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)

[blu94gt]

Which brings me to the point of people putting it on old/wimpy machines that shouldnt be running it.

Amen brother. Pretty much everyone I've talked to that complains about Vista, when I go to their computer to help them out it turns out they've got some POS machine that they expect to run everything perfectly.

Even a lot of these new laptops and pre-built computers being sold with Vista on them aren't powerful enough to run the operating system at full capacity: I.E. with the aero interface, etc, much less expect to be able to run games well. Hell the computer I built only scores 5.0/5.9 on the little Vista test scale, but runs 64-bit Vista with no problems.

[95CelicaST]

Which brings me to the point of people putting it on old/wimpy machines that shouldnt be running it.

Amen brother. Pretty much everyone I've talked to that complains about Vista, when I go to their computer to help them out it turns out they've got some POS machine that they expect to run everything perfectly.

Even a lot of these new laptops and pre-built computers being sold with Vista on them aren't powerful enough to run the operating system at full capacity: I.E. with the aero interface, etc, much less expect to be able to run games well. Hell the computer I built only scores 5.0/5.9 on the little Vista test scale, but runs 64-bit Vista with no problems.

Your average joe-computer-user doesnt want to buy a high end gaming system. The average user wants to walk in to a store, pick a computer, and have it work well. Vista isn't an appropriate OS to have for those systems, but you dont have a choice. The great thing with XP is that it runs on next to nothing. Vista essentially requires that you have a high end expensive system to function decently. Hell, my old work dropped 3K on a system to monitor our switches (needed to spend our budget). We ran vista 32 and 64 bit and they both scored terrible.... on a xeon processor and 6gb of DDR3 RAM.


My 1.6ghz atom netbook runs 7 flawlessly, and scores high on the scale as well.