Your View on Vista

[DeadMG]

It seems a bit clumsy in places, putting too much emphasis on looking good (which it does). For example why is 'shut down' so out of the way?

That's what the power button is for.

Vista is perfectly fine. The main reason to take it is 64bit. However, there's no actual problems with it.

7 on the other hand, is God's gift to PCs.

 

[Carnagath]

I used it for a total of 3 days, since it came with my new laptop. At first I noticed it took ages to boot. On a 4g ram dual core laptop? Uncool. But I thought ok, whatever.

Then, after being requested for permission and annoyed to hell every time I clicked a button, I realised that in order for me to change the default desktop theme and apply a custom one, I had to follow a 7 minute long youtube video full of DLL renaming, permission bypassing and registry editing. At that point I decided to format and install XP.

 

[DeadMG]

At Carnagath:
There's a specific bug (known and since fixed) where on some laptop HDDs there was a glitch with massively long boot times. Overall, it should boot faster than XP.
As for applying custom themes, I know that 7 supports that out the box. Vista, I can't remember.

 

[irishstormtrooper]

I use it, and haven't really experienced any problems with it.

 

[beddo]

If you have the 64 bit version and 4 gigs of ram+ it's really good.

I prefer it to XP but it still has many issues, particularly when copying any simple files.

 

[ILPPendant]

I still keep my copy of XP partitioned on my hard drive. I rarely use it if ever. Generally I have to fire it up if I want to play old Ubisoft games because Starforce is incompatible with x64 architecture.