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Vista Sucks!


Okay that may sound harsh considering I get the license and the DVD for free from Adrian but I have to be honest right? At the first glance of lingering under Vista I got the feeling that this is THE operating system to rule them all. In terms of graphic beauty and eye-candy-ness it’s no doubt that it’s more beautiful than the current version of OSX (10.4 — Tiger). Although this is highly subjective matter because I love darker colors than lighter ones (heck, my laptop is black).

But in terms of usefulness, Vista doesn’t offer anything new that can enhance your computing experience. I thought the notification warning will be the same like my ZoneAlarm firewall security warning that popped up once in a while, but Microsoft can find a way to annoy their users every time we click every friggin’ thing!

Gaming

Of course the first thing that I’ll do with my not-so-new rig is to play games (my spec is 2GB DDR RAM, Athlon XP 2600, 7300GT, nothing fancy). I tried Oblivion, Company of Heroes, and Rainbow 6 Las Vegas.

I realized that the spec is nothing special so I tried to run those games in medium settings (except Rainbow 6, the rig can handle it well on medium to high settings under XP). And what did I get? An utterly mediocre performance. I seriously don’t get it, I mean the only thing that has changed in Vista (from the users perspective that is) is the eye candy, the rest are more or less the same but it is indeed a system hog.

Business Stuffs

I trade stocks, options, and futures sometimes and luckily, the platform that I used (IB) can run well under Vista but not because it’s backward compatibility but because it runs under Java. Some other trading stuffs that run quite well under vista is Metastock trial and eTrading trading platform. Granted that those stuffs doesn’t run as snappy as it once was under XP.

Conclusion

In my short test (around a week) using Vista, it is surely a nice operating system with a lot of eye candy elements that will probably indulge your senses. But in terms of productivity booster, I doubt that the new installment will have any impact on your productivity (not to mention the learning curve). Even for gamers that wants DirectX 10, stay away from Vista in the mean time. You can upgrade when Microsoft already sorted out what caused the system hog widespread under Vista.

PS: I’m installing back to XP. That license must be lying around here somewhere… now if I can just find it…

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Written by:
amellie
Posted on:
5/9/2007 at 2:47 pm

thx for your honesty :P lol

yeah, i’m planning to buy a new laptop.. but i don’t think i’ll use vista. most of my favourite programs are not compatible to vista yet.. so it’s quite annoying. i think, xp can do most of the things i need..

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Written by:
Hardjono
Posted on:
5/9/2007 at 4:47 pm

Hey hey hey, its not that bad…:) After a while you get used to it. People have an amazing ability to adapt, right? :) :)

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Written by:
Adrian Godong
Posted on:
5/9/2007 at 5:24 pm

Yes, gaming in Vista sucks… Especially true for outdated drivers.

Gw kemarin pakai FX5200, nyoba main game-game lumayan baru (Need For Speed Carbon, Company of Heroes), jalan sih jalan, tapi masih banyak glitch. Mostly karena driver.

That thing you click every single minute is UAC. You could’ve disabled it, but then you wouldn’t know which action caused your computer to crash, spywared, caught virus, etc. It’s an initiative from Microsoft to improve security by improving _user behaviour_. The weakest link in computer security is human. Social engineering is the biggest security issue.

But then again, DirectX 10 games will run only in Vista. So if you’re truly a gamer, you would move, sooner or later. Har har har!

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Written by:
Nanda Firdausi
Posted on:
5/9/2007 at 10:30 pm

Boleh buat saya dong licensenya berarti? :P

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Written by:
pipit
Posted on:
5/10/2007 at 10:45 am

Wah, wah, bakal ada undian pelimpahan vista nih :)
Ambil antrian dibelakang Nanda.

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Written by:
Oskar Syahbana
Posted on:
5/10/2007 at 12:30 pm

@amellie: Yeah it’s better to use XP in the meantime

@Hardjono: yeah people might get use to it but that’s not the point. Having spent 5 years and billions of research money and the outcome is Vista? Come on… MS can surely do better than that

@Adrian: I’m not using outdated drivers, infact, I use NVIDIA driver’s for Vista (the newest update is May 2nd). Since Microsoft positioned Vista as a gaming platform right from the start (DX 10 exclusively for Vista) they ought to do better to coordinate with the major GPU producers. And yes, I know that is UAC but I don’t know that it’s THAT annoying. It popped up every time you clicked every single thing! Why can’t they just make the UAC to adapt (like they do in ZoneAlarm)? And that Windows OneCare is a joke (google it and you know what I mean).

@Nanda & Pipit: I don’t know if it’s legal to transfer the license (it’s covered thoroughly on some site which I forgot)

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Written by:
Anshoo Arora
Posted on:
5/30/2007 at 9:58 am

I have been using Vista for a long-time now and to tell you the truth, it has in its very own way to screw things up. Windows XP has been around for quite a while and apart from a few gripes, it’s excellent. I have also been testing Ubuntu and OSX and they’re both excellent platforms. Windows truly has a long way to go. They want to succeed by making everything appealing to the eye.. let’s see how far they can go with it.

