ComicalGnomes wrote:
Vista looks as 'original' as I can make it, but that doesn't excuse the crippling performance issues, the most notable of which is that it somehow fails to fucking cope with video and media player crashes and hangs constantly despite doing everything humanly possible to fix it. Like most microsoft products, it thinks it knows better than you do, and turns on a load of unnecessary shit by default or otherwise bugs you about things you DO NOT WANT.
I quite agree, I was just pointing out that people said the same thing about XP when it first came out. And ME, come to that. It was kinda justified with ME, though...
Like I say, I don't run Vista out of choice. All my PC's are perfectly legal Windows installs which I understand is something somewhat quaint, these days. I could upgrade to Vista tomorrow, if I wanted to - I'm sure at least half the board have the know-how to "acquire" it, too. But there's no real gain and quite a few potential downsides.
Which is why I personally am gradually moving everything over to a Linux based system. I have mine streaming to 360, playing media, playing WoW/EvE/CoH/C&C3 etc, pretty much everything I do on Windows. And it was cheaper and stays completely up to date at all times.
That slow Windows Vista install, though, eh? What could be causing it?