Quote: from The Dalai Lama at 12:30 pm on Dec. 12, 2007
To start, I'm basically a computer genius (Tongue in cheek). I've used DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, XP, Ubuntu, Fedora, and Kubuntu. When I paid my tuition to college I got a copy of Windows Vista for free so I decided to break down and upgrade from XP. I don't know wtf people are complaining about. Once you turn off the little security thing that asks you if you're sure you want to do every little thing, it's actually a really decent, stable system.
I've gotten one blue screen as a result of installing Zone Alarm but that's it. And it was really easy to rollback to the system configuration to fix it up. It also has this really neato thing where you can crop parts of the screen and automatically open it in an image viewer so you can save it. Unlike in XP where you have to print screen then save the picture manually.
Everything is really pretty and the colour themes are nifty and easy to manipulate. All in all, don't listen to people bash Windows Vista, especially if they've never used it. It's actually a really decent OS and if you get the chance to upgrade then I say go for it. It's not nearly as much of a system hog as I had anticipated either.
Most of all, don't listen to those stupid Mac commercials.
K, I'm bored and trying to avoid smoking so I just felt like letting everyone know. Bai.
The problem is, for a great deal of people, it doesn't work out that nicely, especially if they upgraded from XP.
It's really bad for businesses who might rely on a program that's incompatible with Vista as well (more common than you'd think). Moreover, if I want a pretty interface, Linux has everything Vista has and far more. I might also add that XP is about twice the speed of Vista in most relevant benchmarks.
That said, Mac commercials are stupid, that's pretty well known.
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