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Written by:
Jauhari
Posted on:
6/14/2007 at 5:12 pm

Vista untuk beberapa hal saya suka, dibanding XP lo… jangan dibanding OSX lo ya ;)

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Written by:
Oskar Syahbana
Posted on:
6/17/2007 at 4:48 pm

@All: don’t get me wrong, if compared to XP it’s a breath of fresh air from the Microsoft camp. But however, Vista surely doesn’t justify the 5 years development period (although rumor has it that Vista is done in well under two years after the longhorn project is scrapped because it’s not feasible at that time)

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Written by:
JT
Posted on:
7/3/2007 at 1:18 pm

I’ve had this Vista machine for less than a month and in that time I have had countless more problems than I ever had with my XP machine…in fact, I never had problems with XP. I could list them all here, but I’ll leave some lines for other people. I concur, VISTA SUCKS!!!

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Written by:
glum
Posted on:
8/2/2007 at 8:03 pm

Vista really sucks man! I just bought a laptop with 2GB RAM, 2GHZ Core2Duo processor and 120GB HDD.

It never seems to have enough memory for this thing though I hav 2 gig. And the worst thing is IE gets frozen in every 10 mins or so. Windows Media Player doesn’t open at all. Whenever I try to open the player it says “windows media player has stopped working”, it can only stop after staring right? but without even starting this thing says it has stopped!!!! what the …..

Next, lets see, I have Dreamweaver installed in this damn thing, and whenever I try to start some work with a database, it automatically closes dreamweaver without even “saying a word”, losing all my work..

Just don’t buy VISTA

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Written by:
Eljay
Posted on:
8/3/2007 at 8:10 am

First, Vista is not targeting TODAYS hardware. It is targeting the hardware that will be available in 3-6 years from now. Microsoft is planning for the future. Going to where the puck will be, not where it is. That’s why Vista runs like -ss on todays hardware; what is top of the line now, say a MacPro 8 core with 16 G RAM and 3 T HD, will be next year’s entry level machine at a $500 price point.

That high end MacPro machine is the one that Vista will run merely poorly on. Today. The machine that Vista will kick backside is the one that will be top of the line from Apple two or three years from now, and in five or six years will be the sub-$500 entry level bargain basement model from PowerSpec.

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Written by:
Ron
Posted on:
8/12/2007 at 1:47 pm

I agree, Vista is very pretty but if you need to run anything other than Internet Explorer and other very basic software it SUCKS!

It is the most inconsistent operating system I have ever dealt with. I have tried to design an install for a software program for Vista for months now with no luck still. Sure the software will work after you install it and then manually register the activex files, but thats not how an installation is supposed to work. With Vista you run into different problems with different configurations and with different versions of Vista so there is never just one fix. The UAC is a joke, I’m sure thats the first thing most people disable, but even then the fundamental changes they made for UAC purposes is what causes most of Vista’s problems.

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Written by:
новини
Posted on:
9/3/2007 at 5:49 am

I agree - Vista sucks, not only for gaming, but even for regular office work. Its not ready!

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Written by:
Dave
Posted on:
9/13/2007 at 10:02 am

Vista sucks period. I finally bought a new computer for my business and Acrobat won’t work, offic XP is refusing to work correct and I have some seriously expensive design applications (like 8000.00 per license) that crash every time. I could care less about useless performance sucking looks, I want a stable workstation. Looks like XP Pro is going on this one too. MS can take Vista and shove it. I am not going to spend thousands to upgrade for what? Pretty screens?

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Written by:
John Jones
Posted on:
9/13/2007 at 8:25 pm

Type your comment here. I do not like much of anything about vista. XP is better and now older. MS missed it. They wasted their time and my money for VISTA. Just how dumb can gates be? Upgrade to xp older version. But they may be going down hill now. so be carefull if they offer upgrades to old xp.

Comment Number:
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Written by:
John Jones
Posted on:
9/13/2007 at 8:25 pm

Type your comment here. I do not like much of anything about vista. XP is better and now older. MS missed it. They wasted their time and my money for VISTA. Just how dumb can gates be? Upgrade to xp older version. But they may be going down hill now. so be carefull if they offer upgrades to old xp.

Comment Number:
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Written by:
sherry
Posted on:
10/15/2007 at 2:11 am

cant install quicktime movie player on Vista. The machine freezes then I have to manually shut it down and reboot. Hastalavista baby i am going back to XP

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Rike
Posted on:
11/1/2007 at 12:07 pm

Based on my experiences with it, I think it should have been called Windows Vega, like the old GM car. Works about as well.

Comment Number:
20
Written by:
Robman
Posted on:
1/25/2008 at 3:07 pm

I found that Vista sucks also.
My gaming went to hell.
Can’t find drivers. Can’t burn Cd’s.
It’s slow as hell with 2Gig of everything. If it wasn’t for Vista
Manager it would just crash.
It’s a joke..
Microsoft should just find a fix and
make us all happy.