Vista Rocks!

[Marilyn. 340]

yeah if you put vista on an older computer you might have probs and yeah some of your older programs might not work with Vista...

[PlatyPius 5]

It's a Windows-ized version of OS-X. It's made for idiots. Unfortunately, people who aren't idiots can't find anything with Vista.

I'm an IT guy. I can set up an XP computer on our network in about 2 minutes. It took me 15 minutes on Vista. NOTHING is in a place that makes sense. But it's pretty and flashy!

As I mentioned earlier..... Vista blows goats.

If it's made for idiots why don't you like it I.T. guy?

LOL I think VJ may be about to see its very first computer flame war!!

No... because I honestly don't give a sh!t.

This person is obviously the sort of person that Vista was designed for.... someone who would gladly get on their knees for Bill Gates. I use Windows. But I've also used pretty much every other operating system that there is. I KNOW that Windows sucks, but I need it for many of my applications.

As mox mentioned.... any OS that requires 2GB of memory MINIMUM is seriously bloated. I have a Linux machine that has 512MB of memory but is faster than a Vista machine. Hell, I have an old iMac (the grey Digital Video version) with 256MB of memory and a 400MHz processor that is probably faster than a new Dell or HP with Vista.

I had a Linux server that was on - without a single reboot - for 72 weeks. Try that with a Windows machine.

[Marilyn. 340]

I am no idiot and I am fine with Vista...

I also do not worship at the altar of Bill Gates..

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Platy,

That's too bad. I'm in the middle of another slow Sunday evening and would've had your back in the event of a computer flame war.

[Teacher Mark 53]

The interface is only one of the problems. Yes, everything has been gratuitously and illogically moved around. There was no real philosophy put into the interface, they just wanted to make it look pretty. Sit down and use a Mac sometime and you will see exactly what I'm talking about. OS X (the Mac OS) was carefuly designed from the ground up to be intuitive. Vista wasn't so much designed as ordained by committee.

But the biggest problem with Vista is that it's simply a resource hog. Walk away from your computer sometime with no applications running. Come back in an hour and listen to your disk drive churning. And I don't mean a little click here and there. I mean heavy duty IO. What is it doing? I don't know. I have dual-core pentiums, 8GB memory, and a 500GB hard drive. My Vista machine is anything but resource starved. And yet it thrashes away continuously. (no, it's not antivirus or anything else. I shut all that down looking for what the issue might be, and it's a brand new installation, no shareware, etc.)

There's something wrong with an operating system that requires a minimum of 2GB memory just to run the OS. Especially when you consider that it's only job in life is to run your spreadsheets and games and browser.

O.K. That's the answer I was looking for. I'm afraid to even touch a Mac right now (really can't afford it).

[PlatyPius 5]

Sorry Troll. I reserve my internet sparring for those whom I actually feel something for, whether it be love or hate. Usually. Sometimes I just rant at random people. Hmmm....Actually, that's what I usually do, isn't it?

Let's see.....

HOW COULD YOU LIKE VISTA, YOU INSIGNIFICANT FROG TESTICLE?????

Is that better?

Edited April 7, 2008 by PlatyPius

[Teacher Mark 53]

I am no idiot and I am fine with Vista...

I also do not worship at the altar of Bill Gates..

Neither do I. That was just to get em' going.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Just on the issue of 3rd party software....Microsoft doesn't want them running on the OS without explicit permission (meaniing, they want to be paid licensing fees from every developer out there)...and that sucks monkey balls. You shouldn't need Microsoft's permission to work in tandem with their OS, in my opinion.

Edited April 7, 2008 by Mister Fancypants

[Teacher Mark 53]

Sorry Troll. I reserve my internet sparring for those whom I actually feel something for, whether it be love or hate. Usually. Sometimes I just rant at random people. Hmmm....Actually, that's what I usually do, isn't it?

Let's see.....

HOW COULD YOU LIKE VISTA, YOU INSIGNIFICANT FROG TESTICLE?????

Is that better?

Frog testicle??

Edited April 7, 2008 by WideAwakeInTheUSA

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Sorry Troll. I reserve my internet sparring for those whom I actually feel something for, whether it be love or hate. Usually. Sometimes I just rant at random people. Hmmm....Actually, that's what I usually do, isn't it?

Let's see.....

HOW COULD YOU LIKE VISTA, YOU INSIGNIFICANT FROG TESTICLE?????

Is that better?

[PlatyPius 5]

Sorry Troll. I reserve my internet sparring for those whom I actually feel something for, whether it be love or hate. Usually. Sometimes I just rant at random people. Hmmm....Actually, that's what I usually do, isn't it?

Let's see.....

HOW COULD YOU LIKE VISTA, YOU INSIGNIFICANT FROG TESTICLE?????

Is that better?

