Well...I decided I have had enough of my vacation with Vista and decided to go home to good ole' Windows XP. While there are features in Vista that I will miss, such as the Media Center and mostly the Instant Search, being back on XP is already saving me tons of headaches and things just work. XP is much more responsive as well. Not to mention gaming performance is vastly superiour on XP.
While Vista is nice at first when you are "wowed" by the eye candy, after it wears off, you really dont have much of an upgrade at all. Just a fancy new skin with annoying confirmations that is a major system resource hog. It also seems to be explicitly designed for people who have never used a computer before, which really hurts power users like myself. Not to mention all the software and hardware that doesn't work with it. Vista didn't work, so I decided to upgrade to an OS that does. That OS is Windows XP.
Vista Pros
*Eye Candy
*Instant Search
*Media Center
Vista Cons
*UAC makes doing any system maintenance a headache
*Very little control over your system
*System designed for people who have never used a computer
*Major resource hog (approx 800MB RAM vs. 200 on XP)
*Most companies have yet to release drivers or updated software compatable with Vista
*Gaming is a nightmare
I will probably take another look at Vista after SP1 is released if it in fact does deliver. Hopefully MS will fix the problems so that this becomes a decent, worthwhile OS release. Until then though, its XP for me.
While Vista is nice at first when you are "wowed" by the eye candy, after it wears off, you really dont have much of an upgrade at all. Just a fancy new skin with annoying confirmations that is a major system resource hog. It also seems to be explicitly designed for people who have never used a computer before, which really hurts power users like myself. Not to mention all the software and hardware that doesn't work with it. Vista didn't work, so I decided to upgrade to an OS that does. That OS is Windows XP.
Vista Pros
*Eye Candy
*Instant Search
*Media Center
Vista Cons
*UAC makes doing any system maintenance a headache
*Very little control over your system
*System designed for people who have never used a computer
*Major resource hog (approx 800MB RAM vs. 200 on XP)
*Most companies have yet to release drivers or updated software compatable with Vista
*Gaming is a nightmare
I will probably take another look at Vista after SP1 is released if it in fact does deliver. Hopefully MS will fix the problems so that this becomes a decent, worthwhile OS release. Until then though, its XP for me.