On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Dario Bonazza<[email protected]> wrote: > Thomas Bohn wrote: > >> P. J. Alling wrote: >> >> an XP machine with twice the speed and twice current >> memory >> >> Microsoft will also drop the support for XP soon or they >> already dropped >> the support. >> >> Maybe you need something different. > > Speaking of Windows, I'm running XP since 2003 or so without a glitch, while > I've only seen struggle, pain and desperation among those trying Vista. > Seriously, I cannot tell Vista apart from sado-maso practice. > > Dario >
I'm on my fourth Vista machine since launch (2 Laptops, 1 desktop, 1 subnotebook), 3 of which are still being used (although the Desktop is now my main Linux server). It's been FAR less hassle than XP ever was, especially with regards to drivers since it requires the new WDM drivers which are more stable. The issues with Vista's rep mostly come down to poor driver support at launch, the (mistaken) idea that you can actually successfully upgrade a consumer OS, a few badly chosen default settings on MS's part (UAC and ReadyBoost in particular) and people trying it on marginal hardware. In reality Vista has caused far less problems than XP did at launch. The main reason it's been unsuccessful was that it was a painful launch replacing a mature OS that most were content with whereas XP's launch was a painful launch replacing a disastrously bad OS (Windows Me, the hands-down worst version of Windows by a very large margin). -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
