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| Thread ID: 77596 | 2007-03-15 05:46:00 | How smooth have you found the transition to Windows Vista? | rogerp (6864) | PC World Chat |
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| 533172 | 2007-03-25 01:53:00 | LOL. | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 533173 | 2007-03-25 03:05:00 | For me it would be Vista Ultimate and it will have to be after service pack 2. On a seperate computer,(so if anything goes wrong/or things dont work that I want to work I can use Xp Pro on my other computer) And when they have stopped making good games for me to play on XP Pro.(And there is heaps of DX 10 must have games and they are only work on Vista,and not for XP Pro. Plus it costs too much for the retail version which is what I would want to get. Or it might be I have spent enough money on computers and would rather spend it on holidays/travel to other countries. Or spend the money on other general living expenses. :2cents: |
memphis (2869) | ||
| 533174 | 2007-03-25 07:27:00 | At least when Windows ME isn't crashing, it's actually usable. Vista will just nag you constantly that you don't have permission to do whatever it is you want, and then the application will crash anyway because it's not compatible. Vista is what you get when you take a normal OS and stick it on "Pimp my ride" |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 533175 | 2007-03-25 07:42:00 | I never touched it while it was pre-RTM but got my hands on a free copy a few weeks ago and have been playing around with it, initially through VPC (worked relatively well sans aero glass etc, of course) and last week re-partitioned and installed to dual boot (only gave it 20GB). I don't find it half bad but there are the buggy bits like sleep and shutdown dont work properly. I'll be using XP for my primary for a while yet, but I don't find Vista to be the piece of **** it's been made out to be. That said, I'm in the process of Beryl-fying a recent Ubuntu install, can't wait to see how it goes. |
sal (67) | ||
| 533176 | 2007-03-25 08:46:00 | but I don't find Vista to be the piece of **** it's been made out to be. From what I have seen on the in store Vista demos that are loaded on some display machines, the demo itself is very jerky which shows a lack of attention to detail in the design of the UI. While the desktop is colourful and very glossy personally I find it also comes across as being unnecessarily busy and somewhat cluttered with regards to the menu design. I think it is this impression among others that have resulted in numerous bad reviews around the world especially considering it is being compared to the current Mac GUI of which is is pretty much a poor attempt of a direct copy. Yes, Vista and the applications contained in it do work, but after 5 years of development I would have expected them to work allot better especially if the recent Gadget channel thread that I posted was anything to go by. Just my :2cents: |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 533177 | 2007-03-25 09:17:00 | yeah.. I guess Vista isn't too bad, but It could be so much better | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 533178 | 2007-03-25 10:12:00 | winmacguy: I totally agree with some of your points. I too think the GUI is too busy in some respects. The context bar especially in Vista windows is too styled and busy. I use OS X daily at work as a developer and definitely see many parallels in Vista. Otherwise, moving around inside Vista, in some places its annoying having to move through several windows to set an option. About OS X, I hope finder gets a big face lift in 10.5, it lacks alot and is a little too plain - not in looks but functionality wise. A path please? The way its done in Vista isn't too bad either... But Ubuntu, it's done my head in and I'm doing a re-install. Holy crap it's hard to get Beryl going solid. I actually had it going but after a system update within Ubuntu, somethings changed (obviously) and now Beryl-ness is gone :( |
sal (67) | ||
| 533179 | 2007-03-25 11:16:00 | Comparison pre build screen shots here www.thinksecret.com |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
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