Frog testicle??

It was between that and "You dripping goat #######!"

Bonus points to anyone who can name the author who coined those terms/phrases...

[Kathryn41 3,205]

My new Acer Extensa 5420, I and my IT (programmer) husband do NOT like Vista! It is a DOG to work with! We ended up buying a 2 G USB flash drive to give Vista additional memory to 'hog' because it was taking forever to load and to access anything - even simple stuff. My husband finally went through and we deleted or disabled a lot of the unnecessary bells and whistles (the ones he could find at any rate!) and he agrees - there is no sense or order to the application at all. The issues we have - and we hoped would be addressed by removing some of the junk - is that the USB ports don't always recognize the devices we have plugged in on start up so I have to unplug the Flash drive and replug it in for the computer to recognize it on start up and unplug my firelight external drive and plug it back in. I keep my photos stored on the firelight. We have an internal network here at the house as well and if the system has been idle for any length of time (an hour), then the computer stops being able to find the internet link and will only connect to the internal network. I have to manually disconnect and re-connect it to the external modem - which sometimes doesn't work and I have to reboot. It has no trouble finding it on its own on start up, mind you. As well, without warning and no consistent trigger - and no incidents reports on the log to try and track it down - the screen just suddenly blanks out. So, I have to turn off the computer, turn it back on again, go through all of the messages about turning it off without being properly closed down. My husband is totally perplexed and the tech people at BestBuy where we bought it are totally perplexed - the response is , well, Vista still has some problems! Grrr!

Anyway, I would have preferred to keep my XP but when my old laptop died (and it really died ) we decided it was time for a new machine. I like the Acer - I don't like Vista. GRRRRRRRRRR.

And - worse of all - there are extremely limited options to change the appearance colours of the screens - I am stuck with Blues and I want greens and golds! (hehehehe)

Edited April 7, 2008 by Kathryn41

[Teacher Mark 53]

Sorry Troll. I reserve my internet sparring for those whom I actually feel something for, whether it be love or hate. Usually. Sometimes I just rant at random people. Hmmm....Actually, that's what I usually do, isn't it?

Let's see.....

HOW COULD YOU LIKE VISTA, YOU INSIGNIFICANT FROG TESTICLE?????

Is that better?

Frog testicle??

It was between that and "You dripping goat #######!"

Bonus points to anyone who can name the author who coined those terms/phrases...

Hunter Thompson

[Marilyn. 340]

My new Acer Extensa 5420, I and my IT (programmer) husband do NOT like Vista! It is a DOG to work with! We ended up buying a 2 G USB flash drive to give Vista additional memory to 'hog' because it was taking forever to load and to access anything - even simple stuff. My husband finally went through and we deleted or disabled a lot of the unnecessary bells and whistles (the ones he could find at any rate!) and he agrees - there is no sense or order to the application at all. The issues we have - and we hoped would be addressed by removing some of the junk - is that the USB ports don't always recognize the devices we have plugged in on start up so I have to unplug the Flash drive and replug it in for the computer to recognize it on start up and unplug my firelight external drive and plug it back in. I keep my photos stored on the firelight. We have an internal network here at the house as well and if the system has been idle for any length of time (an hour), then the computer stops being able to find the internet link and will only connect to the internal network. I have to manually disconnect and re-connect it to the external modem - which sometimes doesn't work and I have to reboot. It has no trouble finding it on its own on start up, mind you. As well, without warning and no consistent trigger - and no incidents reports on the log to try and track it down - the screen just suddenly blanks out. So, I have to turn off the computer, turn it back on again, go through all of the messages about turning it off without being properly closed down. My husband is totally perplexed and the tech people at BestBuy where we bought it are totally perplexed - the response is , well, Vista still has some problems! Grrr!

Anyway, I would have preferred to keep my XP but when my old laptop died (and it really died ) we decided it was time for a new machine. I like the Acer - I don't like Vista. GRRRRRRRRRR.

And - worse of all - there are extremely limited options to change the appearance colours of the screens - I am stuck with Blues and I want greens and golds! (hehehehe)

you can change it if you right click on your desktop and then click on personalize and then click on window color and appearance.. you can almost get any colour you want....

it even lets you access the classic options...

Edited April 7, 2008 by MarilynP

[GaryC 7]

Sorry Troll. I reserve my internet sparring for those whom I actually feel something for, whether it be love or hate. Usually. Sometimes I just rant at random people. Hmmm....Actually, that's what I usually do, isn't it?

Let's see.....

HOW COULD YOU LIKE VISTA, YOU INSIGNIFICANT FROG TESTICLE?????

Is that better?

Frog testicle??

It was between that and "You dripping goat #######!"

Bonus points to anyone who can name the author who coined those terms/phrases...

I thought it was from "The Stand" by Steven King.