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- hassanchop13, on 02/19/2008, -43/+304to be honest, the biggest complaint i hear from friends on vista is that it doesnt run games as well as XP. and yet, that would make it the 2nd best OS for games behind just xp....
the vista hating is getting old. i dont have it, dont plan on getting it anytime soon, but its not the antichrist either. - Darkhacker, on 02/19/2008, -38/+292In one small step for man, one giant leap for digg-kind, I'll be the first to say that I've never used Vista, so I can't comment on it. Sometimes listening to Digg users on Vista is like listening to a virgin's advice on sex.
- tcardone05, on 02/19/2008, -62/+234Apparently hasn't actually used Vista.
- crackah, on 02/19/2008, -80/+224Actually Vista is quite good. Havent had as many issues with it as I had with XP...
- dsenman, on 02/19/2008, -16/+138Oh shut up. I have CentOS, Leopard and Vista boxes all in the same room here - and guess what, they all equally suck. They have all crashed, and they have all had compatibility problems. (although Linux is free...)
- etherreal, on 02/19/2008, -49/+151I digg Vista personally....
- Computer_Kid, on 02/19/2008, -22/+112Blue screens, red screens, black screens! All in 3D!
I'm buying all six versions! - Chainheart, on 02/19/2008, -21/+94The only time I crash in Vista is when I overclock my RAM timings too tight..
- blinktude, on 02/19/2008, -46/+115I can understand why people are criticizing Vista and other microsoft OSs but if they knew how difficult it is to code millions of lines OS, they wouldn't be hating it as much.
Vista is quite of an achievement IMHO... - getoffmybridge, on 05/05/2009, -11/+76Omg I'm going to repeat a line from the youtube clip I've just seen!!!
- ToadLeg, on 02/19/2008, -5/+60THIS VIDEO IS A BLATANT COPY.
I'm not sure if it's the original (I think it might be after 30 seconds of googling), but an earlier, much better version is here: http://www.blimptv.net/mostpopularV1.html
Looks like fridaypage.com just removed the blimptv intro, then copied the rest and put their own watermark on it.
bury - FutureGuy, on 02/19/2008, -25/+79yawn, this is kind of getting old and childish. Vids like this makes the linux crown look like a bunch of whiny kids with nothing much to do. I guarantee that the whoever made this hasn't yet used Vista, at least not on a PC with enough horse power (no it will not run on your 2 year old PC, get over it). The only real issue I have had with Vista is a couple of the apps I was used to don't work on it, other wise its pretty solid OS and has never crashed in the last one year I have been using it.
- chibimmy, on 02/19/2008, -11/+56It's like hugging a koala. Seriously, am i the only ***** person who doesn't have trouble using vista?
- yuutokun, on 02/19/2008, -18/+63Ron Paul?
- VonBargenJL, on 02/19/2008, -11/+53ya, i got a free ultimate copy (legally) and ive never had problems with it. i run a good gaming rig and have 4 HDDs and the best part is when i had ***** drivers when the 8800s first came out, vista would catch the drivers from crashing and revert to an older 'working' driver until you got a newer upgrade automatically
- markwilcox, on 02/19/2008, -9/+47It runs them great unless you have 1gb ram. You need 2gb to run them well on vista. The new games anyway.
- Hortnon, on 02/19/2008, -5/+40I tried Ubuntu about the same time that I tried Vista. It asked me to elevate to 'root' (or whatever equivelant) at least as many times as Vista asked for the same. How come no one ever mentions that?
- Hindu_Wardrobe, on 02/19/2008, -6/+40You mean a digg user's advice on sex?
- SonicPower, on 02/19/2008, -20/+50This is really stupid.
How come my computer doesn't have any problems with Vista? It's an Inspiron 6000, and never once has crashed or froze on me compared to XP.
Man, Explorer.exe on XP always frozen on me, and I would have to end it all the time, just to get things working again.
Dugg down. - ictharus, on 02/19/2008, -1/+30Claiming that Linux is un-intuitive (true) is taken as a sign of weakness, and no one's willing to admit it.
- R3Dirkulous, on 02/19/2008, -5/+32I had vista for about a week until all the bugs finally annoyed me enough to switch back to xp. But I did the same when XP first came out, and everyone else reacted about the same as theyre now. It's a new product and things take time. You're absolutely right though, people should quit going ***** over this. Give it a year.
- screwzluse, on 02/19/2008, -2/+28I would bet you're in the minority. I've never had Vista crash and have heard many people say the same thing. If it crashes so often, you've probably got a driver issue which you could fix in no time, I'd bet.
- masterofgrond, on 02/19/2008, -3/+29Congratulations on your computer skills.
- JettaMan, on 02/19/2008, -14/+39I'm betting there is absolutely nothing wrong with Vista and these supposed Vista comments are Apple fanboy spam.
- strangewill, on 02/19/2008, -0/+24What the hell are you talking about? ME is as far as Microsoft OSes are concerned, the biggest disaster of Windows for Workgroups technologies, at least Vista is NT based.
- KillPenguin, on 02/19/2008, -21/+43Vista isn't really very bad. It's not really worth upgrading to, but if you get a new computer, you might as well get vista.
- JohnnyKdiggs, on 02/19/2008, -41/+63For all of those who are saying "Vista isn't that bad," you may be right.
But considering it costs $400, it should almost flawless...and plated in ***** gold. - carpespasm, on 02/19/2008, -18/+39I dunno, the endless warnings and total lack of meaningful firewall/anti-virus protection sounds about right.
