More of a comment than a question, but if anyone has solutions for the inherent problems in the much awaited new OS from hell, I'd sure be interested! I looked forward to Vista for months before I got it; I even bought a new computer to accomodate its requirements and put the fastest and biggest of everything into it. Know what I found? The OS takes so much of the available resources to run that it's actually slower than my old machine with XP Pro. Not only that, there are so many bugs and gliches that it needs restarting more often than ME (Migraine Edition). I'm getting urges to fix my machine with my favorite computer tool (a 7 pound claw hammer) after only 3 months whereas that urge usually doesn't show up for a couple of years after the purchase of a new computer. XP was an extremely stable and accomodating OS and Vista is the exact opposite. Its entire value seems to lie in the pretty new graphics and I think it should be uninstalled worldwide and collectively shoved up the ass of Bill Gates, who is conveniently retiring shortly!

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Allow me to tell you what an odd position this puts me in as I am typically a Linux user. I have been running Linux as my primary desktop OS for the past 5 years and most recently was running Mepis. I bought a new laptop in October, a Dell Latitude with 2 gigs of ram, 256m dedicated video memory, and a 2ghz Core2 Duo processor.

Installing mepis on the new machine did not go well. Palm sync support had always been flaky (worked but not well), could not get hibernate/suspend to work, WPA support was non-existent (that's been addressed now), and I could not get it to work at all with the Dell flat screen monitor attached to my docking station.

After futzing around with Mepis, Kubuntu, Ubuntu and Linux Mint for several months I decided to go back to Windows and in December loaded XP then switched to Vista in February. By the end of March Vista was slowed to a crawl and I switched back to XP. But then I had a bad crash in XP in early May and switched back to Vista again.

If you care (and doubtless you do not) you can read about my experiences in detail at http://www.southofdallas.com. My conclusions are that all OS's suck, its a matter of what you are willing to live with.

In its current incarnation I would have to say that Vista is no ME (been there done that) and with what I have learned over the last couple of weeks it is currently working well for me.

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If you post a specific question or problem, you might get help in fixing it.

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He wasn't asking a question so your post will be ignored. I agree that VISTA levels the the hardware on new machines to XP-like speed Now that we're throttled, we are ready again to buy a new machine again! Why do you think the WINDOS VISTA EXPERIENCE scale only goes up to 5.0? Just Wait, Vista will make thos 4 gig machines run like molasses (if 'n it don't crash first!)

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I must be a lucky one then. My 4 gig desktop and my 2 gig laptop both run plenty fast running home premium. My only really noticeable slowdown comes when I'm running a large GIS operation. I don't do games, so I can't comment in that respect.


On Thursday, May 17, 2007 at 3:40 pm, DC wrote:
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>He wasn't asking a question so your post will be ignored.
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>I agree that VISTA levels the the hardware on new machines to XP-like speed
>Now that we're throttled, we are ready again to buy a new machine again!
>Why do you think the WINDOS VISTA EXPERIENCE scale only goes up to 5.0?
>Just Wait, Vista will make thos 4 gig machines run like molasses (if 'n it don't
>crash first!)
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