I'm tired of seeing countless threads about how horrible Windows Vista is. I'm tired of hearing people at my school talk about it. I'm tired of idiots that don't know what they're talking about.
This is based on my experience with Vista, the ups, and [very few] downs.
I have been using Windows Vista for about a year, and my time with it has been phenomenal. The things I see people complain about when referring to Vista are usually one of the following:
What's great, is how most of the people who preach this crap have never even bothered to try Vista. Anyways heres my experiences with the above "problems" that seem to be so common.
1. I've never had Vista crash on me. Not once. I've had applications fail, but it had to do nothing with Vista.
2. Vista obviously uses more resources, it's a known fact. I'm not saying Vista is for everyone. If you have an older computer with 512MB of RAM and are running XP, I wouldn't recommend upgrading to Vista (it's these people that have most of the troubles). However, if you're building a new computer and need to purchase an operating system anyways, I would definitely recommend Vista, as long as you have a decent amount of RAM.
3. Ah yes, compatibility issues. I've heard that the majority of these issues (especially for Vista 64) were around when it was first released. I'm not sure if this is true or not, but (again, based on my experience) maybe it is true, as I've only had 2 programs that weren't compatible. One of them was a game from 1995 that wouldn't even work in XP, and the other was a cheap audio editing program. I found an update for the program, and it now works flawlessly.
That all being said, there are some people who deserved to be pissed off, I've seen a few youtube videos where people who have just build new computers couldn't run Vista, had errors, etc. These people should be mad, and at least get a refund.
Overall I'd say Vista is great, and it's never given me any troubles at all. I would definitely recommend it to anyone building a new system, as long as it has at least 2GB of RAM (Not much now days). The thing I didn't care for was UAC (User Account Control) once you turn it off, you'll be fine.
This is based on my experience with Vista, the ups, and [very few] downs.
I have been using Windows Vista for about a year, and my time with it has been phenomenal. The things I see people complain about when referring to Vista are usually one of the following:
- Vista is unstable.
- Vista uses too much resources
- Nothing is compatible with Vista
What's great, is how most of the people who preach this crap have never even bothered to try Vista. Anyways heres my experiences with the above "problems" that seem to be so common.
1. I've never had Vista crash on me. Not once. I've had applications fail, but it had to do nothing with Vista.
2. Vista obviously uses more resources, it's a known fact. I'm not saying Vista is for everyone. If you have an older computer with 512MB of RAM and are running XP, I wouldn't recommend upgrading to Vista (it's these people that have most of the troubles). However, if you're building a new computer and need to purchase an operating system anyways, I would definitely recommend Vista, as long as you have a decent amount of RAM.
3. Ah yes, compatibility issues. I've heard that the majority of these issues (especially for Vista 64) were around when it was first released. I'm not sure if this is true or not, but (again, based on my experience) maybe it is true, as I've only had 2 programs that weren't compatible. One of them was a game from 1995 that wouldn't even work in XP, and the other was a cheap audio editing program. I found an update for the program, and it now works flawlessly.
That all being said, there are some people who deserved to be pissed off, I've seen a few youtube videos where people who have just build new computers couldn't run Vista, had errors, etc. These people should be mad, and at least get a refund.
Overall I'd say Vista is great, and it's never given me any troubles at all. I would definitely recommend it to anyone building a new system, as long as it has at least 2GB of RAM (Not much now days). The thing I didn't care for was UAC (User Account Control) once you turn it off, you'll be fine.
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