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Well, the final nail in my old computer's coffin came a few days ago. After locking up a few times when I tried to play a game, I decided to reboot to try fixing whatever was wrong. And it wouldn't boot, not past the Windows Loading screen. It had happened before, and I fixed it by reinstalling Windows, but this time I decided I might as well just get that new computer I've been wanting. Don't worry, all my data is safe. I could boot just fine in Safe Mode or with a Slax Linux boot disk, but Linux is not for me (sorry, Genete! )

So I got my new computer with Vista, brazenly ignoring all the warnings about overly restrictive DRM and games not working and other things which sounded so much like urban legends they just strained credibility to the breaking point.

So I've spent the past few days getting acquainted with the new OS and reinstalling all my usual software. Naturally, one of the first ones I tried was Anime Studio, and I'm happy to say that Vista runs it flawlessly, as well as everything else I've installed so far, including games, alternative media players and codecs, and all sorts of freeware and other unsigned and un-Microsoft-certified stuff. Where's the problem? Haven't found any yet. Some interface annoyances, sure, but I expect eventually there'll be a TweakUI utility to turn off some of the unnecessary glitter.

I've also installed my old hard drive as a slave in the new computer, so data transfer's no trouble either. Moved over all my existing e-mail and Firefox cookies, extensions, bookmarks as well.

Good to know. Thanks for sharing.

Hm, have you already tested importing/exporting of video and DVD? I'd be quite interested in how Vista handles your own content in a typical workflow, like rendering scenes, backing up those video files on DVD, then re-import them for fiurther use ...

Yes, I was able to import and export video to DVD and back again without a single complaint from Vista, which I did to see if those rumours were true. The MPEG-2 VOBs happily took up residence on my hard drive, and they converted to AVI with no trouble at all.

Funny, I been going through the same sort of thing with my old AlienWare computer so I up graded to a new dual core 64 hp with vista. So far I have loaded only two programs and both don’t work with Vista. Vista is like a bad dream. The one program is Magix Movie Edit Pro. The program takes two to three minutes to load using Vista. Compare to 7 to 10 seconds with XP. Then once loaded it runs like a slow dog and the worst of it all, the program can’t find the DVD burners. I have two in the machine. XP had no problem. The other program is Activsion’s The Movies. So I right now I have a 800 dollar box that I keep tripping over.

Along with not running XP programs the Vista has all sorts of anti spyware and virus protection that I do not want. Out of the 12 computers I have, only one computer that goes on the internet and it never gets to be part of my home network.

Vista is go to be the worst OS since IBM’s OS 2.

Dale

That is strange, because it runs all my games (HL2, San Andreas, Silent Hill, WoW, The Ship, even free stuff like Scorched3D, Neverball, etc.) and software, even stuff that was WinNT-only, and runs them all faster than my old one. I don't have those particular ones you mention, though. And I did have trouble initially getting the computer to see my other computers on the network, but I found that to be the fault of the Norton Internet Security that came with the computer, not Vista's fault. Once I configured the computer properly, it's not obstrusive at all.

There is one thing that I'm having some trouble with still, and that's getting the contents of large text files (>3MB) to show up in the content search.

Touched read:

http://badvista.fsf.org/what-s-wrong-wi ... dows-vista

I have a feeling that Vista will not let me use my program because I could copy DVD by using it and it haven’t been verified by Microsoft and Non DRM

Dale

Then why does it let me copy DVDs and use un-Microsoft-verified software?

I don't know why. whould you like to trade computers? Vista is so large I just milght have a bad copy.

Dale

I would not like to trade computers.

I think vista runs most software the same as it did with XP.

Here's a question. Is vista more geared up towards the 64bit market?

I have done some research work in Vista and HD. THere are very very big issues with Vista. To post all the facts will talk hoiurs but in a nutshell, Vista requires handshaking from the hardware before it plays HD out. If that anti-piracy handshaking doe not satisfy the DRM system, it downgrades the video quality. On the studio system we had, we had spent big bucks importing HD complient video cards, capable of outputting HDTV in real time from Finalcut HD. Vista will not play HD on that card because it is pre-DRM.

In addition, Vista is using 50% of the system resorces to run the DRM verification 30 TIMES A SECOND! It is astonishly bad. It means that Vista will not run on many current PC systems because they simply don't have the overheads.

Personally, I bought a high spec PC so I could use it. I did not buy it for Microsoft to use the speed.

Sorry, Vista is banned on my network. Instead Ubunu is running on ny new machine - the speed and ease of installation/network configuartion was/is a pleasure. Vista will not talk to other microsoft machines on the network - Ubuntu will.

Rant over.

Rhoel.

Tell you what -- I'll believe it when I experience it myself (regarding the HD issues). Because that's the only thing I don't have personal experience with. Until then, I will have strong doubt, because everything negative that anyone has said about Vista, here and elsewhere, has been completely contrary to my own tests and experience. And I can't realistically believe that I have the only magical Vista system that actually does everything I tell it to do, promptly and without question.

Regarding the networking, perhaps I wasn't clear enough in my earlier post, but Vista has no problem communicating with my other computers, which run XP and Win2K. After removing Norton's stranglehold on it (not Microsoft's), it worked automatically. And I consider networks to be voodoo.

I can run an HD test any time I get ahold of an HD display. I have an HD capable card, but currently no display to make use of it.

Odds are 5 to 1 in favour of Rhoel's experience ...