I'm sick of the XP fanboys.
Posted 08-03-08 at 07:48 AM by Brutuz
Usually I don't post blogs or the like, but I'm sick of this and I have to vent.
Have you ever noticed in threads about DX10, Vista, XP's EOL, DX11, etc, that you get people who say that the only upgrade in Vista is that its newer, and of course, they have "used" it with SP1, So here's the real dig from someone who runs Ubuntu 8.04 x86 and Vista, not to mention, got XP to work as fast as 98 on a computer with 198Mb RAM, a Tseng Labs 2Mb Graphics Card and a Cyrix PR150 CPU, which wasn't easy, believe me.
So, anyway, Here's some common myths about Vista, and what I say about them.
Vista uses RAM less efficiently than XP/Vista uses more RAM than XP.
The truth of the matter is that Vista uses RAM much better than XP, and although it does use more RAM, it uses it in the same sense as F@H using CPU cycles, if another app wants some of the CPU/RAM, it gives it up, and only uses what its allowed to use.
Vista runs slower than XP does.
When I upgraded to Vista Ultimate SP1 from XP Home SP3, I didn't notice any difference in speeds at all, in fact, quite a few tasks got faster, Firefox started quicker, Games seem to get more FPS (Guitar Hero III used to lag on the Japan stage with a crowd for me and on Vista it doesn't.) and the system is generally snappier with loading programs.
Vista crashes a lot.
Although I recognise that everyone has different experiences, my one with Vista is the following; I've had 4 crashes, one due to nVidia drivers (I had to install the 9x drivers before I could download the latest), and the other 3 due to OC instability, and each and every time, its came back up phenomenally well, no data loss, Setting changes, automatic roll-back, etc.
UAC.
People hate UAC and don't use Vista because of it, then go and praise XP, What I say to them is: "Disable it." If you don't like it, Disable it, I'm sure we've all had to disable stuff in XP, 98, 2000, etc, so why is everyone getting so pissy about having to disable a pathetically annoying thing in Vista?
I'm thinking of starting a Vista challenge, Go get a copy of Vista, I don't care how, and I don't want to know how, but just get one, install it and SP1, run a few games, Programs, use it for a month.
Then tell me if Vista is still worse than XP.
Have you ever noticed in threads about DX10, Vista, XP's EOL, DX11, etc, that you get people who say that the only upgrade in Vista is that its newer, and of course, they have "used" it with SP1, So here's the real dig from someone who runs Ubuntu 8.04 x86 and Vista, not to mention, got XP to work as fast as 98 on a computer with 198Mb RAM, a Tseng Labs 2Mb Graphics Card and a Cyrix PR150 CPU, which wasn't easy, believe me.
So, anyway, Here's some common myths about Vista, and what I say about them.
Vista uses RAM less efficiently than XP/Vista uses more RAM than XP.
The truth of the matter is that Vista uses RAM much better than XP, and although it does use more RAM, it uses it in the same sense as F@H using CPU cycles, if another app wants some of the CPU/RAM, it gives it up, and only uses what its allowed to use.
Vista runs slower than XP does.
When I upgraded to Vista Ultimate SP1 from XP Home SP3, I didn't notice any difference in speeds at all, in fact, quite a few tasks got faster, Firefox started quicker, Games seem to get more FPS (Guitar Hero III used to lag on the Japan stage with a crowd for me and on Vista it doesn't.) and the system is generally snappier with loading programs.
Vista crashes a lot.
Although I recognise that everyone has different experiences, my one with Vista is the following; I've had 4 crashes, one due to nVidia drivers (I had to install the 9x drivers before I could download the latest), and the other 3 due to OC instability, and each and every time, its came back up phenomenally well, no data loss, Setting changes, automatic roll-back, etc.
UAC.
People hate UAC and don't use Vista because of it, then go and praise XP, What I say to them is: "Disable it." If you don't like it, Disable it, I'm sure we've all had to disable stuff in XP, 98, 2000, etc, so why is everyone getting so pissy about having to disable a pathetically annoying thing in Vista?
