Econo-Box

XP got stable quick compared to vista and XP WAS stable if you compare the issues. XP is not gold by any means but its issues I think at teh time werent as bad as Vista.

Meh you gotta point either way.

NIGn0g

Vista is not that bad, just very slow... If they could remove the "Do you want to execute this application?": yes
"Are you really sure?" yes
"Sure sure sure?" It's pissing me off...


Linux FTW!

Jorsher

Ubuntu is good overall, but it's a pain in the *** to get it to recognize my screen resolutions and even a bigger PITA to work with my broadcom wireless card. XP runs sufficiently, and can do everything I need it to do, so I'll use it as my main OS.

For the vista "do you allow" crap, someone mentioned above on the thread how to get rid of the messages.

sunboost

as an admin i dont think you get all those annoying warnings, at least ive yet to seen them

NIGn0g

You only have to set your resolution in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file... I had to do it for my 22" because the max I had was 1440x900.

losesomethinbra

You can disable all that popup ---- pretty easily... Disable UAC in the accounts setup.

But flash back to like 1999. Everyone I knew was running win98 and refused to run win2k for gaming. Then they moved to win2k because it was more stable and they eventually refused to run xp. Now what? They are all running xp and refuse to run vista. But I admit, vista costs maybe 400 in hardware upgrades just to run smoothly lol.. None of the other OS's were that bad

Jorsher

Yeah I know how to do it, but it's still a hassle I shouldn't have to go through.

sunboost

worse os ever, winme, agreed?

Jorsher

Don't think anyone will disagree with that. The others had their flaws, but eventually got them worked out. WinME had flaws from the start and never fixed them.

It's amazing I used to see WinXP and bloated ---- and now it seems streamlined and simple. I really hated the new look too, was too round and bubbly. I still hate the "new" start menu and control panel and switch it all back to classic view.

Anyone know how well Vista would run on an amd 2400 with 1gb of ram? Last time I installed it was the leaked beta which of course ran like crap. I really need to familiarize myself with vista because it seems foreign to me.

Ubuntu performs GREAT. It just doesn't have the software/compatibility XP has, and is different from the Windows I've grown up with. I know there's wine, but why go through the trouble for minimal performance increases?

Ntrain2k

2 gig of ram for vista, at a min.

DX10 graphics card as well.

FVXP4M

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