Cuz? Is that you, Tell dad to drop me a line some time I haven’t heard from the old devil in ages…
I’ve never had one problem with Vista.
I wish I could have. I wouldn’t be having anywhere near the problems I am now. But Vista supposedly had drivers for hardware that XP didn’t have and I couldn’t download from somewhere, so I am stuck with this oozing piece of shit.
Me neither
I suppose it has something to do with the fact that i never installed it…
You’re kidding, right? Start by telling your customers that they’re all a bunch of loser idiots who couldn’t figure out that they were using plain-jane Vista, and get more insulting from there? Not to mention that they basically re-proved what the market behavior of the public showed already, that users initially like Vista (ooh, new, pretty, shiny!) but downgrade when they find that it’s not doing what they want (see OP).
What MS should have done is to re-write a decent OS from the ground up, based on the technologies they proposed back when it was called Longhorn. The problem is that at this point it seems that they’re organizationally incapable of writing any good software, ever. Probably the only chance we’ll have of seeing something good come out of Redmond is if they spin off a subdivision for that project and keep their hands mostly off it for a while.
Besides the necessity of working well with many different outside companies, that’s probably one of the main reasons that the Xbox software and Xbox Live work pretty well, and don’t actively suck even where they aren’t that great. You can still see the main office’s sticky little fingerprints on the gaming division, easily discerned in most cases by following the failures.
Wait, is that what the damned Apple button does?!?!? Finally some clarity.
Hey, I found something good in Vista: If you press “F2” to rename a file, it just hilights the filename and not the extension (assuming you have extensions displayed). So you don’t have to type in blahblah***.doc*** or whatever every time.
It’s a feature I guess :rolleyes: OK, OK, so I haven’t convinced anyone 
The right click rename option does the same thing. It’s a good feature of using vista. Everything has it’s good things. Similarly, only not as bad as using vista, having your finger nails pried off with bamboo means you won’t have to worry about trimming them for awhile.
I loved XP. I got Vista with a new laptop and…
… it’s not actually that bad.
It’s stable, like XP was. That’s a definite plus. It’s nixed a few old favourite toys of mine (BVE train sim anybody?) that can’t handle it. That’s not so good.
But the main point I want to raise is that the “Nannying” side of it isn’t actually that bad. I think it’s because that people tend to make up their minds in the first few days, and it’s those first few days when you’re loading up new programs like a motherfuck, and so that’s when you get hit with the “Vista needs your permission to continue” screen a lot. But after you’ve had the OS for a while, you rarely see that, and it’s just one click to get through it anyway.
All in all, I’d rather have kept XP, but it’s not a big deal. Having used MS stuff since the 3.1 days, I think vista is actually one of their better efforts. It’s not their best looking, but then neither was XP. Just “Classic Mode” the fuck out of it, and that helps a great deal.
So you’ve always had several?
See, I can tell from this alone that you’re a guy–no woman would say such a thing. Fucking IS generally a good thing if you’re a dude, but from my POV as a fuckee I can definitely assert that there are many times I’d rather be doing anything else than being fucked by certain guys. Never presume the motherboard enjoys it, just sayin’…
That being said–I really don’t mind Vista. I was running XP64 on the old laptop and planned on installing the same on the new one, but discovered that my WiFi chipset was brand new and there were zero (count it, NO) XP drivers for it, let alone 64 bit drivers. So I installed Vista Ultimate 64 and it ain’t bad. Turned off the nagware ASAP, still am a little miffed at the up folder button but Alt-Up works and I just changed my windows defaults to use the nav pane on the side, which has actually made navigation quicker for me. I don’t use search much because I know where everything is and I impose my own file structure on the drives, don’t use any of the “My” whateverthefuckfolders and never have. Yeah, I’d prefer a bit less bloat and resource use but the lappie has plenty to burn and big hard drives are cheap. If for nothing else, drag & drop DVD burning is worth the candle far as I’m concerned.
I have to admit software compatibility is not as good as it should be, but I don’t use a ton of third party apps anyway, and most of the open source stuff I do use runs just fine under V-64. Once the SP1 = Instant Death issue was resolved (which happened before I got the new laptop) Vista turned into a very stable system. I thought XP64 was stable, but Vista has it beat. For my usage patterns, Vista is fine, and I’m surprised to say that–didn’t think I’d ever move on from XP64. Now when I use an XP machine I have to retrain myself a bit…
Then again, I like Office 2007 too, so I’m obviously dain bramaged!