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    Post here if you like and are running Vista

    Right, so many people are bad mouthing Vista for various reasons..people saying its slow, unreliable, a pain to install etc etc..and thats all we seem to hear. We never really here from those of us who don't have any problems.

    In reality I think its only a tiny, tiny percentage of people that have these problems, so lets here from the success stories out there

    If Vista is installed and working for you, please just make a post here and/or vote in the poll..but PLEASE don't make posts saying how it doesn't work, how its rubbish etc..just vote no in the poll. There are plenty of threads for badmouthing vista, use one of them

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    I'm not running it at the moment, but as an OS I think it's great, the best thing Microsoft has come up with yet. The UI is way better, they finally have symlinks, memory and process efficency is up, the little start menu search function is amazing.

    My only gripes is the broken sound interface and it's a bit too hefty, and maybe the DRM goes against my ethics, otherwise I'd buy an OEM copy and keep using it for my windows sessions.

    Basically, high praise coming from me, and me being a hardened gentoo user.
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    I use Vista Business x64 on my notebook, and since its all newish stuff inside there have been very few compatability problems.

    I did however try one of the Release Candidates on a older machine and there were sone problems with speed and compatability - these may have been fixed in final but I doubt it because it was more older peripheral drivers and such.

    All in all, I like it but I do see the reasons some wont like it.

    My notebook is a Dell Precision M65 incase anyone is interested and Vista runs pretty fast (T7200, 2GB Ram, QuadroFX 350, etc...).

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    I have Vista 64bit on a new PC that I built last week, and although there are a few problems with it (mainly around X-Fi) I am overall very pleased with it.

    I'm just about to install the Lost Planet DX10 demo... so hopefully I will be 'wowed' sufficiently to justify a DX10 GPU and Vista.

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    I tend to think that half the people who are bad mouthing vista haven't actually used it, and are just making their opinion on what they've read (which is obviously never good). A prime example:

    http://forums.hexus.net/showpost.php...1&postcount=34

    I also think that those that have used it and have had problems are either exaggerating small problems to make them sound really bad or are reporting problems to do with drivers and the like which Microsoft doesn't have any control over.

    Personally, I've used it from about 2 weeks after release, and have only had really minor problems. I'm defiantly glad I upgraded. I just hope people look at the good stuff on vista more than the bad because as Spud said in another thread, people never report the good bits, which is why vista has such a bad representation at the moment.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ajbrun View Post
    I tend to think that half the people who are bad mouthing vista haven't actually used it, and are just making their opinion on what they've read (which is obviously never good). A prime example:

    http://forums.hexus.net/showpost.php...1&postcount=34

    I also think that those that have used it and have had problems are either exaggerating small problems to make them sound really bad or are reporting problems to do with drivers and the like which Microsoft doesn't have any control over.

    Personally, I've used it from about 2 weeks after release, and have only had really minor problems. I'm defiantly glad I upgraded. I just hope people look at the good stuff on vista more than the bad because as Spud said in another thread, people never report the good bits, which is why vista has such a bad representation at the moment.
    RE: the link, I have to admit it's a bit on the heavy side.

    But I do think it has a lot going for it. Apart from the sound architecture it's much better from the kernel, upwards.
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    Using Vista on my laptop and I'm having no problems at all. The only thing stopping me using it on my main computer at the moment is the price of it.

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    it's on a partition on the laptop. works fine - but cygwin doesn't, which is an issue

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    Quote Originally Posted by directhex View Post
    it's on a partition on the laptop. works fine - but cygwin doesn't, which is an issue
    Strange..cygwin works fine on Vista for me, using the latest release...not sure why then.

    Some good responses so far though, will be interesting to see the results after some more people vote

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    using it on my htpc - vista media centre is good

    main issue i had was finding a driver for a sb live value card which was really old, managed to track down some custom drivers in the end as creative have not realeased any

    i don't think I would be ready to run it on my main pc as it seems games and some applications are suffering performance issues
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    I use Vista and I think it's fine. Thing is, it's hard to go on about how good an OS is because it should just be a layer to allow you to open the software you want to use. Lots of operating systems can do this though. So it comes down to how nicely it can do it.

    Vista is noticeably faster than XP for whatever reason. It just does everything quicker. You click my computer, it opens. No 2 second lag whilst your CD drive spins up and it tries to remember whats in there. If you want to open an application, no longer do you need to remember where it is, you just type in part of the name in the start bar.

    It's not the most amazing thing ever, it's only a tool designed to allow you to do what you want to. And it does it much nicer than XP. I've had niggles, that's for sure. When I started using it, I installed daemon tools and it broke the entire OS. Wouldn't even boot into windows, said was missing some files. Rather than repairing it though I just opted to format it again. With my generic webcam, on their website they had 'vistar' drivers, which did not work. Then I tried their 64bit xp drivers which worked fine.

    I've noticed on other websites, they have the same driver but give it different names for vista and xp. So it may be 'nforce chipset driver' for xp, and then 'NVidia motherboard drivers' for vista. Only slightly different, but still annoying.

    Counter strike didn't work at first, I can't remember why, I fixed it after an hour or so, and that was in February. But it is faster, it is easier to use, the interface is slicker, it doesn't hang in the same way XP does when you open all your fave programs at once, it just works.

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    I was actually thinking of starting a thread for people who like and are running vista

    I am runing Vista Ultimate x64 not really had any problems, found my drivers ok, the drivers that I didn't get when I first booted up where found when I done a Windows Update which forund my drivers , the only problem I've had is I couldn't get Intel TAT, and other temperature software (can't mind which others) running, or NFS:Carbon, these are just minor things, which I can live without
    Last edited by Iain M; 20-05-2007 at 10:35 PM. Reason: didn't include the edition of vista I was using...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spud1 View Post
    Strange..cygwin works fine on Vista for me, using the latest release...not sure why then.

    Some good responses so far though, will be interesting to see the results after some more people vote
    can't get X to fire up

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    Quote Originally Posted by directhex View Post
    can't get X to fire up
    Ah I hadn't tried X before, was running all console based stuff..here's hoping for a new version that will work with X then

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    I like Vista - had no probs at all. Few issues with Media Centre, but nothing a Google didn't sort out
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    Its worth noting the pc i run vista on (not this old tablet!) i built for vista, with components i knew would work well.

    I don't run any legacy software, and the only remotely tricky bit was getting FLAC on there!

    No crashes (but then again, nt4, 2k, xp..... never did).
    Snappy performance (much more soo than XP).
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