Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 2:02 am
What I'm hating about Vista IS it's driver support... All of my problems have been due to inadequate drivers, and inadequate drivers were what gave Vista such a bad start. To now cite Vista's biggest weakness as a plus sounds pretty crazy to me. My desktop may be stable now thanks to ATI Catalyst 9.1 and up + Realtek gigabit drivers from December, but I'm still fighting against blue screens on my laptop.
What I like about Vista I put into the second post in this thread:
http://www.mylilsite.net/bwp/viewtopic. ... 0591#20591
which I just saw that I had the piracy bit at both the beginning and the end. Embarassing
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To add to it, there are many things Vista just does better than XP in, and they're things you just have no idea what you're missing until you experience it.
Like, the Start -> All Programs is always alphabetically sorted for you, no need to manually sort it after every program install.
There was also this really annoying issue in XP where I have this particular folder with 12,335 files in it (and counting), and whenever the folder gets selected in any way, not even opened, Explorer would just freeze there for a minute, probably to scan through the internals for reasons I'm not sure about. It even happened on fresh XP installs without any scanners or protection. Switched to Vista, no more freezing! Clearly, there were possible optimizations they were aware of and implemented that not too many users (even I only have one folder like that) would run into. It just goes to show the level of care they put into the OS. (too bad hardware companies couldn't put the same level of care into their drivers)
I don't see why anyone would stay with XP. Even with the blue screen issues with my laptop I've stuck with Vista because it is simply better. However, I'm starting to get sick of the issues, and am considering an escape to Ubuntu, not XP. At least it still has more modern features than XP.
What I like about Vista I put into the second post in this thread:
http://www.mylilsite.net/bwp/viewtopic. ... 0591#20591
which I just saw that I had the piracy bit at both the beginning and the end. Embarassing
.To add to it, there are many things Vista just does better than XP in, and they're things you just have no idea what you're missing until you experience it.
Like, the Start -> All Programs is always alphabetically sorted for you, no need to manually sort it after every program install.
There was also this really annoying issue in XP where I have this particular folder with 12,335 files in it (and counting), and whenever the folder gets selected in any way, not even opened, Explorer would just freeze there for a minute, probably to scan through the internals for reasons I'm not sure about. It even happened on fresh XP installs without any scanners or protection. Switched to Vista, no more freezing! Clearly, there were possible optimizations they were aware of and implemented that not too many users (even I only have one folder like that) would run into. It just goes to show the level of care they put into the OS. (too bad hardware companies couldn't put the same level of care into their drivers)
I don't see why anyone would stay with XP. Even with the blue screen issues with my laptop I've stuck with Vista because it is simply better. However, I'm starting to get sick of the issues, and am considering an escape to Ubuntu, not XP. At least it still has more modern features than XP.
