So I'm running Vista...

[Chillalex]

...and its not actually all that bad.

Granted my machine is a beast and I haven't really pushed any programs on it so far, but right now it feels nice. It feels like OSX first did, which I guess is what they were sort of after.

Funny story. I was originally going to install it on a partition and dual boot XP and Vista, using Vista purely for DX10 in games... of course it went tits up. I partitioned my drive fine but I found the only way to resize anything included accidentally formatting my current stuff... so now, no xp or docs, gotta reinstall everything. Gonna run knoppix in a bit though and see if I cant find all my old files yet.

I'm suprised most things work fine in it though - Unreal Tournament 3 demo ran perfectly from the install, as opposed to on XPo x64 I had to do numerous fixes.

Anyone else got experience with Vista thats mostly positive? I understand its early days for me and I will grow to hate it, but...

Edit: LOL, its quite beastly. I installed it on a 20gb partition and Vista alone has raped 18gb of that. And it seems to rape 1gb of my memory, cheers for that.

Edited October 19, 2007 by Chillalex

[jitz]

You'll find the greatest source of Vista frustration lays in the Control Panel. It's a confusing mess of options with no set form or structure, like it's stuck between XP and Vista.

[Chillalex]

oh, yeah, Ive already been majorly confused with ALL the screens it throws at me

Its like they changed everything around to alienate old users. Took me five minutes of staring at the start menu to figure out where my drives were, and where wordpad was.

[jitz]

I remember there being like three different sets of network options, all offering slightly different options, but all dealing with the same connection.

Also how the directory is viewed is fucked. Vista wants you to view huge arse icons, so you use the slider to make them smaller - that's fine. Vista forgets though, give it a few days and your icons will return to huge ones. You can't stop it, Vista has a mind of it's own. Also how the directory is listed in a sidebar is...cumbersome at best.

[scoot]

im running vista on 2GB RAM, athlon 4400 X2 and a decent gigabyte mobo. and it runs very smooth. no niggles or anything, however the canned machines sold at the shop are all running on 512MB-1GB max at the moment which sucks. im running it litterally to find out things i dont already know about the system that may come in handy when repairing them. however on a personal level, ive grown on vista, like i grew on XP.

in some ways vista does seem to be the right way forward, but in others it lacks. its kind of crap that vienna is only 3 years away, XP lasted over half a decade, and i dare say, it would have lasted another couple of years without the need for vista.

imo, vista COULD wind up the way windows ME and windows 2000 did, in that it may be replaced befopre reaching any proper height

miond you ME was the blue screen machine