keeps crashing. thinking of installing XP over it until sp2 comes out.

I've had it since march and not 1 problem. maybe it's user error :laughs:

i am constantly trying to fix something on my father in law's vista.

Conflicts with half of his hardware, and all sorts of other minor but annoying glitches.

kept shutting off my monitor

i swear i got a bug and it was created deliberately
to do this ........ just to piss you off

oh and did it ever....

you cannot fix - what you cannot see... :wall:

keeps crashing. thinking of installing XP over it until sp2 comes out.

Come out with a "business" reason that you need XP and get a downgrade license to legally run XP - then pray you can find all of the right XP drivers and do a clean install...

i had problems with vista... and it turns out 99% of it was hardware related

if you have an nvidia graphics card? Get ATI
if you have one of those older style MS wireless keyboards/mice - upgrade

ive been running flawlessly for months now

there is no compelling reason to upgrade really, but... as long as your willing to upgrade your hardware a bit, youll be fine if you do.

brand new machine from dell. every time i slip a dvd (porno or otherwise) into the machine it keeps hanging up and crashing (no response to ctrl-alt-delete) so i hit the oh$hit button.

i am also dealing with a brand new dell box. software and hardware issues
conflicts with nvidia
conflicts with roxio
installer disappeared
etc...

Bought a monster rig for a couple thousand loaded with Vista and hated it.After three days I wiped vista out and reinstalled xp pro.Vista will be good in a year or two.I've worked on a few vista machines and really don't care for the menus.

Windows?Hell no.

Ubuntu 7.10.

when ubuntu gets me the FPS i want or can even run a game without an emulator.. then maybe ill look at it again... i have my laptop for my development work..

but if im going to use an OS where it just "works".. im going Mac... I so miss my mac..

Linux is still just for servers and hobbyists.

I bought a new xps from dell in Feb/Mar with vista and it has been working great. I imagine if you have an old machine or printer and want to load vista there may be some issues but otherwise it has been working flawlesslly for me. I like it...a lot better then xp IMO... on several fronts.
My only complaint is it is a memory hog. I have 4 gb and it takes away 1 gb just for the OS and only shows 3gb avaiable. When you load Photoshop and IndesignCS3 with all my calendar photos...it takes all the memory..It still seems to run fine without pausing (which is much better then the machine I used last year which ened up swapping at times)
Anyway I am pretty postivie on the product, esp with new hardware.

IMO if you get a new machine and it does not work, pack it up and send it back.

when ubuntu gets me the FPS i want or can even run a game without an emulator.. then maybe ill look at it again... i have my laptop for my development work..

but if im going to use an OS where it just "works".. im going Mac... I so miss my mac..

Linux is still just for servers and hobbyists.

mac isn't all that great for gaming either bri.

Linux is still just for servers and hobbyists.

well the United States Postal Service is all running on LINUX!

Unix is excellent for real computing. Most serious scientists, engineers and most supercomputers run on some form of UNIX. If they have a windows machine it is mostly for getting email or word to communicate with non-computing types. For this desktop stuff most people like the fluff of windows and the polished application choices. Mac is for school kids and humbags. It is too touch-feelie for serious computing but is easy to get the warm and fuzzies.

This is MO, as always, your mileage will vary.

had a few issues at first but they where driver related - nothing major

side note*** - the company I work for is in a partnership with Microsoft - hence the reason we jumped right to Vista. Believe me - if it was up to me we would have waited till Nov 2008.