. It still had a lot of bugs which hadn't been ironed out.

2. Many of the computers being loaded with it were not powerful enough to run it smoothly and reliably.

Combine those two factors, and it's quite easy to understand how it got a bad rap. A few years after release, things weren't so bad.

I read about those also I seen this thing were MS blamed the hardware companies, I guess poorly written drivers was another problem as well.

 

[spirit]

I read about those also I seen this thing were MS blamed the hardware companies, I guess poorly written drivers was another problem as well.

NVIDIA drivers for Vista were awful in the early days of Vista IIRC and drivers for older hardware (especially printers and scanners usually) were never updated to work with Vista. :/