Which do you prefer, XP or Vista

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I was meaning to ask what "ReadyBoost" was all about, but I looked it up... and laughed.

So Vista is so bloated and pathetically grasping of memory that they have started using memory stick (with awful write speed) as overflow. That's just so funny. It reminds me of my Sinclair QL, that came with a "dongle", because they'd failed to get the OS to fit in the internal ROM.


Yes. And that was totally justified as well. I bought XP just before SP1, which was a mistake. I should have waited longer. Still, it limped along.

It was, eventually, quite the best OS Microsoft have ever managed to produce, and judging from my, and other's, experience of Vista, XP will be looked back on as the best OS that the defunct Microsoft ever managed to produce.

Well I like it.

And, schock, horror, I like Microsoft.

I cant find it in myself to start knocking something just because its fashionable to do so.

I like Microsoft.

I like Windows.

I like Vista.

That's fine. Wait until you find something that you want to do with it, and you have to pay again.

Strange. Again, wait until you have to fight against some "irrelevant" detail, where MS decides what is good for you.

I have no interest in fashion, Never have had.

They need you.

I did to. Mind you, my first experience with Windows was when I was trying to track down a memory problem on Windows 3.1, and just as I got close to reading the solution, in the pretty help files, the memory problem caused a progressive corruption in the fonts, which made the help pages become more and more unreadable, until, just short of where I expected "the answer", I could no longer read them. Naturally, being MS/Windows/proprietary, the help file format was binary and unreadable by any other means... almost. I was quite proficient in QBasic... a pity MS decided not to supply that after... W95? I used to care a copy of the old .exe from machine to machine.

You should get out more.

Puzzle for you: How do you get a magnified view of a small animated GIF under Vista? E.g. this one: Migraine aura - scintillating scotoma, which doesn't really work until you spread it across most of your screen.


Coo... I'm suddenly going all "analogic" (actually the name of a company I was involved with, for a while - array processors).

In Vista you have a toolkit consisting of a hammer, a bolt cutter, a cassette recorder and a palette knife.

With open source, Linux and its plethora of distributions, etc, I have a complete car/shuttle rebuild workshop, a movie lot, lots more, plus access to the toolmaker (which is me, on occasion).

I like XP Better Because of the Memory Needed to run it is far less than Vista. For Vista it takes up alot of your system RAM to run it and in the end slows down the computer. I mean if there wasn't anything wrong with XP then why create some thing totally different with it... Overall I Like XP Better

I just think that besides being sort-of more media compatable it has created more flaws, and mistakes in it.... They should take Vista and add the good parts of it and then replace the bad parts with XP... lol, "Franken-operating System"

Vista was blue screening on me after watch like 10 - 20 short video clips I went back to XP X64 and it's bee working fine since.

< flame>No wonder most banks with dignity still use OS/2. < / Flame>

And yes, I like Novell Netware too. And AIX. HP/UX (hell, I have a old Apollo with HP/UX 9.x happily adding as a spare node in a new environment of HP/UX)

But my heart belongs to Amiga. Rest in peace.

to be fair i would prefer xp but if i could get the drivers for me laptop i would shove it to microsoft and instead have linux which i think is better as it's stable, fast and there is a version for everyone.

I hate vista

To be fair, like games consoles, where new ones come out every few years, Microsoft release new versions of Windows every few years to help compete with companies like Apple. And like games consoles, people moan about them being not as good as they should be, then it goes on to be the biggest selling product in that category.

So, wait a few years and see how Vista catches on.

Ubuntu is nice, I would suggest using Wubi to install it. I had a dual-boot XP and Ubuntu Studio with 2 partitions, but the Wubi installation is just as stable, the only downside is that the maximum size virtual disk you can make is 30GB. But if any of you out there are more programming savy, it would be nice to make it more customizable.

I am not a member of the Vista Bandwagon. They have decided to treat all users as potential thieves. One case in point, here at work, we buy removable drive chassis so that wherever you are working, you can take your drive with you and plop it into a case and you have all of your apps and data right there. With XP and nix, this is not a problem. With Vista, it is. I am talking about Vista Enterprise here and not one of the consumer grades. These cases are all the same model from Dell purchased at the same time with the same specs. The only thing different between models is the serial# and the mac addy. Every time we moved one of the machines, Vista would contact our key management server and tick off a license. Within a month, the 2 people evaluating and test it had used all 15 of our licenses. I did get this straightened out with Microsoft, but I really should not have had to.

Vista is bloated big time and is a resource hog. I was amazed when a bare bones install took 650 mb of memory before I even installed my AV software. 64bit took almost 800mb of ram.

It has some serious performance issues. I have a AMD 64 x2 4600+ with 4 gb ram, 7200rpm Sata300 hard drive, 256 mb ATI Radeon x1300 and gigabyte ethernet. The network browsing was horrendous. File copy operations were a joke. It was as a fresh install with all the correct drivers. It was just nasty.

Nope, I will learn how to use it with my laptop, but I will not consider using it as a day to day OS. I am going to wait until nex year when I order a new batch of replacement computers and get it installed as an OEM. If the machines seem to be working ok without the performance issues, then I will consider rolling it out, if they are still performance hogs, then I will just stick an XP image on them. It is why I bought all those XP Pro licenses anyway.

I don't like either. XP is decent. Vista sucks.

Linux is infinitely better than any version of Windows, as far as I'm concerned.

I prefer Windows XP Professional unless it is Windows Vista Buisness. I like the lean, Mean Design of Buisness because its designed for Performence. Not Glittery Features like the Aero Desktop and Media Center Apps designed to attract average users.

I have never seen Linux so I can't really judge on that one.

Vista is rubbish. I can't even print over my wireless network from my laptop which runs Vista.

I have 4 computers total, 3 run on XP, the laptop on Vista.

For simiplicity's sake, lets call them 1, 2, 3 and 4. 4 is the laptop.

The printer is connnected to computer 1 via a USB cable, and the printer isshared on the network. This computer acts as a server for the other computers. Copmputers 2 and 3 can print from this printer (when computer 1 is on), but computer 4 (the laptop), just will not print! By the way the printer is an HP Deskjet 940c. I don't know if it's a problem with the driver or not, but when I set up the printer on the laptop, it installed the driver (it asked me first whether to install or not), without the need for the CD.

Is Vista just incompatible with XP?

Vista.

Vista is less buggy, less cartoonish, and more secure than XP.

Neither. I can't wait until I get a Mac.

Tim