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Originally posted by riahc4
I just hate it when people say that XP is better. Thats a stupid statement. I have had a way better experience with Vista than XP.
Agreed.
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In fact It seems as though bashing Vista seems to be the "popular" thing to do. I hit up digg.com and not a day goes by that essentially leads to the conclusion that linux > OSX > Vista along with Microsoft sucking, oh and let's not forget OpenSource is the way to go...
The funny thing is that people where this bitchy when windows xp first came into the market also. I mean the other day some customer came into the store I work at and asked me if I can install a certain printer on his machine which is running windows 98. I told him that I can't and that he is better off buying a new machine and guess what his reponse was... "I heard that Vista sucks and is very unstable and that everything screws up with it"... guess what my response was "Apparently not everything since your printer seems to work with vista".
And then, there are customers who deliberately want to downgrade from an OEM machine that is built for Vista to XP...
My experience with with Vista has been very pleasant, granted switching from XP, it took a bit of getting used to, but in the end, It's the little things that I found that are very useful and add to the experience as a whole (Eg. In Vista, if you click on a file to rename it, it only highlights the name and not the extension).
A while back, my hdd gave way (by the way, what's the deal with newer hdd's and them crapping out so often...) and I figured that I'd try out linux and see what all the fuss is about. I tried Mandriva and Ubuntu... both by the way I had a shitty time with... I kept both of them on my system for 2 months each and couldn't stand them. Constant hangs, lack of driver support etc. Other than the fact that they were a bit lighter on my battery, I would say that it was an unpleasant experience on the whole.
Now I'm back on Vista and couldn't be happier. Granted Microsoft might have made some wrong choices along with way with Vista, but I think that people need to understand that just because you upgrade to a new OS doesn't mean that it is automatically going to run better/ provide a better experience overall. For example, running XP on a windows 98 OEM machine isn't going to provide that much betterment in performance, if any.
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Just my $0.02.
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