Yeah I ahve been running Vista for a year now, first RC1, now Home Premium and I have had NO issues with any hardware or software I have thrown at Vista. All my XP divers worked or I was able to find Vista drivers. I agree with r3loaded, what kind of systems are these people trying to run that they are hiving all these issues?
you guys keep spouting about people complaining about compatibility issues and I haven't seen but a post or two doing such. Most are complaining about how cloogy and difficult it is to use. Many things that were a single click in XP now take two or more clicks to do or are buried with no simple intuition as to where to locate them.
also at how the increased system requirements prevent most systems that were perfectly viable and still are under XP. You may get vista to install upon them but they will run like a dog.
You say that items are hard to find? Try being a NEW computer user who has no preconceived notions about where something should be. When I was setting up Vista, I was also finding it hard to locate items because of the changed menus/locations, but once I realized that I found the items where a NOVICE computer user (i.e.- First time computer user... your mother, grandparents, etc...) would look for them I discovered that they were actually easier to find.
As for drivers, that is not MS's fault. Example: I can't run Compiz Fusion/Beryl on my computer with a brand new $200 ATI graphics card. Why? ATI's Linux drivers suck. And I don't hear anyone complaining about how Linux needs to make drivers to support ATI graphics cards. No, all ire is directed at ATI as it should be.
But its "cool" to hate MS and say everything is their fault. I remember when XP came out... There were the exact same problems but there weren't so many people on the internet to complain loudly and proclaim the greatness of Apple (Disclaimer: I have a MacBook Pro as well as a Vista desktop and both have their pros and cons)
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Yeah I ahve been running Vista for a year now, first RC1, now Home Premium and I have had NO issues with any hardware or software I have thrown at Vista. All my XP divers worked or I was able to find Vista drivers. I agree with r3loaded, what kind of systems are these people trying to run that they are hiving all these issues?
you guys keep spouting about people complaining about compatibility issues and I haven't seen but a post or two doing such. Most are complaining about how cloogy and difficult it is to use. Many things that were a single click in XP now take two or more clicks to do or are buried with no simple intuition as to where to locate them.
also at how the increased system requirements prevent most systems that were perfectly viable and still are under XP. You may get vista to install upon them but they will run like a dog.
You say that items are hard to find?
Try being a NEW computer user who has no preconceived notions about where something should be.
When I was setting up Vista, I was also finding it hard to locate items because of the changed menus/locations, but once I realized that I found the items where a NOVICE computer user (i.e.- First time computer user... your mother, grandparents, etc...) would look for them I discovered that they were actually easier to find.
As for drivers, that is not MS's fault. Example: I can't run Compiz Fusion/Beryl on my computer with a brand new $200 ATI graphics card. Why? ATI's Linux drivers suck. And I don't hear anyone complaining about how Linux needs to make drivers to support ATI graphics cards. No, all ire is directed at ATI as it should be.
But its "cool" to hate MS and say everything is their fault. I remember when XP came out... There were the exact same problems but there weren't so many people on the internet to complain loudly and proclaim the greatness of Apple (Disclaimer: I have a MacBook Pro as well as a Vista desktop and both have their pros and cons)