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- luke16, on 03/23/2008, -131/+557Meh, im happy with it, i've had no problems.
- WriterSD, on 03/23/2008, -110/+377I love Vista. Haven't had any problems with it. Maybe because my computer's new?
- HCviolence, on 03/23/2008, -54/+236Vista works fine for me
--me, 5 years from now - EnderMB, on 03/23/2008, -72/+250What a crock of *****. Many users and commenting users on Digg have claimed happiness with Vista, aside from a few issues like speed. I have no problems whatsoever with Vista and there are at least three above me using Vista happily. All I see is a Apple/Linux fanboy attempt to give Vista a bad press to get users to convert. All I ever hear on Digg is 'Vista is broken!', yet no real evidence to back it up.
I believe these rumours should be put to rest and users should stop trying to affect a customers choice in Operating Systems. - ZippyV, on 03/23/2008, -24/+18320 minutes shutdown time is certainly not what other Vista users are undergoing. Remove all the crapware dude and for your webcam: just install the xp drivers.
- Kordras, on 03/23/2008, -43/+197Same here, I really don't know what all the fuss is about. After all the crap I heard on the net, I was really afraid of upgrading, but after I did I was pleasantly surprised.
- chazuk, on 03/23/2008, -60/+171"Microsoft should toss Vista in the trash, as the company did with Windows Millennium eight years ago, then issue a Windows XP Second Edition (as it did with Windows 98 eight years ago)"
98 SE came out after Windows Millennium? ***** off you *****. http://www.fineonline.com/windows_history.php
Wanker wants to get his facts straight before trying to tell anyone *****..... - Senn, on 03/23/2008, -34/+142Even if Microsoft wanted to throw Vista out, it's not like that is an option now. What would go in its place?
- Hortnon, on 03/23/2008, -21/+119No problems here. Except that Creative blows at making drivers.
- 4ndr3wk, on 03/23/2008, -26/+120< insert comment about my amazing computer not running vista well even though i used it for a hour max>
- chazuk, on 03/23/2008, -15/+104I was running Vista on a quite high spec PC but I fancied going back to Apple now and I now dual boot Vista (whis is a fine OS) and Leopard.
Vista has given me no troubles (both 32 and 64 bit versions) and I personally like it as an OS. - GorGenator, on 03/23/2008, -15/+98I've never had a vista shutdown time of over 10 seconds. yes... seconds. So either your computer isn't almost new or you're obviously ***** something up profoundly. My computer is still running a Pentium 4 and everything, including games, runs faster on Vista.
Edit: I replied to the right level of the comment tree but for some reason it decided to put it in the next level. - twtmc, on 03/23/2008, -22/+95XP SP3
- jacobu9, on 03/23/2008, -6/+69$5,000-$10,000‽, Wtf are you buying, a top of the line Xserve?
- olenick, on 03/23/2008, -184/+232Twenty minute shutdown times on my almost new computer w/ a fast chip and 2GB RAM. Substantial delays for basic file navigation as a green bar snakes across the top of the screen. I've had not one but two entire presentations blown waiting for Vista to start-up: I now bring an older computer for presentations. Incompatibility with common devices (like I needed a new webcam!?). Lack of reasonable support options: for example, pay Lenovo to explain why their computer and dock have never worked properly out of the box, or pay $75 -- after paying something $400 for Vista "Ultimate" -- for a disk to roll back to XP. And rather than watching MS apologize and scramble to fix this mess they're lobbying Washington for more corporate welfare -- H1B's to drive down wages -- like that will fix Vista. I purchased Vista Ultimate and the only thing ultimate about it is that it's the ultimate disaster. If Adobe's tools worked on Ubuntu I'd upgrade to that; until then I'll just stew and steam, and do my best to avoid anything from MS. I've been ripped-off, and so has every other Vista buyer: we're owed an apology and a refund.
- oriondr, on 03/23/2008, -5/+52Me either, the only issues I had with it were fixed in SP1, and that was slow unzipping & slow file copying.
- InorganicMatter, on 03/23/2008, -35/+80It's been fine since SP1.
But that's OK, no logic allowed on Digg. Bury your head in the sand and keep worshiping the Hardy Heron. - gldfshnpcklejar, on 03/23/2008, -15/+59"***** off you *****." lol. You certainly feel strongly about the history of windows and a crappy, practically unknown blogger's opinion. The internet is serious business though amirite.
- Phocion55, on 03/23/2008, -25/+66"aside from a few issues like speed"
Well, that was the deal-breaker for me right there. - Ouze, on 03/23/2008, -9/+48in 2001, a informal poll showed 50% of respondents thought the same about XP, and in 5 or 6, years, they'll be pining for the glory days of Vista vs upgrading to Windows 7 or whatever.
http://www.news.com/2009-1001-274436.html - debuggercll, on 03/23/2008, -2/+38Or you could go amish and this wouldn't be an issue.
- xpose, on 03/23/2008, -10/+44Few problems here and I've been using it for over a year. It's one of those things where people say Vista sucks without really know why. Same reason why people say Mac's suck without ever actually using it. Mindless zombies.
- scy1192, on 03/23/2008, -5/+38I'm running vista on celeron, and games run admittedly slower, but the actual OS is still more than useable. Shutdown times range from 10 to 20 seonds, and startup is about a minute
- inactive, on 03/23/2008, -4/+37"Vista ran like ***** on my Pentium 3 1000MHz with 256MB RAM. Then i bought a Quad Core PC with a buttload of RAM, now it runs good!!!"
