Windows XP VR Windows Vista

Timmarus · 04-23-2008, 06:09 AM

Which do you like best?

Mattster · 04-23-2008, 06:24 AM

Has to be Windows Vista.. Only HP or Ultimate though, the others are crap. XP, is alright and stable and stuff but Vista took my eyes.

PsionicArchon · 04-24-2008, 09:52 PM

Vista, most will say that the os is far less stable then xp.. Oh it might be in the case you're trying to use hardware with xp coded drivers, if so bring on the blue screens!

Vista is far, far, far easier to fix if you screw it up. It's packed full of repairability (I sense a new word!) side by side with xp there is no comparison. If you break xp you're pretty much done for.. system restore in xp.. a joke. With or without the cd vista can fix its self about 85% of the time should a boot up fail or a critical error of some sort occure. All you need do is run startup repair or chkdsk which is scan disk and poof good as new. While it's no time machine (osx leapord) it's plenty more capable then xp eye candy aside.

seth556 · 04-25-2008, 02:23 AM

What's the difference between the different Vista versions besides the color of the box and price?

Timmarus · 04-25-2008, 03:21 AM

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Originally Posted by seth556

What's the difference between the different Vista versions besides the color of the box and price?

Different Vistas have different stuff on them.

Brainwiped · 04-25-2008, 04:23 AM

they support different amounts of ram. vista ultimate can use upto 128gb of ram.
i like vista, but its a poor mans apple rip off!

i use home premium because i cant stand the toffs who use apple!!!

BrunetteHeaded · 04-26-2008, 05:11 PM

Vista

Oberheim · 04-27-2008, 11:39 AM

Vista, although that "this program does not support fullscreen mode" bullshit makes me want to throw a chair at the computer. Now I have to play all my 80s-90s games on my old 1998 computer!!

XP is still nice, but its 7 years old. I wanted to update.

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kasur · 04-27-2008, 06:47 PM

vista really sucks.....had it dad got rid of it back to xp now

Mattster · 04-27-2008, 09:37 PM

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Originally Posted by kasur

vista really sucks.....had it dad got rid of it back to xp now

It doesn't suck....

Seriously... What ever you had.. Must of been the basic.. Cause that does suck.. But out of all honesty.. Ever since I got Vista I had to learn it slightly with it's different layout and I know loads about it, there has been some issues but because I was willing to fix them and not strop about it (Which you may have done, which can be understandable) I fixed the problems and it works like a charm for me and I think Vista rules... Way better than XP...

Shiva · 05-02-2008, 11:34 PM

Vista

See_Right_Through_Me · 05-03-2008, 05:44 AM

Personally, I'll stick with XP... It's much better than Vista in terms of stability as well as system resources usage.... I think Vista is just a bunch of stupid visual effects that require one hell of a good machine, at a very high price (unless you want the basic edition, which has less features than a gameboy).
Plus, you can enjoy all the Vista eye candy by installing a vista theme on your xp system for FREE!!

Mattster · 05-03-2008, 06:13 AM

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Originally Posted by See_Right_Through_Me

Personally, I'll stick with XP... It's much better than Vista in terms of stability as well as system resources usage.... I think Vista is just a bunch of stupid visual effects that require one hell of a good machine, at a very high price (unless you want the basic edition, which has less features than a gameboy).
Plus, you can enjoy all the Vista eye candy by installing a vista theme on your xp system for FREE!!

Actually that's not true.. I bought my vista for the same price as my XP and this Vista has much more power than my XP did.. And it was only like £400.
Plus the "Free Vista Skin" is like not the full vista and like, I think it's crap. I prefer Vista way more than I do XP now.

See_Right_Through_Me · 05-03-2008, 06:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Mattster

Actually that's not true.. I bought my vista for the same price as my XP and this Vista has much more power than my XP did.. And it was only like £400.
Plus the "Free Vista Skin" is like not the full vista and like, I think it's crap. I prefer Vista way more than I do XP now.

I dunno just my opinion.... I haven't really used a Vista machine much (since my comp runs on Xp) so, I can really tell about the more sophisticated features (I haven't heard of any but anyway...)
As for the "Vista SKin" I'm using an addon which has pretty much all of the features of the vista interface and is free..
~~peace

Capt Sasha · 05-03-2008, 01:19 PM

I use SUSE 10.3 , it beats Vista in terms of features, resource usage and effects. As for Windows, I used XP since it is very stable on my laptop.