Comments on: Reasons I hate Windows Vista

By: O-Dogg

O-Dogg — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:23:05 +0000

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.

By: Marie

Marie — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:26:42 +0000

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 We will see who wins this little war…..I’m out a printer that is obsolete before I ever got to use it, two printer cartridges and countless hours of aggrevation.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.

By: Mona

Mona — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:48:05 +0000

hey O-Dogg.. you know.. that’s a great idea.. I should install vm-ware and linux.. hmm..

By: O-Dogg

O-Dogg — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:46:17 +0000

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!

By: yuv

yuv — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 18:41:12 +0000

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:

By: Mona

Mona — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:22:19 +0000

you can use windows applications on Linux. You just need to install whine..

By: Rich from D.C.

Rich from D.C. — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:47:00 +0000

My version was legal too. :duh:

By: Qabbani

Qabbani — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 09:51:22 +0000

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 …

By: Mona

Mona — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:17:59 +0000

I kept it thus far because it was a legal version!

By: Rich from D.C.

Rich from D.C. — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:08:43 +0000

I kept Vista about 1 month and went back to XP. I have never thought about Vista again.