Really??
Who would have thought. - houndeyex, on 03/23/2008, -14/+43...with a new style of hourglass.
- tsunami643, on 03/23/2008, -18/+47That would be because all the people who hate on Vista have never used it and/or are not patient.
- computershack, on 03/23/2008, -8/+36If you're having 20 minute shutdown times, you wanna find out what's going wrong. My 18 month old laptop boots Vista in under 30 seconds and shutsdown in a little over 20.
- narutometal, on 03/23/2008, -22/+50Vista is definitely a disappointment, but it's not a disaster. It's definitely an improvement over XP, and I've had no problems so far, but compare it to OS X and I really can't stand up for Vista anymore.
- BobbyMC, on 07/21/2008, -8/+35Please, that's disrespectful to the many great things about Vista. The Start Menu alone is hugely improved, with the indexing making navigating programs ridiculously easy. If you press the start button and start typing a few letters of what you want, in seconds the icon will be right there.
Also, Vista actually makes the proprietary folders useful. By being placed by default on the start menu they are much more immediately accessible, and each has a unique hard to miss icon rather than them being generic folders in an awkward file path.
Not to mention all the ***** like rewriting every error message to actually make sense, and making you able to ACTUALLY end a corrupt task. Vista is a complete rewrite of Windows that works fine for the most part aside from being not as speedily optimized as XP is now.
Vista is infinitely better than XP, but Digg is also filled with an infinite number of whiny bitches who will find a reason to hate ANYTHING. - Insanitation, on 03/23/2008, -7/+33And what is it exactly that they are "disallowing" us to do?
- areohbe, on 03/23/2008, -31/+57no, it's really not that bad... stop exaggerating
- Cajaks2, on 03/23/2008, -32/+57Eh vista worked pretty well for me, boots and shutdown is fast
- coheedcollapse, on 03/23/2008, -3/+28I spent $500 and built my own computer. Got Vista Ultimate for $20 from my school. I'm still not having these problems. Also, anyone who digs this guy up is a complete idiot that hasn't touched Vista in their lives. 20 MINUTE shut down times? Dear god, my mom's crapware bloated computer doesn't even take that long.
My copy of Vista runs fine. I have no idea how others are having so much trouble. - Ouze, on 03/23/2008, -18/+42thank you steve jobs
- Shiner6, on 03/23/2008, -6/+29Yea who likes the iPhone. What a failure that was.
- cquinnd, on 03/23/2008, -5/+27such as?
- Derelict267, on 03/23/2008, -9/+31SP 1 fixes that. I've also had no problems at all with Vista, infact it restarts and starts up faster than my machine did on XP.
- inactive, on 03/23/2008, -11/+31You can get a Mac Mini for about $600 and it will use the monitor, keyboard and mouse that you already have.
- Redforeva, on 03/23/2008, -17/+37Throw away the memory/CPU hogging processes and its all good.
3GB of ram and I'm having startup times the same compared to a computer with 256mb of ram using XP. - dagr8tim, on 03/23/2008, -14/+34I'm about 24 hours into my grand Vista adventure. So far, it doesn't seem so bad. I installed Ultimate on my year and a half old compaq. I upgraded the ram from 1 gig to 3, and the HD from a 40 gig 4200 RPM to a 120 gig 5400 RPM. Proc is a sempron 3400 1.8 ghz. I have all my routine software installled reinstalled and boot up is faster with Vista than my year old installation of XP.
- sendmoney2me, on 03/23/2008, -25/+45Vista works fine if you have the specs for it and the knowledge of how to use it.
- kimcheefreak17, on 03/23/2008, -6/+25Dugg for interrobang.
- MaxPayne3476, on 03/23/2008, -2/+21I was actually looking to buy a car, but I didn't want to spend $350,000 for just a car? You know what I mean?
- oriondr, on 03/23/2008, -3/+20Vista is built to utilize all the ram in your system at once. That's how it works, it was done that way intentionally - it improves performance of commonly used applications.
- carpespasm, on 03/23/2008, -6/+22if they had a standalone DX10 there wouldn't be any reason to not do that.
- Ouze, on 03/23/2008, -1/+17if Apple released it's OS away from it's hardware you'd be amazed at how quickly you'd realize why apple has chosen not to do that. The reliablility that comes from Macs is from developing for and supporting a small and well known pool of hardware, which they have been doing a long time and are good at. Once you blow up that pool, you get Windows, with all of it's inherent problems and none of it's bonuses (ie i don't see MS releasing DirectX for OSX, even if it ran on PCs)
- inactive, on 03/23/2008, -7/+23I am running a celeron coroe-l 1.6ghz, onboard video, and 1 gig of ddr2 667mhz memory. My vista home premium boots and shuts down in under 15 seconds.
You are either:
1. a liar
2. blind
3. An incompetent computer user who has allowed your computer to get a very bad virus, while i have never gotten a single virus on my vista machine using vista's firewall, vista's spyware remover, and a free antivirus.
If I had to guess it's a toss up between 1 and 3. - EmperorAwesome, on 03/23/2008, -2/+18Learn how to configure a damned system rather than leaving it alone once its built and the os disc has done its thing. I musta spent a week or more finding different ways of improving vista performance. I didn't think I could facepalm any harder than I did when I saw this headline in the rss feed, but reading your comment nearly shattered my left eye socket.
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