I'm thinking of starting a Vista challenge, Go get a copy of Vista, I don't care how, and I don't want to know how, but just get one, install it and SP1, run a few games, Programs, use it for a month.
Then tell me if Vista is still worse than XP.
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Is it just me or it just just the smart Aussie students who are able to recognize that Vista isn't actually that bad?
Microsoft cope with so much $H!TPosted 08-03-08 at 09:23 AM by Danylu
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I've been personally using Vista myself after the longest time believing these myths. Once I got it up and running (which wasn't easy and was almost about to give up), I started liking it to the point that I can't go back to XP on my own free will.Posted 08-06-08 at 12:06 AM by legoman786
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I agree, you should do a Vista challenge
Posted 08-07-08 at 11:39 AM by wierdo124
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They already did a challenge with the whole Mojave thing, and it proves that people that are giving it bad rep in fact know nothing about it. They couldn't even recognize it was Vista while they were using it... now that's just sad.
I have never had any crashes in my Vista other than a bad OC. I notice though that my boot up may be a bit slower than XP, but when its up, its faster than XP is at loading everything so it evens it out.
But yeah, I agree with you 100%.Posted 08-09-08 at 10:32 AM by Semper Fidelis
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Let the XP lovers love them some XP; how does that affect your vista experience?Posted 08-09-08 at 08:45 PM by The Hundred Gunner
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As long as they quit trolling every Vista thread they post in, I could care less that they run XP. I love Vista, I will always use it, and I will always reccomend it to anyone with the hardware to run it. That's not much hardware, either.Posted 08-10-08 at 07:39 AM by TestECull 
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The Hundred Gunner: If they shut up about "OMG VISTA SUCKS WHO USES IT" in threads about Vista, maybe I wouldn't have posted this, its like how you get some PC users going into threads about Macs/OS X and saying it sucks, you don't like it when that happens, right?Posted 08-10-08 at 08:50 AM by Brutuz
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Well, I was very open to Vista and have never posted in a Vista or XP thread stating my opinion on either, but I am not pleased with my Vista experience. It came preloaded on my ThinkPad T61 (32 bit), but has given me nothing but trouble. Start up is ages longer than my current XP machine and stability is, for sure, much worse. I have heard that a clean install on this laptop will help performance, so i should try that before I pass judgement.
Requesting specific examples of times when Vista faultered on my machine is not reasonable. You just get a feel for these things. I do know that the number of BSODs I got on my Vista laptop through the past two semesters was at least equal to the number of BSODs I've had on my desktop since I made it in 2005. Generally, Vista has been running much more slowly. I'm about to install Vista 64 on my desktop, so we'll see if that can change my mind.
Please, stop assuming that everyone who puts down Vista has an agenda. In my experience, working with 0Vista has not been as pleasant as working with XP.Posted 08-11-08 at 05:53 PM by Muftobration
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Muftobration: As I said, there are people like you with a legitimate reason to not like Vista, or have had BSODs, etc and are willing to try it a bit more, but then there's the people who sit there, hear from friends that Vista sucks, and has problems with RAM usage, etc, I was mainly trying to disprove that stuff.Posted 08-11-08 at 10:42 PM by Brutuz
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Well Vista wasn't Good when alot of people should have waited for a bit to try it but I have to say,Since SP1 Vista has run FLAWLESSLY on my laptop!! So well that I'm going to try it on my other system!I think people forget that XP wasn't much better until SP1 and even then it took a Bit to iron out all the little Bugs! I'm hoping Windows 7 is going to be worth waiting for and if so ,then I'm going to make the jump! So C'mon MS ,Do it Right the 1st time this time with v7!Posted 09-24-08 at 01:03 PM by Bandit_44
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Good blog! I personally run Vista SP1 for everyday use, and XP SP3 for a few games like BF2 and Oblivion. Other than that I use Vista, and it works greatPosted 10-06-08 at 05:23 AM by go4life
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Bandit_44: They've changed very little in terms of large changes in Windows 7 from Vista, they will this time because it's pretty much another Vista SP.Posted 08-25-09 at 09:31 AM by Brutuz
