Which operating system?

[undeterred]

I am buying a new computer at the end of the week. It comes with Vista. I've heard all the misery. I am a techie but we use XP at work and have never used Vista. If you were getting a new computer for home this week would you get Windows XP or Vista?

[WhollyHeretic]

1. If you are a tech who works in a Windows environment then it could be

good to get familiar with Vista.

[undeterred]

5. Those are my thoughts too

but I don't want to be a martyr about it. The first release of anything is usually crap.

I just spent 12 hours trying to install a $3500 piece of software on an engineers machine at work, and finally the vendor agreed with me to roll it back and let him get back to work. With an OS sometimes its good to wait till the first Service Pack is out.

[WhollyHeretic]

10. I'm going back and forth on whether or not to pick up Vista now for those same reasons

I do need to learn it but I'd probably put it on my secondary desktop. I don't know if I'd want the headache of a new Microsoft OS on my main computer. Then again it would be cheaper to just get Vista now.

[SPKrazy]

2. I Like XP

but I bought a new computer and I'm using Vista right now and have no complaints

it comes up fast and it is pretty intuitive and not a lot different that I've found than XP

:shrug:

I'm happy for now with the Vista and I was unsure about it.

[RevolutionaryActs]

3. I got a new computer last week with Vista

and so far so good. I actually like Vista quite a lot. :hi:

[undeterred]

4. Have you had any trouble loading programs onto it?

[RevolutionaryActs]

6. Nope, but I haven't done much with it either

Just normal functions, nothing special, and that's all worked fine. :shrug:

[Deja Q]

7. Get XP if possible...

The new GUI layout is bizarre considering Microsoft claims "ease of use" as a selling point - (Linux is easier to use than Vista's changes...)

Vista requires more horsepower - that's a joke. If PocketInformant (my PDA calendaring application) kept getting slower between release 1 and 6, they'd have gone under. And trust me, release 1 was atrociously slow... but they improved on it and added features as needed. They took time and care.

Can't say the same thing for Microsoft.

[undeterred]

8. Yeah I saw a thread here today that made me worry

and I wonder if its just a little soon. I can always put it on later- I can get a copy from work.

[Deja Q]

9. Get it now. Remember, XP has activation issues...

and to use any corporate key would be bad - especially if they disable it, Microsoft can trace.

Though if Microsoft stops supporting XP, it'd be nice if they released XP's code so people could still use it. Why be forced to upgrade when current hardware runs XP much faster than Vista, which inherently 'needs' faster hardware.

But by then, the 4rd successor to Vista will be out and we'll all have Vista2 by then...

[undeterred]

12. No, my supervisor said we are entitled to a home copy

of anything we use at work- so I wouldn't be sneaking it. I can bring it in to work and load XP. I might just order the computer with vista but if I get frustrated I'll take it to work and put XPSP2 on it.

[Deja Q]

16. Dang, that's cool!!!

Go for it, re: XP SP2. Definitely the better choice.

[undeterred]

17. Yeah, its because I'm basically in charge

of desktop support and there's only 3 of us on the support side. Its a nice perk. They'll let me install Microsoft Office on it too.

[begin_within]

11. Mac OS

You'll never look back.

[undeterred]

13. I'm too old to convert.

:shrug:

[begin_within]

15. Oh well. The new Macs can run both Mac OS and Windows.

[fla nocount]

18. Bullshit

You're giving us geezers a pretty grim future ya know. Push yourself away from your monitor and take a walk around the block..........then say the same thing again.

Go ahead, I double yelladog dare ya. Once upon a time, there was a girl....a good girl who gazed into your eyes as she kissed your little pink feet and had dreams for you. I guarantee that those dreams didn't include you getting too old to convert.

[fla nocount]

14. I'm not a techie, but I would partition the drive and use both

I've gone through 95, 98, Me and XP. I won't let go of XP until the architecture is no longer supported. Each "improvement" is another finger on the hand in your pocket. I had a machine running running 95 at 186 and it was bullet proof. Another machine running 98SE at 350 could ghost the net with nary an attack. Any "improvement" on the Windows OS is not going to be consumer friendly. While Windows is trying to make a dime on the OS while raping you for a dollar on dependency, Mac has been developing a product that is clearly worth your dollar.

There's clearly no way to completely ignore Windows if you want to exist and collaborate in this world but it can be a sometimes thing; I read The Christian Science Monitor once or twice a month for the same reason, It's a litmus test....I read the Onion for the same reason.