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Im probably going ot try vista when it comes out, Though i doubdt ill use it for long, If it's gonna use as much juice as they say it's gonna use.

You don't necessarily have to pay, it depends on the game.


I don't think windows is more user friendly. If you asked me, they're practically the same for the normal users. Most distros come with all your basic programs that you'll need and there's no hassle with a console, unless you want to install something of course (it's all written quite clearly in the readme file though and you just need to type one, maybe two copy paste commands).

And of course you don't need all the hassle of antivirus or firewalls.


Try a live cd of ubuntu or something, and it will probably even look better, along with being just as easy to use and maintain, and, imo, even easier. And then add to that the advantages over windows, and whoa. And dual booting is a snap if you want to play games

Windows has better game support, Though that's about the only thing i have to complain about, Sure you can run a few games with whine, But not all the good ones.

I said 1+ years. The reality is that I won't get it if I get a new computer and the won't sell it cheaper without Vista. The only thing I use XP for is games, and Vista will be worse for that at the moment because my graphics card won't suport dx10 and Vista's just extra overhead.

i will never use vista because its expensive a preffer linux a its xgl,that is not so dificcult to power of pc

Personally, I'll switch to Vista when Hell freezes over, mostly because of its *outrageous* system requirements. 15GB of hard drive space and a 256mb DX 9.0 as the *minimum* to run the new "Aero" GUI?! That's nuts, especially considering that it probably won't make you any more productive- it will just make things prettier and hog resources. I use Windows Classic on my XP and Fluxbox on my Linux, and those have all of the functionality I need with minimal bloat.

I can't because I don't have a good computer, but I wouldn't anyway.

I'll try it on my friend's laptop and then tell him to reinstall FreeBSD. It's not touching my computer.

A few notes, though. It seems awfully risky for MS, from my point of view, to produce such a memory-hog of an OS. Half of us on this forum probably either couldn't run it or couldn't run it productively, simply because our hardware isn't up to spec. The hardware side of computing is going to have to produce more powerful comsumer-level machines, and prices will inevitably have to lose the nice low number they've gotten to. On top of having to raise prices a bit to manufacture more Vista-able machines, big name PC manufacturers (i.e. Dell) are already suffering somewhat of a loss as consumer needs are sort of at a standstill. I read an article in Time a bit ago talking about how Dell had, for once in years, gone down in stock value, and also is being forced to put part of their market on-the-shelf, as opposed to their traditional order-to-specification model. So they way I see it, either hardware manufactuers are going to take a hit from having to keep up with Mircosoft's software, or Mircosoft's going to take a hit because hardware doesn't feel like keeping up at a cheap price.

And on top of that, although I did like the Office 07 Beta, I didn't find anything too great about Vista. It's all makeup, and I can do that to my Kubuntu machine with a few themes, Vista window decorations, transparency, and one or two free apps off the internet.

I can't remember who it was, but someone on this forum had a sig I really liked:

Failure is not an option; it comes bundled with your Microsoft products.

Couldn't be more true. I'm not going to use Windows 2000 with two layers of makeup and a few gadgets.

When my computer become SUPER Computer ...it won`t be very soon...it imposible for my configuration[current] to use something like this

Maybe after 1 year

I hope M$ will loose serious market share with Vista
Well M$ has a buget of a dosen billion dollars, so they can afford using Vista (if they do use it... )... but can the rest of the world? When Vista requires that ammount of resources as a high class game... how much ram, mhz and everything will remain to your games? You will have to search for your 3-4 year old game cds... total waste of time, energy and money (I love you M$, more more more, closer to the edge of failure, closer ).
I've used Windows 95, 98 and XP. I've switched to Linux (namely Kubuntu) on february, and now I am a proud and happy Kubuntu user. First, I was dualbooting, cuz I had many apps back in Windows. Slowly I begun discovering apps that replaced the commercial and windows ones. Than I used a "stripped" version of XP in VMware for a small number, but important apps (like Dreamweaver and Fireworks). Today, I don't boot to Windows any more (I still have a stripped version of XP installed on a 3 GB partition if I need it for something, but I doubt that...), and don't start Windows in VMware either, because Fireworks works almost flawlessly under Wine (I repeat, ALMOST), and I use Aptana and Kate for web editing.
Now that I understand Linux, and see it's magic and it's power, I don't understand why I didn't switch earlier... what a fool I was...
Everyone starts to notice Linux now, and hopefully it will spread. Support for it will expand, and quality apps and games will be ported to it sooner or later. I think Novell (referring to SUSE) and Canonical (referring to Ubuntu) do a great job in making Linux an option, meeting with other companies, and adding new support from big ones...
Bleed M$, BLEEEEED
Excuse me 4 my evilness towards M$... but it feels so good

I use Windows and Linux too, os i will test Vista but i don't think i will switch to it, 1G RAM for it to run jesus then i need to buy 1 G RAm more for the games. I just use windows because i am a gamer and not all games run under linux
Or why not switch to MAC

I'll probably switch in 1-2 years. I just recently purchased windows XP pro less than a year ago and I want to get some use out of my purchase.

I don't think there will really be a problem with the extreme system requirements for vista though. I watch newegg prices almost every-day and the prices are dropping rather quickly.

I hope all of you switch to VISTA, its gone be a new feast, why mircrosoft replaced good reliable code with new untested one?

debeaxcc wrote:I hope all of you switch to VISTA, its gone be a new feast, why mircrosoft replaced good relayble code with new untested one?

I didn't really understand that. Are you suggesting that Microsoft should not try to make windows be improved? All new code starts out as untested. I don't really get how you could create code that has been tested before you thought of it.