Any Microsoft Fanboys Here!! !

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I'm on vista right now, it's alright. I got it only because Microsoft had a free gift program, and I got vista out of it. I tried it on my new Macbook, but the thing hang, and was total s**t at working. It works kinda okay on my PC, it hangs a lot, but at least I don't have to occupy valuable space on my MacBook.

I like OS X Leopard. I do have some complaints about it, but nothing is perfect. I just wish I worked out Apple so I could fix every one of their GUI mistakes (I'm obsessive about UI standards.)

You can use MacPorts or Fink to install an X desktop environment or window manager, thus bypassing the Mac GUI. It is more difficult than doing similar things in Linux, but it can be done and at the end you could end up with the clean, wonderful UI that is GNOME. Or KDE, or IceWM, Metacity, Fluxbox, E17... whatever you want, really.

I'm interested to know if one could install Gnome on Vista with no danger of wreaking the system... It would solve one of by big issues with Vista...

I looked into it too. All I found was 'coming soon'. I think you'd want to switch to a file system that supports better options for permissions, but that sounds like "break windows" to me.

No, you can't. There is supposedly KDE on Windows, but from what I've seen it's just the ability to run KDE programs on Windows, rather than actually having the Linux UI on Windows. OS X is based on UNIX and has the X Window system, so it can use many of the same things Linux does.

OS X is very easily customisable if you have the right software and/or know what your doing.

Ah, just a rearrangement of the menuing system. I see. Personally I hate the KDE file dialog.

I think today I'm gonna spend time screwing with my Vista partition, I just downloaded a program which will change my logon screen, I'll take a look at more stuff if you recommend it

I'm only lukewarm to Vista due to all the compatibility issues & UAC. Also x64 versions of XP are glitchy. Only Vista x64 is actually a very good operating system. Third XP Professional is what I use.

I have XP Pro SP2 and it's working pretty well. Much better than Vista.

Did you get the latest service pack. Service Pack 3. You can get it automatically by using Microsoft Update. That will fix even more security holes & errore in XP. But yes, even as a Microsoft fan I do say this. Out of all Microsoft OSe's Vista is overall the worst.

If I were you I would wait until Windows 7 to jump ahead. Microsoft has worked on it for nearly 10 years. Also within those 10 years Microsoft had ironed all all the kinks with Windows 7. Microsoft even has backwards driver compatibility if you can't find a working driver currentely availiable on windows 7 or the windows 7 driver gives you nothing but sh*t.

Hey Gamefreak, Windows n00b question here. I know it's dumb to run as an admin account, but in a regular user account I can't actually do anything, including install AV software or anything else. How do I authenticate for temporary administrative privileges from within my limited user account so I can install software?

EDIT: Never mind, I figured it out. Right-click, run as. In my mind, not the absolute best way of handling that, but it's functional and certainly a lot nicer than UAC.

Ah, and I have found a couple advantages for Windows. 1)Office 2007 is definitely the most feature-rich office suite in existence. 2)Google Chrome, which is pretty neat. It never worked in my Vista, but XP handles it quite nicely. It looks to be a pretty cool browser, though it's still a bit buggy. Also, XP has good performance/speed, which was my main gripe with Vista.

Yeah we don't talk about Vista...

And on the matter of customization, XP isnt so bad with the aid of Stardock:

Just think, all those 64bit processors running Windows 5.1 ... Just wait until they try to download 64bit mods for games I use only 64bit OS's on my most powerful computer as I see no point in wasting the extra bandwidth that will not get used. The only major problem I have with Windows 5.2 is that I couldn't get Doom to install - the latest one. I had to modify a file and recreate the disc. Apparently Windows XP 5.2 isn't Windows XP - lol. I can see that DOS based games will not work unless I configure DOSBoxer - Same with Windows 6.0

Why is the next version of Windows going to be called Se7en? with a version number of 6.1 ? Windows "7" will be built on top of the Vista's core. Just as XP is built on the core of "Windows 2000.

When they release it, I will definitely try it anyway. Maybe it will be better, maybe not. I guess there is one way to find out.

Well I would just click Run on the Start Menu and Type Msconfig, Then afterwards go to UAC & Disable it. I can help you turn off all the bells & whistles vista has. Or is it just better to stay with Windows XP & Ubuntu.

Right now, on my laptop I can access Mac OS X, Vista, Ubuntu, or XP. (Tri-boot of OSX, Vista, and Ubuntu, with XP in VB inside Ubuntu) It would be rather a pain to re-do my triple-boot set-up, so if possible I would prefer to get Vista functional. I'm utterly horrified at the performance of Vista with the amount of RAM I have, but it probably is possible to cut it down somewhat.