Why is Vista so terrible?

[Nimbus]

Because Vista HATES games, deliberately nags your ass off about changes it makes to itself(!), deprives you of the ware freedom XP has (sounds and recording for one thing) and the system requirements are just unfair.

And let's not forget some games only run on Vista in a RETARDED attempt at phasing out XP just to promote Vista.

How does it hate games, exactly? It can't run some older ones, as evidenced above, but that is no reason to hate the newer version. You don't hate the Gamecube for being unable to play N64 games, do you?

That is just the WORST argument ever. The GameCube doesn't support cartridges, idiot. And the fact Vista doesn't play older games is a completely valid reason to hate it because it deliberately crashes or BSoD's on them for no reason.

For no reason? Hardly. It is new technology and, well, old games are old.

Oh, and for the record, equating the console generations and lack of backwards compatability to the compatability issues associated with new operating systems is perfectly reasonable.

 

[solidstatemind]

That is just the WORST argument ever. The GameCube doesn't support cartridges, idiot. And the fact Vista doesn't play older games is a completely valid reason to hate it because it deliberately crashes or BSoD's on them for no reason.

Since we're being immature and insulting people, how about:
L2use compatibility mode, nub!?

Oh, and to use the word 'deliberate' implies that Microsoft intends for you to receive a blue screen of death when you try to run an older game, and I think if you stop and take a moment, you will realize how absurd that statement is.

 

[Yokomitsu]

Well because first of all it is developed by microsoft, which from personal expriences have had many faults, then one day i had a fried say hey i use a mac and i was like whats that(unaware of there existence) so i bought my first macbook was amazing, so 2 years later updated to the macbook pro its F#$%ing awesome.

 

[Nimbus]

Oh, and for you doofi that are bugged by the prompts for authorization, go to the Control Panel, select User Accounts, and then click "turn User Account Control on or off". Then, you'll only have to deal with a notification in your system tray that says "UAC is OFF! Please address this" If *that* is too much for you to handle, go to the Services menu, right click on the 'Security Center' service, and then disable it. All your annoying notifications will be gone.

If you want a more comprehensive solution, try enabling Vista's hidden Administrator account.

 

[karmapolizei]

In more than a few topics today, I've heard people complain about Windows Vista.

But why do people hate it?
I'm using it and I don't see what the big problem is.

Thanks in advance to everyone who gives me an actual explanation.

I don't hate it. I got it on my current machine, although I'd rather preferred XP (which was too expensive), but getting used to it - there's really some things that I got to like. One thing is the Search Bar (granted, stolen from Mac OS), which works like an upgraded command line - hit the windows key, type in a few chars of the program name you want to run, and there you go. Say, you wnat to run ICQ, you just type it, and there it is, you just have to hit 'enter', without having to touch the mouse. It's great.
There's some other stuff I really like... but then, there's a lot of drag. It's just inconceivable how many steps it takes to make changes to your network config. The Explorer behaves... irratonialy.

And on the whole, the system is incredibly easy to fry. I thought I wouldn't be the person to fry an OS anymore, but with Vista, I am. right now, it behaves so WEIRD, I really need to reinstall, altought I didn't do much, really. It sucks.

On the whole: Vista is OK. Nothing more, nothing less. Don't let anyone tell you anything different. Nevertheless, I'd recommend anyone who doesn't have it yet: skip it if you can, wait for Windows Seven. It's the same thing - only that it's REALLY good.

 

[karmapolizei]

Oh, and for you doofi that are bugged by the prompts for authorization, go to the Control Panel, select User Accounts, and then click "turn User Account Control on or off". Then, you'll only have to deal with a notification in your system tray that says "UAC is OFF! Please address this" If *that* is too much for you to handle, go to the Services menu, right click on the 'Security Center' service, and then disable it. All your annoying notifications will be gone.

If you want a more comprehensive solution, try enabling Vista's hidden Administrator account.

... which works only if you have Business or Ultimate.

 

[dekkarax]

I have vista, it's fine in my opinion, a bit sluggish sometimes, but functional.
The only compatibility problems I'm having is this:

Spoiler

though that may be a hardware problem.

I'm probably not the person to ask about it though; my last OS was '98.

 

[solidstatemind]

Oh, and for you doofi that are bugged by the prompts for authorization, go to the Control Panel, select User Accounts, and then click "turn User Account Control on or off". Then, you'll only have to deal with a notification in your system tray that says "UAC is OFF! Please address this" If *that* is too much for you to handle, go to the Services menu, right click on the 'Security Center' service, and then disable it. All your annoying notifications will be gone.

If you want a more comprehensive solution, try enabling Vista's hidden Administrator account.

... which works only if you have Business or Ultimate.

And you don't want to do it anyway, at least if you're connected to a LAN/WAN or the Internet, because you are doing the Linux equivalent of giving any active user (including remote users) root access to your PC. It may take a little longer, but you really should only disable those system features that you absolutely cannot put up with.

 

[Nimbus]

Oh, and for you doofi that are bugged by the prompts for authorization, go to the Control Panel, select User Accounts, and then click "turn User Account Control on or off". Then, you'll only have to deal with a notification in your system tray that says "UAC is OFF! Please address this" If *that* is too much for you to handle, go to the Services menu, right click on the 'Security Center' service, and then disable it. All your annoying notifications will be gone.

