should i switch to Vista?

Another freaking OS.... they're morons.

I used 2000 until only a couple of years ago when I upgraded to XP. I will leave it a while before I upgrade to Vista (despite the fact that members of my household are on the bill gates payrole and we already have the software).
Why?
Exactly because of what Spartan said: New OSes needs some time to get the bugs straightened out. Wait until a couple of Service Packs are released.

As for those touting an upgrade to Linux. I have been using linux for 3 years now, and I can say that while in some areas linux is far superior to windows. In other areas it is far behind. If you think it was hard trying to setup wi-fi on Vistra try it on Fedora.
I have got to a point where I have to have both OS's installed because niether will do what I want it to do.

MacOS may be a solution. As its a unix distrib pushed by a major company.

Originally posted by Menumorut I think you can set Vista to not ask all that permissions (I was not interested to do that yet). Most of the programs rules on Vista well. Vista is a step forward, like Windows was when appeared, the fact some programs are not working is a small sacrifice. I tried XP after using Vista many months and clearly XP is much slower.

Are you on Bill Gates's payroll Menumorut?

I'm unable to use Solidworks on Vista.  I basically do all my work in Solidworks.  Other people in my company sometimes do manage to use Solidworks on Vista, but then they sometimes can't run AutoCAD on Vista.  Other times we all get random error messages telling us that no printer drivers have been installed and so nothing can print.  Those aren't "small sacrifices."   There's a reason why many workstations and business computers are still shipping with XP pro even though Vista business has been available for 2 years.  Oh and most current games run just as fast on XP as on Vista, usually faster on XP because the drivers for it have been optimized so much over the years.  XP's still faster in business apps too.  Here's a sample article on it http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/12/04/vista_vs_xp_tests/

I'm sure Vista will eventually improve and do things XP could never do but right now it's reminding me of when Windows 98 came out.  It was highly touted and had prettier menus and cooler system tools than 95 but it was buggy and bloated and didn't really hit its stride until the SE release.  

I'm forced to use Vista at work and it's total garbage.  Blue screen of death is replaced by annoying repetitive prompts of "allow or deny" that freeze your computer and make you think that you're doing something wrong when all you're doing is trying to install updates.  Many programs have to be run in "administrator" mode through a separate menu even if you have an admin account on the computer.  Other programs won't run at all even though Microsoft says they're compatible with Vista.  I'm basically using a virtual installation of XP half the time to be able to use those programs. 

Oh yes, you can play crysis and the windows are translucent and you can have cooler wallpapers and screensavers.  But if you plan on using your computer for work, stay away from Vista.  It's a huge step backwards from XP in terms of productivity. 

It seems to me that unless you use your OS for networking and some other related uses, Vista is not really an option. For Christ's sake, why do you need an extra bloody 512 Meg of Ram to run the fancy skins and stuff when you can actually just hack your machine to run a vista theme anyway?

My opinion is that Vista is running faster and is having not bug problems like XP.

In hardware-solicitating games is also faster than XP and the interface is very nice.


Also, it seems that you haven't setted the BIOS, is not becoming slower like XP is doing ( I don't know to set the BIOS, I'm lazy to learn things I don't like).

I would never turn to XP.

Edited by Menumorut - 22-Dec-2007 at 18:19

Me old man bought a new laptop with Vista and asked me to set up his Wifi. As far as I'm concerned you can throw vista in the bin.

Yeah I've alrdy seen a couple of new games that require 1gb of Ram for XP but 2gb for Vista....wtf

Isn't that the new office, rather than vista?

[I use OpenOffice anyway]

IN terms of games you have major issues. Supposedly it's better, and it does do a few things well. However, it has major issues with its sound at the moment that completely stuff over many games including Bioshock, lots of Source games and more. Installing Medieval 2 Total War: Kingdoms is a real bitch too.