If you have Vista and XP have you fully switched over yet?

[Nvidiaguy07]

Ive been keeping Vista x64 and xp x86 both on my computer for some time now and i used to use both. For at least a month now i havent even touched my xp partition and i before that i was using it very seldomly. So have u moved on yet? or are you waiting for the new windows to come out?

 

[theblackbox]

OS X is my main os, then vista 64. i really like vista 64, runs really well on my machine.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Been using Vista Ultimate 64 bit for 10 months now (Used Vista Home Premium 32 bit for 5 months prior till I got a free upgrade through the Feedback program).

Just recently installed an XP Pro virtual machine on the Vista Machine because the college insists on using Visual Studio 2005 rather than 2008 for its programming courses, and vista *really* doesn't like 2005. Other than that I've been using Vista solely. (Not counting Linux VM on our server for web server duties).

 

[mugs]

I got a free copy of Vista from MS when it first came out. Used it for 3 months, switched back to XP, and haven't felt the need to go back to Vista yet.

 

[Cabages]

Thinking I will switch back to XP from Ultimate 64.

I have 4gb of ram, but none of the applications (games mainly) I use really need all of it. I also find general vista performance to be slower than xp, I have problems with my logitech drivers in vista, and I just dont see any reason for me to stick with vista.

So no, havent switched, and unless there is some application that needs 4gb of ram, I wont.

 

[theblackbox]

Originally posted by: Cabages
Thinking I will switch back to XP from Ultimate 64.

I have 4gb of ram, but none of the applications (games mainly) I use really need all of it. I also find general vista performance to be slower than xp, I have problems with my logitech drivers in vista, and I just dont see any reason for me to stick with vista.

So no, havent switched, and unless there is some application that needs 4gb of ram, I wont.

i've sen the opposite, vista 64 is faster then xp on my machine. plus, it takes advantage of my hardware.

 

[Nvidiaguy07]

To me they seem about the same speed but i just like the new look of Vista. Plus it takes advantage of my 4GB of ram even though its rarely used like someone mentioned.

Im thinking about just completely removing XP from my system all together. good idea?

 

[vshah]

on the desktop, i had vista, but now i dual boot to use xp for games. things like cod4, cod5, fallout3, world at war, supreme commander etc. are all playable under xp but not under vista :-/

i use only vista on the laptop though

 

[Born2bwire]

I've got Vista and Ubuntu on my laptop. After using Vista I decided I would keep it and not put on XP Pro. These days the only time I log into my linux partition is when I forget to tell the boot loader to boot Vista.

 

[theblackbox]

Originally posted by: vshah
on the desktop, i had vista, but now i dual boot to use xp for games. things like cod4, cod5, fallout3, world at war, supreme commander etc. are all playable under xp but not under vista :-/

i use only vista on the laptop though

huh? i play cod4, cod5, supreme commander (which is awesome under vista), l4d, dead space, C&C3 and several other games. I don't know what you are talking about but they all play really well on vista 64 for me.
supreme commander even more so since it runs great on multiple cpu's.

 

[ribbon13]

Server 2008 FTW

 

[novasatori]

was using xp64 but needed to reformat and it was suggested to try out vista/2008

once I used em, there was no going back, aero and the smoothness of the OS overall is enough for me to say cya XP

fwiw I use Server 2008, but yeah, same thing really, but.. not.

 

[Blayze]

I've been using Vista as my main OS since August.

 

[txrandom]

Just switched backed to Vista. Once disabling UAC and going to the classic Windows look and feel, it feels like XP (with classic Windows look and feel of course).

 

[pcslookout]

No

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: ribbon13
Server 2008 FTW

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[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: txrandom
Just switched backed to Vista. Once disabling UAC and going to the classic Windows look and feel, it feels like XP (with classic Windows look and feel of course).

Yeah, the only thing that annoyed me was the UAC but once I took the ten minutes to figure out how to set it to the way I want I haven't had any complaints. Well one, I keep wanting to type "sudo" when I forget to use my command prompt shortcut that launches as an administrator.

 

[dbk]

i'm on socket A so yeah, win xp for me

 

[SlitheryDee]

I used vista for a few months when it was still pretty buggy and switched back to XP pro. I got tired of waiting for my usually snappy computer to finish doing stuff and the "are you sure you want to..." type messages it presented me for practically everything I wanted to do. I eventually figured out how to disable that, but I couldn't do anything about the noticeably poorer performance I was seeing relative to XP. I hear they've fixed most of my major gripes, and my rig has a few more horses under the hood now. I may give it another try for DX10 if nothing else.

 

[Chronoshock]

Switched to Vista x64 with my new computer. After disabling UAC it's more or less fine. The only two issue I had are that I can't remove that stupid "Burn" icon in file explorer (despite trying a number of registry fixes that were supposed to remove it) and there were a couple of applications which were incompatible (sandboxie and the drivers for a game controller adapter)

 

[Shawn]

Vista on all of my computers except for my MSI Wind.

edit: This thread inspired me to put Vista on my MSI Wind as well.

 

[Baked]

Vista for almost everything. XP maybe once a week for BT.

 

[Kadarin]

On one hand I have a new PC with a Q9550 and 4GB memory running Vista 64, and on the other I have an Athlon 4400+ box with 3GB memory running XP. The XP box feels faster.

 

[EvilYoda]

I'm waiting to buy a new 1.5TB HD, so once I do that I think I'll install Vista (sigh) on it and hope everything turns out well.

 

[Canai]

I would be using Vista buuuut MicroSUCKSASS decided to make Vista read the EDID out of the monitor and override ANY user settings that differed from the EDID. It's hardcoded into the OS so it's not fixable. Period. GREAT FUCKING DESICION GUYS!!!!!! :roll:

I happen to use a Sony HDTV that shipped with the wrong values in its EDID. Never again will I buy a Sony product - they want almost $400 to fix THEIR FUCKING ERROR. Fuck that.

So yeah, I'd really like to use Vista, but since some asshat decided to hardcode a retarded piece of shit bit of code, I can't.