"86% of vista users would recommend it to a friend"

YearOfTheLinuxDesktop
Seven of Niner! Resistance is Futile!

either somebody missed april fools by a full month or the study was sampling vegetative patients Perplexed

does anybody seriously believes those words? the bad things I hear about vista are almost exclusively coming from people who actually tried to use it and got rid of it after months of tribulation. most of the issues are caused by applications and drivers that are "vista compatible" only by name, like for instance the touted as vista compatible pinnacle studio 11 I bought a week ago that broke vista experience index updating (luckily the values were all 5.9s so I'm not missing anything for now :O), but you can't blame just the ecosystem when the cause of this mess is microsoft itself allowing vendors to put vista-compatible logos on all sorts of hardware and software without the proper testing.

rcardona
what!ever...

I would NOT hit it (Vista that is).

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

I would recommend it, but that's what you all expected me to say, didn't you? Tongue Out

YearOfTheLinuxDesktop
Seven of Niner! Resistance is Futile!

Sven Groot wrote:

I would recommend it, but that's what you all expected me to say, didn't you?

okay, now, where's the remaining 14%? Expressionless

Xaero_Vincent
Sexy me

Vista SP1 is fine. The drivers I've used have been very stable.

If the system has a motherboard with the Nvidia NForce chipset and/or has an Nvidia graphics card then I might recommend XP over Vista. Still, I think Nvidia's Vista chipset and video card drivers have improved recently.

ManipUni
Proving QQ for 5 years!

Vista and XP Pro are equal.

If Vista Premium costs more than XP Pro (which it often does) then I would suggest people get XP Pro simply for price reasons.

Additional Volume Controls, Additional Clocks, and a little else aren't really a reason to get Vista. Plus you have to counterbalance those few features with no hardware accelerated audio angst other annoyances.

Vista isn't a bad product, just not a better one...

pathfinder
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

Reccomend it over what is the question. I have had vista since October 2007 and after a while I have gotten used to it. Which can be said about any windows operating system.

My over all experience was better than when I first went to Windows 95A. Even Window XP had its issues.

After you throw away all of your old printers and scanners, and buy new ones Windows Vista works great.

In fact I can honestly say that I have not rebooted my Vista SP1 in over a month. Its actually turning out to be a pretty stable operating system.

Anyways, the other day a friend of mine was shopping for a new computer and asked me if he should get one with Vista. I said sure, he might as well, since XP will be off support soon. Is that considered a reccomendation?

SlackmasterK
I write my OWN blogging engines

Xaero_Vincent wrote:
Vista SP1 is fine. The drivers I've used have been very stable.

++

Then again, I veer toward ATI and have pretty much all new hardware Smiley

Dovella
Go Microsoft !!!!!!!

Vista??
The Best S.O. !!!!!!!!!!!!

brian.shapiro
things go on as always

Dovella wrote:
Vista??
The Best S.O. !!!!!!!!!!!!

Dovella, I miss your animating GIF

SaraJoRedux
GirlDeveloper.com

I think the anti-windows jerks are just the loudest. I'm making the folgers switch with my OSs soon.

I'm not afraid of no Vista.

Ramble

I've been using it exclusively since september 2006 and I would fully recommend it, challenge my intelligence if you will but Vista is an excellent operating system.

erik_
Tablet Power

After a while of using Vista, than you start to miss those small things in XP. If you are gonna get a new pc get vista, if you are gonna get a new pc and place a lot of old hardware inside, get xp but think if you need to move the actual hardware.

To me the main issue with not getting Vista is the mess around the drivers, while everything works ok for new hardware, older hardware is still a mess. x64 drivers are also still buggy some of the time, my machine bluescreened a few times because of the realtek x64 driver, luckely there is a new driver which solves the issue, but still.

My vista 32bit box had no problems at all, is that luck or Big Smile

Dovella
Go Microsoft !!!!!!!

brian.shapiro wrote:

Dovella wrote: Vista??
The Best S.O. !!!!!!!!!!!!

Dovella, I miss your animating GIF

blowdart kill me Big Smile

OT (i have a new gif summer rc1 Big Smile

)

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

YearOfTheLinuxDesktop wrote:
does anybody seriously believes those words? the bad things I hear about vista are almost exclusively coming from people who actually tried to use it and got rid of it after months of tribulation.

Funnily, the bad things I hear about Vista are primarily from people who read about it in a magazine or on a blog and "Wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole."

Breeze
I'am i.

"86% of vista users would recommend it to a friend"

yeah i believe it

except developer

Maddus Mattus
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda

I'm a developer, I would recommend it,..

phreaks

I wouldn't recomend Vista for use to my family or non-tech friends because they all have computers that are like 2 or 3 years old.

Have you tried to run vista on a Single Core HT pc with 1 Gb of memory and a 256 gfx card?

The experience sux.

I wouldn't recommend it, at all; unless they were buying a brand new PC as well.

RoyalSchrubber
One. How many time travellers does it take to change a lightbulb?

Maddus Mattus wrote:
I'm a developer, I would recommend it,..

me too.

brian.shapiro
things go on as always

phreaks wrote:
I wouldn't recomend Vista for use to my family or non-tech friends because they all have computers that are like 2 or 3 years old.

Have you tried to run vista on a Single Core HT pc with 1 Gb of memory and a 256 gfx card?

The experience sux.

I wouldn't recommend it, at all; unless they were buying a brand new PC as well.

I have a computer thats 2 or 3 years old, and its a single core with a 256 gfx card, the only difference is it has 2gb ram

It runs perfect

phreaks

brian.shapiro wrote:

phreaks wrote: I wouldn't recomend Vista for use to my family or non-tech friends because they all have computers that are like 2 or 3 years old.

Have you tried to run vista on a Single Core HT pc with 1 Gb of memory and a 256 gfx card?

The experience sux.

I wouldn't recommend it, at all; unless they were buying a brand new PC as well.

I have a computer thats 2 or 3 years old, and its a single core with a 256 gfx card, the only difference is it has 2gb ram

It runs perfect

The 2 older machines I tried it on did not yeild the same results.

* 3.0 Ghz with Hyper Threading, 1.5 Gb Memory, SATA HDD
- Performance rating: abysmal

* 1.2 Ghz Pentium with 1 Gb Memory
- Performance Rating: If you like to wait, this setup is for you.

My quad core desktop runs vista pretty and the performance is great.

It's also great on my Core 2 Duo laptop

brian.shapiro
things go on as always

phreaks wrote:

The 2 older machines I tried it on did not yeild the same results.

* 3.0 Ghz with Hyper Threading, 1.5 Gb Memory, SATA HDD
- Performance rating: abysmal

* 1.2 Ghz Pentium with 1 Gb Memory
- Performance Rating: If you like to wait, this setup is for you.

My quad core desktop runs vista pretty and the performance is great.

It's also great on my Core 2 Duo laptop

My Windows Experience Index rating is low --its brought down by my graphics card-- so if you go to that control panel it shows 2.4, but everything runs perfectly, not slow at all.

As far as I know, it should run fine on your setups too, so I don't know what the problem is