eliya wrote:I always find myself working with the classic theme.

Me too. It looks like Server 2003 in "Classic" mode and is bearable.

MSFT got the Mac OS all wrong. Just because Vista is "lickable" does not make it a contender for OS X. Turn off the Aero. Ugh.

Vista is a bloated CRAP. I am using it at work as a "tester" and it ironically runs better on my Mac hardware via Parallels than it does on a brand new T60 IBM Thinkpad!!

The interface is ugly and dumb, the false "cry wolf" security protocol of "lets ask the end user the same question repeatedly until the message is simply ignored" is completely retarded. Doesn't Microsoft have THE BEST UI Engineers and Human-Interface designers? Well, get new ones, because they are idiots.

And Office 2007, holy stinkpyle. What a log. All they did was change the navigation, make it more confusing, slower, and add XML capability (XML whos only real intention is to keep out non-MSFT products that can't handle .docX and '07 .xls files..)

Slow as mole-asses too unless you have 2GB of RAM and a processor that's no older than six months to a year old.

CRAP

stewie wrote:at home I mostly play PC games

You should check out Cedega.

andyman wrote:

stewie wrote:at home I mostly play PC games

You should check out Cedega.

I most certainly freakin' will. Nice, thanks!

stewie wrote:My wife bought a nice, high-spec laptop recently. Vista came pre-loaded.

This laptop, while powerful, can barely handle this Vista bullshit.

Slow, annoying and wasteful. You will find yourself installing XP instead after about 5 minutes.

I've had the exact same experience. It's a piece of shit. You need a mainframe to run this bloatware.

so my brand new 2gig ram dual core Vista machine crashed to BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH again last night..

not counting but thats about 30 crashes for a PC a few months old w/ barely anything on it.

Ive noticed it crashes when

switching users
trying to bring up task manager

whats really shitty is bringing up task manager doesnt just bring up task manager, unless i am doing it wrong, ctl/alt/delete on every PC ive ever used allows me to bring up task manager from a simple click.

on my vista machine it brings me to the switch user screen, and thats when it crashes...

shitty shitty slow fucking fat OS full of nonsense

On the other hand my PC runs Bioshock at 1440p out of the box no bubbles no troubles

myself wrote:I'm seeing flashing "I'm online" notification under nicknames of PRFers who happen to be online. Is this a new feature on PRF or a doing of Windows Vista (btw, for the love of God, don't spend a penny on this shit, even if all the laptops in the store have it. Hours of turning things off to get it work a bit faster and to make it look and behave more like XP/2000 guaranteed. CRAP. Oh yeah, this new graphic engine is the first thing to turn off, even on a new computer. CRAP again. I still haven't found "my network" so I'm accessing other computers in the network by their IP's. Did I mention it's CRAP?)

And what was the point with visually changing all the menus? Even if the content is the same, you will spend minutes getting where's what. Confusing and annoying everyone? Mission accomplished. CRAP.


Brand new Aero interface which lets you scroll through blue screens, red screens,black screens, security warnings and endless yes or no confirmations, all in eye popping 3D! So true.

It's all bullshit. Both Mac and Win OS's suck and fuck up.
I have a G5 and a home built PC and use them both equally and get frustrated with both of them. No computer is a perfect machine and all that said... I will not touch Vista for another 2 years at least.

Still no problems with Vista.

None at all.

And I love complaining about stuff.

It's what I do really well.

Nothing bad.

Lots of good things though.

Sorry.

Vista = Not Crap at all.

tommydski wrote:It's NOT CRAP because in a year or so from now it will be stable. Machines will be powerful enough to run it and there will have been a service pack or two.

Microsoft's aggressive methods of forcing people to the new OS are pretty CRAP though.

tommydski wrote:Right, these problems were there with XP for the first year or so too. Once they had been hammered out, it was a vast improvement over 98 or ME. I'm wary of calling this WORST OS EVARRR when I know it's not even going to be an issue if I bump this thread a few months down the line.

Granted, in an ideal world this shit would never happen.

tommydski wrote:Macs are so expensive that I dont really think it's fair to compare them at all. They cost a lot of money because they are very good. Hooray for Apple and their excellent machines which cost a lot of money!

Cheap as fuck PCs that I can add to here and there when I have the money are the realistic platform for me and so many other people. We are used to being perpetually shat upon by Microsoft. We accept it is part of the deal of being a PC user. If anyone wants to send me a Mac, that is absolutely okay with me.

In the mean-time I will be on my cheap as fuck PC, dilligently waiting for Vista SP1.

You obviously don't know a hell of a lot about Vista.

I use it every day.

Right now for example.

For me, Not Crap.

For you, vote whatever you feel.

For example - Crap!

Or indeed - Not Crap!

But please don't tell me what I know about an OS I use every day.