XP or Vista?

rts_conrad

rts_conrad

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In the past few days I've been busy getting all the parts for my custom made rig and I'm wondering what OS I should install, XP or Vista? I'm kind of more inclined to Vista because the interface is much neater, but I'm always hearing bad things about it.
 
Indeed, search for other threads on XP vs. Vista. People are getting tired of bashing each other over a couple of crappy MS operating system, Vista wins anyway. Because Microsoft says so. And some people might even consider this thread a spam...
 
hackapelite said:
Indeed, search for other threads on XP vs. Vista. People are getting tired of bashing each other over a couple of crappy MS operating system, Vista wins anyway. Because Microsoft says so. And some people might even consider this thread a spam...
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I agree but still read my thread. :)
 
There's already about 100 threads on Vista. Having it set as the default OS with XP on another drive I hardly even boot into XP anymore since despite grumblings from some who never worked with the newer version long enough to learn how to run it.

It does have a lot of good points while some changes are still a little irritating. The rest of it is purely "user preferences" and not seeing where some needed improvements were made especially now that the first service pack was just released with some fixes seen like recognising the full amount of system memory when 4gb installed due to the 3gb barrier in the 32bit kernel.

Pros> A better crash control when games lock seeing the option to bring up the task manager. In XP you often see hard boots by pressing the reset button. Better partitioning tools with the options to resize and even format existing partitions with the drive tools on the installation disk as well as being able to resize secondary partitions with the Disk Management tool. Automatic startup repair tool for restoring boot information and files.

Cons: No more add/remove Windows components as seen in all versions going back to 98. Gadgets chew up resources and amount to nothing more then "eye candy" as the expression goes. Others will point at other things as well.
 
Get XP although Vista has newer games, Vista has better interface and all but it lags your computer quite a lot even if you have lots of RAM.
 
I’m stuck in between the 2 right now. I do most of my video editing on vista but once I’m done I switch back to XP for everything else.

I only have vista on my desktop because of the 64 bit.
 
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There are too many different versions of vista. Make sure you sit down and read about the differences in all of them before you decide witch on if you go that rout.
 
If you got more than 2GB of RAM just get a Vista. Xp is outdated. it's a fact. You are gonna change to Vista sooner or later why not now.
 
jgotfire said:
I’m stuck in between the 2 right now. I do most of my video editing on vista but once I’m done I switch back to XP for everything else.

I only have vista on my desktop because of the 64 bit.
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I dual boot both along with the ubuntu 7.10 distro of Linux at the present time. The only reason XP is still on for video capturing/editing since I still haven't found the Vista equivalent on the software needed I would use. Plus some other games as well as softwares were written primariliy for XP.

jgotfire said:
will not let me edit...

There are too many different versions of vista. Make sure you sit down and read about the differences in all of them before you decide witch on if you go that rout.
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Too many editions? Not really! XP saw Home, Pro, MCE, and the 64bit Pro(first 64bit Windows) editions there while Vista sees Basic, Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise(corporate edition). Basic is the essentials only while Business is more for the small or home business environment.

Home Premium and Ultimate are the more widely used on home pcs with Ultimate offering networking support. To see the comparison between editions, http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/default.mspx

darkplanet said:
If you got more than 2GB of RAM just get a Vista. Xp is outdated. it's a fact. You are gonna change to Vista sooner or later why not now.
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The one main thing about XP is that it's been the main version for twice as long as any previous version due to the lengthy delays seen with Vista. Once you run Vista as the default version for a good lengthy period of time and then run XP it feels like someone running XP suddenly going back to 98/NT!

Despite some things not preferred about the new version there are some long needed improvements. One is seen easily when a game or app locks everything up Vista displays far better crash control. In XP when a game locks solid you hit the reset button for the hard boot.

With Vista you hit the ctrl-alt-del keys and have the option of opening the task manager to close something up and return to the desktop or simply shutdown. As for using more memory I would expect to see with any updated version of Windows since when XP was first seen 512mb to 768mb was the big numbers as far as ram was concerned on desktops. Now that you see boards with 8gb and 16gb max capacities who worries about 512 over XP's 128mb?
 
PC eye
I still have a stack of SPARC 10’s and 20’s and an 800 MHz Intel some thing that I do all of my Linux (Red hat 7) and sun micro on. I do a lot of telneting.

IMO and running 20 some comps what is an OS unless it has good networking support.
 
With XP or Vista you would then have to go with the edition that offered support in that area. For XP that would be the Pro edition and with Vista you would look at the Ultimate if not Enterprise for the increased support seen there. Your sig already shows the 64bit edtition of one of the two mentioned as far as Vista is concerned.

The current addition of ubuntu here is temporary since the live cd install is limited in too many ways. That was simply to test with a beta program being run at the present time. For OSs in general however the particular one selected as far as OS, version, edition, etc. has to be done according to what the system is primarily used for.

Which would you use for networking and desktop application only 98SE or NT 4.0? The question is certainly a one look answer there. Namely you wouldn't be using 98SE for networking while NT wouldn't be any good OS for strictly desktop application.
 
There are also customizations being seen for Vista as well. You can't run an XP theme on Vista quite yet while most customizations are essentially a few changes seen in the system registry along with a file or two added. When the next version is about to come out you'll probably see "Vienna themes for Vista"! :P
 
gamer - XP
but, if you have a powerful enough system to run it smoothly, run vista...but here's the thing: XP only recognizes 3.25 GB of RAM, while vista 64bit recognizes up to 128 GB of ram (which is ridiculously high, i know). so, what i would do if i had the money, is i would get like 4 gigs of ram and dual boot XP and Vista.
 
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