How's Vista for you?

[Cowboybooter]

Now that it's out there, what are your feelings on Windows Vista? Any / all flavours?

I'm running Home Premium, as it's what a lot of my clients are using, and I have to admit, for the first time in many an OS, I actually like Vista straight away! Sure, H-P has some some bloat, but it seems to have enough to satisfy the modern home user, and it plays nicely with other computers!

Your Thoughts?

:)

Bob

[Mntsnow]

Personally I'm enjoying it on my system at work. Runs very stable and is only rebooted when I reboot the host system since it's technically running in a VM enviroment.

[davidw]

I'm undecided as I couldn't choose BOTH love it and hate it. :P
I would like it and enjoy it if necessary fixes (that are coming in SP1) are made. Also, if the machine that runs it is capable of running it smoothly :). There are many nice features to Vista, but changes that are to be made need to come first before I will deploy it on my machine. I'm going to probably go with an E6850 chip with 4gb of memory and that should handle Vista. I know my wife's laptop doesn't handle it well and it has a Core duo 1.6ghz with 1gb - I even spent a little extra and had the ATI x1400 put on it, rather than regular Intel graphics.

[crossedup]

Vista must be tweaked a little as any other o/s must, until you do that it is sluggish. Most of the xp tweaks still work fine, turn off restore, mess with the swap file, defragment it, turn of hibernation, empty the temp files and defragment again, clean up the start up services and apps, yadda yadda.

I love my vista machine. I have it as a dual boot just by changing boot drives in the BIOS and I find I very seldom have the desire to do so.

[NeoStarO1]

I only got one computer now my laptop and its running Vista. I have come to really like it. It suited my taste to a T because I wanted a dummy computer meaning that I didn't want to have to dink with things to get things running like networking and such. I was looking at this and XP but the XP machines were more money (go figure) anyways. I have come to really like Vista so far. :) Has a few bugs but then again what OS is bug free? eh?

[Win2Kuser]

I put undecided as I do like it, but wouldn't say, I love it.

For the most part, it's a great os both visibly with the aerogel etc, and internally. It is generally stable enough for day to day stuff, but I've found that when moving large quantities of files/media around and actually using the os intensely, it is considerably slower than XP when doing the same tasks.

I'm sure most of the niggly little things will get sorted once the sp1 goes final. I tried a beta version of sp1 on a test machine running x64, and it did make quite a difference; network speed was up to where it should be, file transfer speed was greatly improved, and overall, things were a lot smoother.

My only real gripe at vista is the compatibility issues I still get with some software and to a greater degree, hardware. One would have thought that as vista is the new os and has been since the beginning of the year, any hardware sold now as new should have vista support - it doesn't. Before XP came along, having new hardware that was not compatible was unheard of, but now it can be a headache for system builders when building a custom machine as in a lot of cases, you can't be sure that the hardware will work and drivers are available.

Other than that though, I think it's the best os from MS so far - not that that is saying a lot :D

[Cowboybooter]

Compatibilty is an interesting one!

I have a client who uses M$ Netmeeting regularly, to talk to relatives in Oz! He bought a Vista machine, and netmeeting would not install, google told him to use Windows Live / Messenger, which didn't work at the other end!

I fooled around with compatibility, eventually discovered that if I downloaded netmeeting.exe, right clicked it and selected 'Run in compatibilty mode for NT4.0' it then installed properly in Vista, and worked at both ends!

I'm still fooling with compatibility!

:)

Bob

[MRCOMPUTER]

Running Vista Business on my boxes. Not real comfortable with the compatability thing. Granted, it allows some apps to run, that would not run otherwise. I view it as a failure in the operating system to even need such a thing. My 2C...;)

[mholtum]

I am kinda liking it on my new machine, kinda.

[Uncle Bob]

Enjoy your Vista

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[dusty]

well, i selected "Undicided" due to liking certain parts of it and hating rest...

[NeoStarO1]

I like ti for the most part, however there are some buggy issues. i have it on my toshiba laptop. I am not sure if the buggaroo's are due to vista or driver problems or just plain ole' touchiness. they must have sent me a female laptop. :rolleyes: ;)

[mholtum]

I am liking it more and more. Dont get me wrong, I wouldnt run out and buy it to install, it came on my Dell, Home Premium, and after all my discounts, I have myself convinced I got it free.

It runs as fast as my SUSE box and havent had it crash a single time. networking is a freaking snap.

[ThRoNkA]

Mines working fine. I found out my memory was severly underclocked - I didn't set it right so it was slow - now its at 533mhz memory - runs like a champ now that all the speeds match.

[tweakerpc2002]

i hate it, i have not loaded it on my pcs, but i have fooled around with it, i hate where they changed everything where you have to hunt to configure or tweak anything advance on it:wtf: