blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com — Shop manager Aaron Kaplan said they were prompted to put it up because so many people were having problems with Windows Vista, including compatibility issues with older software and trouble adjusting to the interface.
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drgizmondoJan 31, 2008
ah where did Microsoft go wrong, did Microsoft go wrong. maybe i should be asking why people have the perception of vista that they have. for me personally i love vista, its stable more secure, has some good features and excellent compatibility. I know people say that it runs slower, and there right it does - if your trying to run it of a 3 year old system. Oh and let me pop some peoples fantasy about XP, when it was released IT ran slower than 98 IF you ran it on 98 hardware. I don't know about you guys but when xp came out I remember going around PC shops with the Hardware Compatibility List for XP as most of the stuff i had didn't work with XP. And this brings me on to DX10, many people say that DX10 is not worth the extra overhead, and you know what they may be right, but again when ever there is a new DX version it runs s**t at first. I f you look at the first DX10 games that came out, non of them were native DX10 game - they were patched to an inch of their life to run DX10. once the second and third gen of DX10 games come out all will be sweet. Oh and just for you Apple and *nix users out there I don't see you running DX10 games.
amdnvidiaatiFeb 1, 2008
Hell I;ve had Vista for the last 4 months running solid and doing all my gaming on it. 64bit with 4GB of RAM ftw. I actually get the same or better fps as when I was using XP. So I don't care... and its more stable!
jakem1Feb 1, 2008
XP does suffer this fate. My Fujitsu P1610 came loaded with XP and a huge amount of crapware and it took longer to boot and was slower to run than with a clean Vista installation.
djgreedoFeb 1, 2008
>>>OK, what the f**k? You have to ENABLE UAC to get that done, while you basically have to DISABLE UAC to get anything ELSE done. Do I >>>understand this properly? No, you don't. I'm not even going to bother explaining because you clearly don't know anything about UAC.I've personally not encountered the problem described.>>>Vista is like an Alpha build of an OS. The ONE user at my company who asked to have it left on his new PC (new Core 2 ThinkPad with 2GB of >>>RAM), he is getting sick and tired of the bulls**t. The UAC popups that come up for EVERYTHING...after of course lagging for a few seconds, or >>>minutes. So if it were my machine I'd disable that, but according to what the parent said, i'd have to remember to re-enable the infernal UAC to add >>>printers.UAC should not pop up regularly unless the software you are using is 'breaching' Windows software guidelines. UAC can be turned off, but then dumb users are not protected against spyware as much. You do not need to have UAC on to install a printer.>>>Tell me this, Vista-lovers. When I'm adding a network printer, why for the sake of all that is holy do I have to choose "LOCAL PRINTER" instead of >>>"NETWORK PRINTER"???? That is the definition of asinine...and the same old crap as in XP. When I heard what a biiiiiig rewrite Longhorn was >>>supposed to be, that's the kind of crap that I was hoping they'd fix. The blatant BUGS. But no.No idea. I don't have this issue and have never encountered it.>>>And what the hell did they do to what used to be "Network Connections" in XP??? The "Network and Sharing Center" is the only net-related >>>control panel I can see, so i have to launch that and THEN click some little link on the left to get to the REAL Network Connections window. All this >>>just to try to configure a network adapter. No offense to Mac haters, but on my Mac I join a wireless network in two clicks. TWO! Please, >>>Vista-defenders, please write the steps to join a wireless network in Vista. Thanks. Please number them, you know, from 1 to like, 15 or >>>whatever.Wow...you didn't try very hard to join a wireless network did you?I just click the wireless icon in my taskbar and select 'connect or disconnect' and choose the network I want from the list of visible networks. Then a few seconds later I'm connected. Generally it will connect automatically as I can set which networks to connect to and in what priority.
killpenguinFeb 1, 2008
You're the reason why people hate vista.
kloroformdFeb 2, 2008
I'M BASING MY OPINION ON THE PERFORMANCE OF A FRIEND'S eMACHINES ATHLON X2 SYSTEM WITH 1GB RAM. Clean install, no junkware. Runs like hell.
djbon2112Feb 3, 2008
DX10 is not "better" than OpenGL, it just has a higher (possible; it has yet to be used) image quality. OpenGL 3.0 is the spec that's on par with DX10 from the ground up. However, as init100 said you can simply use extensions to OpenGL 2 to get the same IQ.
feldonFeb 8, 2008
I made Vista work on my wife's computer, after striping it down to classic setting taking out all the effects and removing all the indexing files and turned off power saving and a zoo of other things.moral of the story Install Linux
se1zureFeb 16, 2008
alienware?
nilofcMay 20, 2008
I use Vista because it's great for my tablet PC. If you don't like Vista, then don't install one. If you don't like Windows, fine. Don't install one.If you love your Linux or Macs....fine too. Go look for your thread and post in there on how you really love Macs and Linuxes. End of story. Everybody happy?What's the moral of the story? This is a thread for Vista-related issues....
foster90May 24, 2008
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stottyJul 5, 2008
Um, my point was how daft it is that people put down Vista because of currently bad driver support, something that a LOT of Linux zealots are currently doing. Perhaps the sarcasm in my last statement went over your head?