Is Vista really that problematic for people to migrate? I use Mac at work and home so I can't say... But it must be a pain since people want to stick with XP (which is a pretty solid OS)
Then again I was running Win95 on my PC up until 2002 when I switched to Mac.
no...vista is amazing once you have it! people just won't try it cause other tards are saying it's bad and they haven't even tried it! it's really annoying to hear people complain about vista....i'm writing this on a vista machine and it's the first one i've ever built. i have not had one problem with vista finding drivers,programs, or anything else to be honest. if people bash vista then that just means they haven't tried it or didn't even have the right hardware
I had used Vista on my laptop (the one I'm using right now) and it honestly did cause a lot of problems. It was fairly slow (even with a 1.8 Ghz dual-core processor and 2 GB of RAM) and the process for the taskbar crashed at least 5 times per day. The weird thing is, it was at least usable before I installed SP1, but after I installed it everything got really buggy.
I'm running vista on a 2.2 GHz centrino duo with 2 gigs of ram.... runs fine, except that the battery life is shot to hell (tablet PC). So, when I buy a new desktop I'll put Vista on it, but I'm going back to XP on this because losing half my battery life just does not cut it. But I want to make it clear, performance wise Vista works like a charm... power efficiency however, not so much.
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Is Vista really that problematic for people to migrate? I use Mac at work and home so I can't say... But it must be a pain since people want to stick with XP (which is a pretty solid OS)
Then again I was running Win95 on my PC up until 2002 when I switched to Mac.
no...vista is amazing once you have it! people just won't try it cause other tards are saying it's bad and they haven't even tried it! it's really annoying to hear people complain about vista....i'm writing this on a vista machine and it's the first one i've ever built. i have not had one problem with vista finding drivers,programs, or anything else to be honest. if people bash vista then that just means they haven't tried it or didn't even have the right hardware
I had used Vista on my laptop (the one I'm using right now) and it honestly did cause a lot of problems. It was fairly slow (even with a 1.8 Ghz dual-core processor and 2 GB of RAM) and the process for the taskbar crashed at least 5 times per day. The weird thing is, it was at least usable before I installed SP1, but after I installed it everything got really buggy.
@knightsray:
Sure, it "works okay" for you. I mean like, it works, right?
Now, imagine it working more faster, with what loss? Motion blur when you move the window.
Yes, I'm sticking with XP.
I'm running vista on a 2.2 GHz centrino duo with 2 gigs of ram.... runs fine, except that the battery life is shot to hell (tablet PC). So, when I buy a new desktop I'll put Vista on it, but I'm going back to XP on this because losing half my battery life just does not cut it. But I want to make it clear, performance wise Vista works like a charm... power efficiency however, not so much.