Spezi said:
I have as yet not installed Vista on any of my machines but have played with it a bit on a friends computer.
I wasn't all that impressed and some of its behavior actually annoyed me.
Shades of Win 98 to XP here. Whenever MS introduce a new OS, there will be things people say they don't like. Mostly, it's because things are being done differently. Usually (but not always) changes are introduced to benefit the user and within a couple of weeks said user gets used to changes and actually starts to apreciate it.
There will always be those who are cynical of Microsoft's OS's and with good reason. There are many things I loathe about MS, particularly their nannying of users but most of all their bullying, secretive, monopolistic practices. Nothing wrong with getting rich but to mercilessly annihilate/buy out anything remotely resembling competition verges on obscene.
I don't judge MS too harshly on their security issues, their very success (wrongly or rightly gained) has made them a target for hackers and virus writers. Had Apple or Linux Distros enjoyed the same level of success no doubt they'd find themselves targets of the same disruption.
Spezi said:
I have been sitting back and reading all the threads pertaining to Vista in a number of places including a local forum.
In my area many techs won't even touch Vista. They tack on a surcharge in the hopes that the person will go elsewhere for service.
Soon there will be a lot of redundant computer techs then. I'm afraid their luddite head-in-the-sand attitude may eventually be their undoing. Like it or loathe it, if one chooses to make one's living fixing computers then one should embrace the new technology.
Common sense, really, that sneering at new things and ignoring it is, imo, a bit pathetic.
The tech who gets to the heart of Vista will be the one who makes the money.
spezi said:
I think that for me the writing is on the wall and in time I will migrate all my hardware over to PCLOS since it's gotten to the point where even types like me can figure out Linux and the repositories are getting better and better.
I've actually been reading a thread on a local forum today and basically the gist of it is that some feel that Microsoft has finally gotten to a point where it has shot itself in the foot.
I like PCLOS, it's my favourite Linux Distro. I'm happy using it for: Web browsing; Office; Media playback; Graphic Editing (Gimp) and that, so far is it. No doubt I will come to use it for audio editing, burning and video editing.
That just leaves games, and that is where Linux loses out.
So, the solution may be to use a Linux Box for everything but games. So what do we use for games then? A PC or a Console?
spezi said:
One fellow who has a mate working at Microsoft's X Box division said that old Bill is trying hard to keep PC and X Box separate wherein lies the problem.
Game makers need to appeal to as many buyers as possible and through the recent past those gamers with incentive from Intel and Microsoft have made use of the latest hardware and software to go to greater and greater heights.
Enter X Box and PS3 which has gamers no longer needing a state of the art PC and those with a PC being more or less forced to move on to DX10.
There is one big thing people overlook - consoles don't use a mouse and keyboard. They use gamepads. The mouse and keyboard give a much greater flexibility than a joypad, especially in fps's. And the quality of games on the PC is still superior. And a lot cheaper, actually, the price of Wii, X-Box & PS3 games is bang out of order. £45.00 for one game? Pffft!
I will agree to an extent about DX10 being forced upon us, again, something about Microsoft I despise, their bullying tactics. And there's only a handful of games that support DX10 anyway. And tbh I'm running Crysis and I couldn't see any difference in how it looks with DX10.
Call of Juarez did look a lot better though with DX10.
And on a personal note I actually hate Sony more than Microsoft so they can put their PS3 where the sun don't shine.
spezi said:
FWIW here's an exerpt from what I've been reading........
I won't reproduce that, it's there above to be read.
Cynical sneery dissing - that's easy to do, I could do that. But I don't - I take a detached look and comment on good and bad.
I've just this very minute discovered that Call Of Duty 2 Multiplayer won't work in Vista which has cheesed me off immensely but I still won't go back to XP on this machine imo that would be retrogressive.
Luckily I have a good machine running XP where I can play CoD2 MP. I also have a machine running Win 98 so I can play those games I like that don't run on XP.
I would sincerely love just to run a Linux Distro, it is becoming a helluva lot easier to use one although I must confess the console commands still leave me confused. Fortunately, most of the time they're not needed.
This is the real world, I can't be bothered to either learn something overly complicated (Linux) or sneer and be retro by dissing Vista, I just move along and use what's there to do what I want to do.
With an open mind.
There is good and there is bad about Vista but if I have to use Windows then I may as well have the latest version.