- etcimon, on 02/19/2008, -5/+25If it works great? I think this is the first quality OS I've run in my life. I never had to reboot because of an application freezing, the Explorer process never crashed, and the blue screen was actually useful in making my HD last a few weeks longer when it made some crazy noise and would freak out on me.
I like how people go for Mac if they want some basic user-friendly usage (photo, mp3, facebook, etc). Power users can go for Vista/Linux, although linux has some poor error-handling, I prefer Vista on that side. For gamers, vista is a definite must-have. I tried playing call-of-duty on a Mac+Vista bootcamp, I almost got a nerval breakdown on my hand, mac has worst keyboard+mouse set ever. It's kind of classy, I can give it that, but ergonomic? - Microdot, on 02/19/2008, -9/+29you look like you are trying to be witty.... cancel or allow?
- dedkittens, on 02/19/2008, -6/+24Well... i have used vista for awhile, and it really isnt all that bad, once you get the system reqs it is semi fast (once you get past booting up) and it is SUPER easy to get rid of the vista pop ups, just spend like 2 minutes in preferences... so yeah...
- Teej, on 02/19/2008, -2/+18Apparently nothing is forcing you to use grammar either.
- duo8675309, on 02/19/2008, -8/+24Ok, here's my 2 cents.
Stop ***** complaining about UAC. If you don't like it, turn it off. Here's a tutorial. Less than 10 clicks. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/disab ...
If your computer can't handle Vista, you need a new computer. Let me repeat myself: if your computer can't handle Vista, YOU NEED A NEW COMPUTER. Vista doesn't take up anywhere near the amount of resources as people make it out to seem. I'm running Vista on a 4 year old computer that I bought for $800. All I needed to do was upgrade my graphics card, which wouldn't play games in the first place.
Know what's running in the background. Pop up msconfig and stop all the services you don't need. Uninstall programs you're not using. Most machines get slow and clunky because users don't clean up after themselves. Yes, you have to keep your computer clean, both physically and metaphorically. Learn how to clean the registry. Download CCleaner. Tidy that ***** up a bit.
I've been using microsoft products for 12 years now, and my computer has crashed only once in those whole 12 years. And it won't crash as long as you know what the ***** you're doing. If you drive your car like a bat out of hell, don't chance the oil when you're supposed to, use the same air filter for ten years, drive til the tank is completely empty, don't get your brakes checked, ect... you won't have a car for long. A computer is no different. 90% of the problems are caused by the user.
And for people telling me to switch to linux, I don't feel like learning a whole new operating system when mine works just fine. My PC crashed for the first time when I switched to linux, and you know why? Because I didn't know what the ***** I was doing. The crash was caused by me. Linux is very stable if you know what you're doing, and so is Vista. I don't bash on linux because I only used it for one day. If you use Vista for one day, you don't have the right to criticise it either.
Having said all that....
I found that video hilarious. :) - Warll, on 02/19/2008, -3/+18Define "cheaper"?
- TridenTBoy, on 02/19/2008, -1/+16You need 2GB of ram to run new games period.
- dn11, on 02/19/2008, -2/+17Yeah, it would have been a lot funnier if they actually knew what was really wrong with Vista and made fun of that instead of making random ***** up. Crashing and blue screen jokes are so 1995.
- Menschmaschine, on 02/19/2008, -0/+14Well hurry up the suspense is killing me!
- cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -2/+16Don't forget it's locked in to a very small amount of machine configurations. Windows supports millions upon millions of hardware configurations.
- pfdogs, on 02/19/2008, -2/+16LOL
- chrispeters, on 02/19/2008, -7/+21Have you ever hugged a koala? They stink, they have sharp claws, and they like to relieve themselves while people are holding them.
- ophello, on 02/19/2008, -1/+15I'd like to see this done for OSX -- And I'm a Fanboy.
- Hortnon, on 02/19/2008, -3/+16SLI is nVidia's ***** driver making, not Vista's fault. I hear Crossfire works great.
- DSizzle, on 02/19/2008, -3/+16A couple of minutes is enough time to make a dumb comment on Digg, but not enough to review a new operating system.
- Hortnon, on 02/19/2008, -12/+25I didn't have any problem at all with my Zune. I installed the software, plugged it in, and was good to go.
Your second problem seems like a problem not many people would have, so probably not applicable to anyone but you. - alilhappything, on 02/19/2008, -0/+13Maybe the computers at shrewdusers job run Vista. Just a thought.
- volacide, on 02/19/2008, -6/+18Please explain to me who everyone else is? OSX is so overrated, I don't know how many times I've used an Apple computer and had them crash on me while doing video editing and stuff. In fact, OSX has crashed on me far many more times than XP or Vista has ever crashed on me.
- markwilcox, on 02/19/2008, -4/+16>>I have 2 gripes:
>>1. Macromedia/Adobe Fireworks is slow as *****
>>2. Pinnacle Studio 10 crashes. constantly.
Not MS's fault though - quomen, on 02/19/2008, -12/+24The video is as bad as the ***** Apple commercial that blatanly LIES about Windows and PCs in general. It's baseless and pretentious *****. Dugg down. Why can't we love Linux, PC, and Mac systems. I've used Ubuntu, Leopard, and Vista and I love them all. I have to say that I prefer Windows for the versatility and support for most applications.
- Teej, on 02/19/2008, -0/+12The original has much cleaner and stereo sound.
- Tyr86, on 02/19/2008, -2/+14Probably an MSDNAA license. That's how I ended up with 4 keys, plus 1 more through school.
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