Vista Sucks!!!

[dangel]

Depends what you're talking about - UAC (user access control) prompts you whenever the operation your performing may compromise security etc. You can turn this off if you can't cope. If your talking about general dialogs from explorer during copy/move ops then the only way to improve that is to use a replacement (see my sig for a link) which does the job better (and will generate less UAC prompts).

[directhex]

i don't think people have grasped what an administrator does in vista yet

it's a principle nabbed from bsd

an admin on vista does NOT have total control over anything - an admin on vista has the ABILITY to have total control over anything, when and if it's needed.

it's the difference between running as root, or having access to sudo, on windows (or on BSD, being a member of the 'wheel' group).

[dangel]

It only really differs from XP Admin in that UAC is there doesn't it? With it turned off you can (as before) do anything you like - promptless.

[Koolpc]

Vista has been running flawlessly on my system for several months now. Superb OS.

[dannyboy83]

Cheers for the tips - thijk I'll turn of UAC unless Vista continually nags me to put it on!

[Slick]

Tried Vista and didn't really like it. The aero theme looks fancy but I just found it ran very slowly on my machine and I had a couple of driver problems. Now I've gone back to reliable xp on my second partition, which I've only actually booted into twice since installing as I usually just use ubuntu, which looks a lot nicer than vista if you install Beryl, Compitz, kiba dock and gdesklets, and it runs a lot faster on my machine. I also run xubuntu on a really old computer as its very fast and requires little resources, i installed xp on my girlfriend's laptop and I use windows media center 2005 on my media center, which is excellent but a bit unstable as I occasionally get the blue screen of death on my tv. I also use windows mobile 2005 on my phone, which is very good although I'm looking forward to see what the new ubuntu mobile will bring as hopefully that will be a bit more stable.

[vipernet]

I've been running vista premium x64 for about 4 months now. To be honest there were quite a few things that annoyed me to begin with, but by using some tweeks on the net I've solved most of them. The only another part that annoyed me was the lack of driver support for my dvb-t tv card which has just last week gotten a 64bit vista driver written for it and I can now watch tv on dell 24inch again!

I built another vista machine based around the 915 chipset and a p4 630 and it was noticeably slower. My father's old amd 3000+ with a gig of ram also struggles. I think to get the best out of vista you need core2 and 2gig ram imho

[Thoku]

Vista... now thats an interesting topic.

Good points:
- Looks nicer
- Very stable
- Searching system is useful
- Much more secure (That whole "Run as administrator" and "Windows permission" things are imitating the "sudo" thing in linux)

Annoyances
- The random loading in different parts of memory occasionally ****s with applications most notably Steam
- Lack of decent sound card drivers.
- The fact they made a 32bit version, it should all be 64bit! Making it 32 bit as well has just slowed driver creation down
- WM10 not working with Opera.
- I updated my drivers and had to re-authenticate.

Overall I think its good but does have a few flaws but they are mostly to do with the 3rd party developers.

[pr0p4g4nd4]

Just got my DiNovo working with Vista. I can't complain about the OS at all really. I'm loving the indexed searching from the start menu mainly. Not going to XP other than on my craptop!