August 11, 2007 @ 9:19 pm | 12 comments
Reasons I hate Windows Vista
By: Mona
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I have Windows Vista Business edition. I installed it on the computer I bought earlier this year. I have an AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ 2.6 GH. 2 gigs of ram, and a very decent 512 meg video card. Lots of hard drive space and great 16x DVD player/writer. My computer is great. Fast and lovely. I decided to install Vista because it was available for me. It was a free educational distribution, and obviously I wanted to try it out.
Here are the problems I have been facing,
- I can’t seem to dual boot, so Linux on a second partition was out of the question.
- I can’t install software that I have been using for years on XP. Even when I change the compatibility version to XP, it still does not work.
- Every time I install anything, I get at least 2 or 3 confirmation asking me, “are you sure?” “Is it safe?”
- I can’t turn off the warnings or I will never know if there was an error. It’s either have it all, or not have it.
- I wanted to install one of my favourite games, Civilization 4, but refused to install. Obviously that pissed me off.
- I was browsing the net, and I was trying to see a clip using windows media player 10, but the screen froze. I saw a blue screen of death few seconds after, and the computer shut off. It rebooted again telling me, “you have just experienced a fatal error, would you like to tell Microsoft about it?” Thanks Vista for telling me what I obviously saw and experienced! Next time tell me what was the reason for it!
- When I uninstall some software, the short cuts on my desktop don’t go away. I try to manualy remove them and tells me, “cannot remove shortcut, application does not exist.” No really?
- Forced to use IE7, although IE6 was more stable. So I stuck to Firefox and never opened IE7 since installation.
These are minor things I just experienced. I am thinking of going back to Windows XP. But at this rate of my disappointment in all Microsoft crap, I am going to install Linux instead.
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I heard that Visita is a memory hog and doesn’t run as fast as XP is that true?
well. to me Vista runs fine. it is not slow.. but my computer is very new with lots of ram.. so it depends on your machine really.. but compared top vista.. not much difference.
I kept Vista about 1 month and went back to XP. I have never thought about Vista again.
I kept it thus far because it was a legal version! :lol:
i hate Vista , not going to use it till i make sure ALL my application FULL compatible with it ..
and yes i need dual boot , i need Linux in my machine too …
XP is good so far …
switch to Linux i tried a lot , i don’t know in somehow it need allot of work and again u find things dose not work with u …
My version was legal too. :duh:
you can use windows applications on Linux. You just need to install whine..
I found Vista quite useful, and far stable then the XP, I am using the Vista Ultimate edition, and it has a very useful disk managment tool so you can resize NTFS\FAT partitions.. so i found it useful, i also got Debian Linux installed and yes, i can dual boot, between GRUB (Linux\Solaris), Windows Vista, and XP. so i can’t see a problem here, about the Wine emulator for linux, i would not count it as replacment for the windows operating system.. yet i think that kopete and KDE far better then the Windows Interface. :fruit:
With all that RAM and a fast processor you’ve got, a Virtual Machine under Linux will run quite nicely. I’ve got Windblows XP, PC-BSD and a couple of flavors of Linux installed in VM. Sweet! :mrgreen:
hey O-Dogg.. you know.. that’s a great idea.. I should install vm-ware and linux.. hmm..
I have Vista and I HATE IT!! For a YEAR I have been trying to get Microsoft to help me because from Day 1, the *brand new* printer I bought the same day I bought this computer (which had Vista, the POS program, pre-installed on it) would not install.
For a year I have been out off and passed around UNTIL…
NOW they tell me that I have to PAY for tech support for a problem I have been trying to get help with since 3 days after I bought the freakin’ computer. I have a printer that is now, according to Lexmark, obsolete- which has never been used….not ONCE.
AOL-VR…which is the ONLY ISP I have found that will work (if one can call it that) with Vista- randomly hangs up on me and crashes. Without fail- the first time I dial in, it will connect and then immediately hang up on me after loading the welcome screen. When I connect and the minimize the POS AOL browser to use IE- everything quits responding.
MacAfee- I can’t stand it. I hate it. I lothe it with a passion heretofore unknown to man. I’d love to uninstall it. Tried to as a matter of fact. It takes my modem driver with it. The only place I have a back-up of my modem driver is on my system restore disk and it cannot be re-installed as a stand alone….you have to restore, which means you have to re-install MacAfee.
I have now told Microsoft that all I want is for them to send me 98 or XP. They can keep Vista…..just send me the disks for 98 or XP….they can even pick which one, I don’t give a #### which one. We will see who wins this little war…..I’m out a printer that is obsolete before I ever got to use it, two printer cartridges and countless hours of aggrevation. You have NO idea how pissed I am. I *will* get XP or 98 and ####ed if I am paying for it either.
Hmmmm. Marie, give a Linux a try if you haven’t already.
These are Live CDs you can run off of your CD drive without installation to see how you like them:
PCLinuxOS – http://www.pclinuxos.com/
Ubuntu – http://www.ubutu.com
My preference is OpenSUSE right now.