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Vista annoyances resolved
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I solved my Vista annoyance by not installing it 
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Thanks for the link. Even though I'm not a Vista user anymore (except when I fire up VMWare, I'm sure it'll be a well needed read).
I too solved my Vista annoyances by going Mac.
You know what they say, once you go Mac, you never go back
I too solved my Vista annoyances by going Mac.
You know what they say, once you go Mac, you never go back
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This was the author's personal view on Vista (from the article):
What do I personally think about Vista? What would I recommend if you asked me today? I would say that quite honestly, I am having a great time using Vista as my main OS. It's fast, problem free, does everything I want extremely well, and I have no wish to go back to using Windows XP. I have a dual boot of XP and Vista, and have been using both OSes since they came out. Around two months ago however I finally weaned myself off Windows XP, which after seven faithful years of usage was really starting to show its age. I'm now completely committed to using Vista for every single purpose for which I use my PC, from writing to browsing to gaming, and everything in between.
What do I personally think about Vista? What would I recommend if you asked me today? I would say that quite honestly, I am having a great time using Vista as my main OS. It's fast, problem free, does everything I want extremely well, and I have no wish to go back to using Windows XP. I have a dual boot of XP and Vista, and have been using both OSes since they came out. Around two months ago however I finally weaned myself off Windows XP, which after seven faithful years of usage was really starting to show its age. I'm now completely committed to using Vista for every single purpose for which I use my PC, from writing to browsing to gaming, and everything in between.
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You know what thee say, once you go Mac, you never go back
I thought it was more like " the only use for a mac is to keep you dry when it rains"
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well I had lots of annoying problems and now I don't use Vista unless i have to, my computer works fine under xp 32/64bit fedora and cent OS so it must be a combination of my hardware and vista, so my take on the whole OS debate Is why buy vista and pay for a headache when you can download linux and get one for free 
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I thought it was more like " the only use for a mac is to keep you dry when it rains"
Although I am sure that Jason could find a use even without the rain
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I got so fed up of trying (googled everything, downloaded everyhting asked everyone and made a superhuman effort) to get a 3g dongle to work with vista on a new purpose bought laptop that i ended up wiping the drive and installing XP ... Problem solved.
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But thats the hardware manufacturer not writing the driver, not a vista problem.
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I cannot recall how many times I've told people that.
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I pre-solved my Vista issues by not buying a new computer
I was gutted when I had been upgraded to XP as I had to 'think' what I was doing again rather than just 'doing it'
Saves hassle sticking with what you know when it works well enough methinks
Les - as a Landscape tog I guess you just HAD to have a good Vista though
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I was gutted when I had been upgraded to XP as I had to 'think' what I was doing again rather than just 'doing it'
Saves hassle sticking with what you know when it works well enough methinks
Les - as a Landscape tog I guess you just HAD to have a good Vista though
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I have no Vista annoyances and enjoy using it
same here
i think people who complain about Vista dont have a decent enough spec PC to run it "properly"
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I bought a laptop with vista pre installed.. many people buy new machines with it installed. Do you think there selling new machines with vista on but not the right spec... wow.. amazing theory
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Linux and BSD (maybe Solaris too) folk keeps saying that and it doesn't seem to be helping them at all. Device drivers (especially for new devices) are still the biggest problem for non-windows operating systems, not the actual usability.
People want their stuff working right after they plug it in or after they download and install a single piece of software. Anything more and you're not doing it well in their eyes. Users don't want less comfort than what they're used to.
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I bought a laptop with vista pre installed.. many people buy new machines with it installed. Do you think there selling new machines with vista on but not the right spec... wow.. amazing theory
I'm not sure, I've experienced some Vista slowness even on a Q6600 with 2 GB of RAM, plenty of HDD space and a decent graphics card (8800GT, I think). The interesting thing is that programs tend to run reasonably on it after a while, but sometimes there's this meltdown like decrease in performance using the system (I think that's just Windows Explorer, not anything else that gets slow).