Does Vista Like Me?!?!?

[flibberdipper]

Everybody rips on vista for...well...being a piece of shit, to put it bluntly. I'm running it on my ASUS Eee PC 1005HA with the Windows 7 drivers, and it runs fine. Does Vista like me, or am I just EXTREMELY lucky?

[M-ursu]

lucky, but, because you should upgrade your OS.

[Classics]

I loved vista, it was perfect in my opinion. Windows XP behaviour with aero glass, perfection. At the time my hardware was lacking and did lagg because of aero, but with my hardware now, I'd happily run Vista. 

[Kuzma]

I <3 vista too

[AndyCapets]

How can one love Vista ??

[crunzaty]

Windows Vista is good NOW. But it was broken until Windows 7 came out. (1-3 months after release)

 

I have like 3 unused vista keys laying somewhere. but Windows 7 is so much better so i don't really want to go back to Vista now.

[flibberdipper]

lucky, but, because you should upgrade your OS.

When XP goes out (which is the main OS on it) I'll throw Windows 8.1 on it to see how it runs, and if I don't like it I'll put Ubuntu or throw Elementary OS on it.

[flibberdipper]

How can one love Vista ??

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I'll post a pic of it later. It doesn't look that bad.

[AndyCapets]

I'll post a pic of it later. It doesn't look that bad.

Don't worry, not making fun of anyone here, I've used it for a year, and you get used to it I admit it, but loving it...

And yes, you're probably lucky haha!

[flibberdipper]

Don't worry, not making fun of anyone here, I've used it for a year, and you get used to it I admit it, but loving it...

And yes, you're probably lucky haha!

But yet, I tried it on one of the hyper-threaded 2.8GHz P4's with a X1650 Pro AGP 256MB, and it was overclocked to 3624MHz (about 3.6GHz) and it ran slower than my Atom N270 OC'd from 1600MHz (1.6GHz on the nose) to 1902MHz (1.9GHz) with GMA 945 graphics OC'd from 166MHz to 400MHz.  :blink:  :rolleyes:  

[Cad6500]

I skipped vista entirely, so I dont know how good or bad it was, but definitely more people say its bad

[legopc]

Everybody rips on vista for...well...being a piece of shit, to put it bluntly. I'm running it on my ASUS Eee PC 1005HA with the Windows 7 drivers, and it runs fine. Does Vista like me, or am I just EXTREMELY lucky?

man you are EXTRMELY lucky you realy are 

[Frix]

I was lucky enough to completely avoid Windows Vista and am going to upgrade to 8 from 7 very soon, free college os ftw

[Guest Gazzer96]

I never had problems with Vista myself when I had it.

[Guest Gazzer96]

Windows Vista is good NOW. But it was broken until Windows 7 came out. (1-3 months after release)

 

I have like 3 unused vista keys laying somewhere. but Windows 7 is so much better so i don't really want to go back to Vista now.

I agree that Windows 7 is better, but Windows Vista never caused any issues for me.

[Blake]

ITT: people Sheep flogging a dead horse.

 

OP, there is nothing wrong with vista, infact without it we would not have our x86_64 drivers that we love. The only reasons for the bad rap where:

1. ~7 years on system requirements, it was a large change from windows XP, people don't like change and when they do they like the change small, this is why every other release is only a few years apart, so the mimums are bumbed up gradually. This issue caused the "oh no! my system is slow since i decided not to spend the $50 and get 2GB or RAM that is recommended, when it says just there on the box recommended! Vista sucks"

 

2. New driver model. Micorsoft refused to sign drivers unless there was a 64bit variant that was of equal quality. this feature was going to be introduced in XP, but the manufacturers cried, MS caved. with vista MS did not cave, manufacturers where expecting MS to caave in, and decided not to develop 64bit drivers. hence for a solid 6-12months every got bluescreens as the drivers where bad, and i mean really bad. Everyone gives AMD a bad time for their drivers? what they forget to tell you is that MS's own data showed ~45% of all bluescreens where caused by nVidias mess of a driver.

 

Keep these in mind, there was nothing wrong with vista, it was your manufacturers who where at fault.