Windows Vista, Yes it sucks ass Options

[soulshadow]

I recently bought a HP Laptop at Best buy and it came with Vista. Well all I can say is that Vista really sucks ass. I have a USB to serial adapter to run my MegaSquirt and apparently the dumb ass OS Does not know how to reconigze the device even when the drivers are made for Vista. It keeps saying Drivers not found. Thanks microsoft for making one of the dumbest and 5hittest OS on the market today. I even tried to install Windows XP only to find out that HP blocked out any window OS below Vista.
Gosh I hate this freakin Laptop and I can't return it too since I need it for school.

[Celiracer18]

From what I've seen and experienced with Vista is that 95% of the "problems/errors" are completely PEBKAC. Ive been running it for what seems like an eternity now with ZERO real problems. I'm running it on my home server and ran it for over 2000 hours completely stable. It's the lack of interest in the actual use of a computer now that has given Vista the bad stigma that it has. about 99% of the users dont even know why vista "uses" the amount of ram that it does. Which brings me to the point of people putting it on old/wimpy machines that shouldnt be running it.

IMO Vista is great but people are too damn lazy to work things out like they did in XP. Anyways enough with my banter, all of the vista haters will get what they want when they release the reshelled version also named windows 7. (okay not really reshelled but basically the same thing, I mean even on the early versions of 7 they still had vista written everywhere)

[forkee]

(okay not really reshelled but basically the same thing, I mean even on the early versions of 7 they still had vista written everywhere)

exactly. thats why i was disappointed. they had completely copy and pasted the help files from vista straight to 7 without even changing a word. it literally had vista written all over.

whether or not the difference is night and day, its the same OS but with a different look and a few tweaks. you want night and day, compare vista to XP. at least thats a total rewrite.

http://i.gizmodo.com/5138232/windows-xp-vi...ore-performance

The interesting bit is that, using the testing workloads they came up with, they were able to find that Vista and 7 were almost exactly the same, barring some tweaks, and very different from XP under the hood.

This post has been edited by forkee: Jan 25, 2009 - 11:08 AM