What is all the fuss about Vista? PC-Mag just rated it the biggest disappointment of the year. They explained that it isn’t all bad, but they said it was disappointing because some things were thrown out at the end. Sure, that is disappointing, but I wouldn’t say it is the most disappointing product this year. I would say the first consumer Quad Core AMD chips are more disappointing than Vista… and those are only disappointing because they don’t yet have a chip that beats the Intel Quad Core chips. Come on, stop picking so much on Vista. People even pick a lot on Leopard. Here, I will defend both. Keep in mind, I don’t like Microsoft’s crap, I just put up with it.
It took me until the end of August to finally accept that Vista isn’t that bad and actually go ahead and install it on my computer. I did so on a random day. I just took all important data off my system, formatted my drives, setup a RAID-0, and went on my way hoping it would work, just trying it out, you know? Well, I can honestly say that I was very pleasantly surprised. Why? Everything worked except for my motherboards proprietary hardware monitoring, which isn’t a big deal. I am most surprised that I had no issues because my motherboards manufacture, ABit, does not support this board anymore, much less putting 64-bit Vista on it. So the fact that I installed 64-bit Vista, got the plain nForce4 drivers from nvidia, and didn’t have a single problem, not even any issues having it installed on the nvidia RAID, was a big surprise and it was very much so welcomed.
To this day, the only problem I have had is the lack of hardware monitoring and an issue with a cracked game that I tried to install that was old and the crack was unable to work (I believe it was potentially a 16-bit crack, so it’s understandable). And my system works perfectly fine with Aero. It runs very quickly. The only complaint I have with it is that Vista does really take a LOT of RAM to run smoothly, but I have enough to keep it going. I’m not going to say that Vista is 100% perfect, because it isn’t. But nothing is. Just lay off it, geez. I guess one major flaw with it in my book is its inability to properly handle dual screens. It is actually very embarrassing. Ask me more about that if you want details.
Now… Leopard is a different boat, of course. Now, I think it may have been over hyped by new Apple adopters– the people that bought an iPhone because it was the rad thing to do then decided to also get an Apple computer because they wanted a new computer… not knowing anything about computers in the first place. Then hearing that Apple has a new operating system coming out, they had to be very excited because they are now all about Apple.
Leopard isn’t perfect. I know that. There is one very annoying bug I wish they would fix, but at this point, they just haven’t. But I wouldn’t call it a huge disappointment, either. Overall I’m pleased with it, very pleased. Sure, there are a few things that I hate about it, but overall there is no major issue with it. People are just pissed off because it didn’t really add that much to the front end. It actually did, but then again, not all that much, I agree. But a lot of the stuff they made better was underneath the hood. Such as CoreAnimation, and 64-bit from the ground up, better memory management (that’s a very noticeable improvement), and better networking support. All these things I think out weigh the few cases where people got BSODs after upgrading from their hacked up Mac OS X Tiger. I simply did a completely clean install and I had no issues at all.
I guess you should keep in mind that I’m a more advanced computer user and I tweak things and in general have good karma when it comes to computers. Yes, I turned off that completely stupid UAC in Vista disabled a bunch of stupid services. I also did a safe amount of tweaking in Leopard. I also tweak stuff in my servers and my phone. It’s just what I do. But because I know what I’m doing, I think I have far less issues with stupid stuff that people can’t stand in Vista. Just fix it if you don’t like it, geez. Don’t bash it. Just take your frustrations out on a printer or something.
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