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Originally Posted by DM Magic  I have Vista on me and my girlfriend's laptops (been using it for a few years) and XP on my girlfriend's desktop. I'm going to be formatting her desktop and the question of what OS to install came up. I've heard some people prefer XP over Vista, but I never knew why.  |
If you're a somewhat typical user and seldom have to venture into the guts of the OS to get something done, and you already have some experience with Vista then Vista should be okay. However, I have desperately despised the transition from XP to Vista on laptops I have to use for work.
Vista has fought me at almost every turn, has had standard capabilities that I've used for years TURNED OFF by default (ping return) and the ability to turn them back on again buried so deep it was as if they never even wanted you to use them again. Options and abilities were moved everywhere and often not easy to find again. Old software, especially games, would not work or at best was interfered with. Everything except playing solitaire seems to be considered a security threat. To top it all off old versions of Microsoft Office were deliberately made inoperable under Windows Vista to force users to abandon perfectly good software and replace it. That last prompted me two foreswear MSOffice forevermore in favor of Openoffice.org.
I hear good things about Windows 7, but very much unlike the release of Vista I'm quite interested to see how it in action. Vista I delayed as long as possible moving to, but eventually I needed a new computer and Vista was the ONLY OS available. I even went as far as to obtain an old version of XP and tried to load that on the new laptop but drivers had not been written for much of the hardware under XP and so was forced to go with Vista anyway. I despised and distrusted it so much I went back to an older laptop running xp until just recently IT died. Even then I found a new Acer netbook running xp and have been using that for work instead of the now 2-year old laptop that has virtually been a doorstop since I bought it.
But that's just me. My hat of dVista knows no limit.
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