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HardOCP Spends 30 Days With Vista

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the second-verse-same-as-the-first dept.

boyko.at.netqos writes "Hardocp.com has published "30 days with Vista" — with the same author from "30 days with Linux" doing the evaluation. And he doesn't like it. From the article: 'Based on my personal experiences with Vista over a 30 day period, I found it to be a dangerously unstable operating system, which has caused me to lose data [...] Any consideration of the fine details comes in second to that one inescapable conclusion. This is an unstable operating system.'"

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  1. Does Vista do anything right? by mjmalone · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Is there anything that Vista does right? It's not just that it's more resource intensive, and less stable than XP - it's also less usable. Check out this report, vista is less intuitive, has higher menu latency, and has more "friction" than XP/OS X. This is not just about the OS being "pretty." For a product that is used every day by millions of people this will substantially impact productivity.

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    1. Re:Does Vista do anything right? by Ucklak · · Score: 4, Interesting

      One of my biggest gripes is that the popups are too wordy and popups that require an answer aren't intuitively selectable.
      Going to green text on a white background for a "Yes, I want to" or "No, I don't" was a bad UI choice.

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    2. Re:Does Vista do anything right? by multisync · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Would you be willing to post the registry hack, or a link to it?


      This isn't mine, just something I found with a Google search:

      [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
      "EnableBalloonTips"=dword:00000000

      I carry it on a USB stick, so I can run it whenever I use someone else's machine. I don't know how people use Windows with all those pop-ups (kind of like browsing the web with IE6, I suppose).

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  2. Not to pile on, but... by LibertineR · · Score: 4, Interesting
    At this very moment, my primary workstation is in the middle of a Spinrite recovery cycle, because Vista keeps corrupting my SATA Raid, and cause it to disapear.

    This computer dual boots XP, where this never happens. The RAID driver is exactly the same on both OS's so I blame Vista.

  3. Windows Vista for me... by infiniphonic · · Score: 4, Interesting

    has been no trouble at all. I have been running it on an older Toshiba A10-S169 laptop. It installed all drivers without the slightest problem. Out of a gig, it runs with about 350 to 400 megs of ram used by the OS. Some old software has not worked at all and some has worked flawlessly. I run it in basic due to integrated 3 year old crappy graphics. It has locked up a few times. It has not totally crashed once. It seems to come back from errors much quicker than XP ever has. It works very well for a new OS. I can not say the same for XP in it's first six months. I might start recomending it to friends and customers soon. I have yet to encounter the DRM boogyman. I am using it to type this post. If you haven't tried it yet, don't discount it because you really don't know what you are talking about. Some problems are bound to occur with some hardware this early in it's life. Thats how it is with something new. Not everything in the world will work perfectly, but many problems that people are having now will be worked out in the next year. It's probably not for everyone and thats OK. My Vista rant.

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