If you want a more comprehensive solution, try enabling Vista's hidden Administrator account.

... which works only if you have Business or Ultimate.

Wrong.

 

[robopm]

i had a few problems with vista in games. sometimes it would randomly log out, and it seemed to think that the problem was the game (it wasnt, it was vista). also, with farcry 2, it seemed to think that i needed sp1, but then vista says i have it. either one of them could be wrong. luckily it works ok withought. Also, i sinned and upgraded an oem acer rather than build from scratch, so it seems to think that many programs (mostly acer trying to make me buy ANOTHER ACER) are integral to vista to run and will not let me delete them. (very annoying when stuff like norton internet security wont shut up about how i cant delete and must buy it.
despyte all of this, i believe vist (after sp1) to be a decent os and comparable to xp sp2. i dont mind it for the most part and believe much of the complaining to be exagerations. but what i really want is vista's cooler bro, 7.

 

[Nimbus]

Oh, and for you doofi that are bugged by the prompts for authorization, go to the Control Panel, select User Accounts, and then click "turn User Account Control on or off". Then, you'll only have to deal with a notification in your system tray that says "UAC is OFF! Please address this" If *that* is too much for you to handle, go to the Services menu, right click on the 'Security Center' service, and then disable it. All your annoying notifications will be gone.

If you want a more comprehensive solution, try enabling Vista's hidden Administrator account.

... which works only if you have Business or Ultimate.

And you don't want to do it anyway, at least if you're connected to a LAN/WAN or the Internet, because you are doing the Linux equivalent of giving any active user (including remote users) root access to your PC. It may take a little longer, but you really should only disable those system features that you absolutely cannot put up with.

Are you absolutly, 100% sure on that? Because, as far as I am aware, on every other version of Windows the Administrator account is activted as default, and you are just activating what Microsft hid from you. (I am assuming it was hidding because it dosn't work with UAC, which Microsoft wants you to use.)

EDIT: Oh, I almost forgot, Enabling the account makes everything run as adminstrator by default, just like it did in XP. This is, for me, the best-fucking-thing-ever!

 

[kamihiro]

It should work it is just for some stupid reason very slow to come out of hibernation.

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

That's why I still use Windows XP.

 

[Nimbus]

That's why I still use Windows XP.

Could you be a little more specific as to what "that" is?

 

[karmapolizei]

Oh, and for you doofi that are bugged by the prompts for authorization, go to the Control Panel, select User Accounts, and then click "turn User Account Control on or off". Then, you'll only have to deal with a notification in your system tray that says "UAC is OFF! Please address this" If *that* is too much for you to handle, go to the Services menu, right click on the 'Security Center' service, and then disable it. All your annoying notifications will be gone.

If you want a more comprehensive solution, try enabling Vista's hidden Administrator account.

... which works only if you have Business or Ultimate.

Wrong.

Well.

1. Actually, TRUE. What Vista HP calls an "Administrator" is NOT an Administrator, but then, you CAN activate a REAL Administrator account,...

2... if you jump through a lot of hoops. Which you can, but it's so annoying, you just might want to say "No, for most people, it's not possible".

 

[oktalist]

This book [http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Vista-Annoyances-Secrets-Hacks/dp/0596527624/] has the answers.

If it works for you, you are lucky.

One day it became completely unresponsive (taking 5 minutes to respond to a mouse click) and the ethernet device quit working. No other programs running, no viruses or malware. It took two weeks to fix, working on it for an average of 4 hours a day. And I am a professional programmer, comp sci graduate and been using Windows since version 3.1 and Linux for 10 years.

I've completely given up on Windows. Microsoft are doing it wrong.

 

[Nimbus]

Well.

1. Actually, TRUE. What Vista HP calls an "Administrator" is NOT an Administrator, but then, you CAN activate a REAL Administrator account,...

2... if you jump through a lot of hoops. Which you can, but it's so annoying, you just might want to say "No, for most people, it's not possible".

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/enable-the-hidden-administrator-account-on-windows-vista/

If one can't follow that, one dosn't deserve a good OS.

EDIT: Trying to bring back the word "one" as a pronoun. Viva la revolution!

 

[lacktheknack]

It's not. It's a memory hog, but adding RAM is the cheapest thing you can do to a computer.

 

[hebdomad]

Hmmm, well here is something that might be a shock to allot of you guys.

I see no difference between people who complain about fat princess, and people who complain about vista.

For quite some time people were complaining about fat princess saying how sexist it was against women, and against fat people. But when I read "I?ll bet that they have some sort of gruesome death scene for the princess when she?s captured, too.", I realised something, the people who are complaining about all this are the same. The read something, agree with it, and blindly run with it. (unlike some other people who do their research and play the game)

The same happened with GTA.

And now the same is happening with Vista, It would seem allot of people who hate vista have never actually used vista!

Now I'll only take anyone's point seriously on any subject if they have done there homework.

I was forced onto vista, much to my disgust, but so far after a couple of tweaks, I find it much better than XP. Most if not all of my XP games run on my machine, I have little or no problem with it. Any old games I play can be run off my old machine anyway.

(yes I know this is a couple of years late, but meh this all needed to be said)