Soo... How has Vista treated you so far?

[ThirdWizard]

It's great. Very few issues none of which are worth noting. Gadgets are fun. I wouldn't run it on a weaker machine, but I think that's well known by now. Driver support has been fine thus far.

 

[Ranger REG]

It's very slick, and the start up time is unbelievably fast.

How about shutdown speed?

I think I do have to turn off startup on mouse movement though... the sleep mode seems to pop off too frequently.
There's been a couple of updates, but they happen when you turn the computer off automatically, so it's almost invisible, really.

Wouldn't it be easier to set your mouse button or keyboard to startup the PC? Or your monitor's power button?

 

[John Crichton]

How about shutdown speed?

Startup & shutdown, for me, are lightning fast. Then again, I'm used to my work computer that still runs Win2000 & my old XP unit which was about 3.5 years old.

 

[IronWolf]

I just installed Vista yesterday - mainly because I don't want to be that grumpy old sysadmin talking about how great the last OS is and never upgrading. I installed on an AMD X2 3800 with 2GB of RAM. The install went fine - it was a clean install (actually I had to blow away some Linux partitions - the desktop I installed on had been one of my Fedora boxes).

My sound didn't work after the install - apparently Vista didn't have the right drivers for it (funny, all my hardware just works after a Linux install )Once I installed the sound driver it worked fine (it's an onboard sound card).

The interface seems nice. Even though I prefer command line for many tasks - I am a sucker for desktop eye candy! Though, Linux seems to have many more 3D effects these days on their desktop than Vista does at the moment. It does seem MS at least has a framework to work from now for a 3D desktop.

The UAC is slightly annoying - not quite as bad as everyone made it out to be. I haven't turned it off yet, but probably will soon.

Those are my early impressions. It will see more use in the coming month or so and I will probably put a few games on there for time killers.

Oh, start-up and shutdown times. They seem pretty reasonable. The thing with startup times is that MS just throws a login screen up way early in the process giving it the appearance that the OS booted really fast, but it is still loading a fair number of services in the background. Similar to what they did with XP as well.

 

[maransreth]

While I havent gone over as of yet, I thought this was pretty funny about the situation - http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20070331

 

[Plane Sailing]

Having run it for 3 months (due to MSDN subscription), I ditched it and went back to WinXP.

There was one dealbreaker (couldn't run Juniper/terminal services for remote access to my work PC when I'm working at home) and more niggles than I can shake a stick at, including

a) uses much more of my memory when at a standstill, which badly impacts my available memory when doing heavy compiling/3d design/photoshop work
b) no filmstrip view
c) IP over firewire removed
d) when I want to see a treeview of folders, I don't want three or so favourites showing, dammit!
e) preview pane is a pain to get to, and is global rather than per folder
f) I can no longer arbitrarily add subject/title/comment/author metadata to any file in existence - I can now only add it to Office files. I used this feature *a lot* in 2k/xp
g) I can't stand IE7
h) wouldn't reconnect to wireless network when recovering from standby/hibernation unless I told the wireless network to broadcast its SSID (XP never had a problem with this, and I don't like broadcasting my SSID)
i)... etc

There were a few feature that I thought were pretty good, but nothing that overcame the daily annoyances that I mention above, let alone the dealbreaker with Juniper.

Cheers

 

[borc killer]

Itexcept for Vanguard,

...
Other than lingering NVidia 8800 driver issues, it's been rock solid.

Yea, VG and the 8800 beta drivers do not get along from what everyone says. Is yours doing ok in XP with the 8800? I will be spending some B-Day cash very soon on a new card and have yet to deiced if I want to deal with the 8800 in VG yet.

If you have no issues in XP I’ll just dual boot as well. VG runs ‘ok’ on my 6600gt in Vista and XP.

 

[borc killer]

Oh and as for the OP: Vista has been a joy.

 

[Ranger REG]

How about Vista's System Restore feature (or equivalent)?

I haven't been able to use my XP's System Restore when I need it for some time.

 

[Plane Sailing]

I never tried the vista system restore, but the file restore (even if you've copied over it or something) works very well. I'm sorry to lose that!