Originally posted by pineapple42well there are loads of people who use a design dating back to 65, some of them even in this thread.
funny! now why would i wish to sign a petition for an operating system based on a design from approximately 1993?
...not that I care in the slightest what happens to XP...
Originally posted by uzlessThe new Service Pack 1 for Vista has shown an improvement in performance of between 1 and 2 percent.
shouldn't base you opinion on old information.
Vista gets improved every day, and every day it gets that much better than XP. Most of the issues that occured were when Vista first got released. They been fixed now.
Doesn't anyone remember how crappy XP was before its SP1 was released?? It was only after SP2 came out that it became a sollid OS.
But ...[text shortened]... w years. In 2 years everyone who paid for XP will be wishing they had bought Vista instead.
Service Pack 3 for XP has shown improvements in performance benchmarks of up to 10 percent.
In benchmark tests done after the service packs Vista is currently about half as fast as XP. And, Microsoft has just added another five years of support for XP.
Finally. How long ago was Vista released? With all of the previous OS releases over the last two decades, the new Microsoft OS quickly replaces the old one which becomes obsolete within a matter of months. XP is a hell of a lot faster than Vista, and, it's still alive and kicking, which says a lot about Vista. You could probably stick with XP until Microsoft releases Vista's successor.
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Originally posted by hopscotch... And when that successor finally arrives, learn from Microsoft's history and hold off until service pack 2 fixes ~most~ of the major bugs in it.
The new Service Pack 1 for Vista has shown an improvement in performance of between 1 and 2 percent.
Service Pack 3 for XP has shown improvements in performance benchmarks of up to 10 percent.
In benchmark tests done after the service packs Vista is currently about half as fast as XP. And, Microsoft has just added another five years of lot about Vista. You could probably stick with XP until Microsoft releases Vista's successor.
Is Vista going to be the new Windoze 2000?
Edit - Bring back DOS5 - at least the damned thing worked.
Edit - Eventually.
Originally posted by hopscotchbtw, have you tried 95 or 3.4 on modern hardware? they are lightning fast.
The new Service Pack 1 for Vista has shown an improvement in performance of between 1 and 2 percent.
Service Pack 3 for XP has shown improvements in performance benchmarks of up to 10 percent.
In benchmark tests done after the service packs Vista is currently about half as fast as XP. And, Microsoft has just added another five years of ...[text shortened]... lot about Vista. You could probably stick with XP until Microsoft releases Vista's successor.
and that's really the thing with software engineering: software is designed (deliberately) to use most of the resources of the hardware it's targeted to. other factors are developing time (which is why nothing is optimized at first) and maintaining the product (something like 80% of the costs in any software project). bugs are direct consequence of the massive scale of modern operation systems. if unix was created now, it would have just as much bugs as any other new product. but it's 40 years old, and most of the old problems have been fixed ages ago. that's just how it goes. it takes a long time to perfect a new product, so it becomes a compromise between incorporating modern technologies and perfecting the old. in a way you could say that the more modern a piece of software is, the more problems it has. 🙂
but like I've said many times before, migrating from XP to vista was the first time EVER when things actually got better for me from the get go. there naturally are some annoyances, but on the whole I've been absolutely surprised how much better everything has become. it never crashes, never freezes, and everything just works a little better than on XP. no installation problems, boots faster etc...
xp being twice as fast as vista?? well not on my computers. the only thing that's slower in vista is graphics, and it's not that bad. with new hardware (mine are several years old) I doubt it's even visible.
the finnish version of SP1 hasn't come out yet, so I can't say anything about that...
but in the end, if you're happy with XP, why change? migration like updates always bring some unforeseen problems...
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Windows 98 & XP were the best to me. NT, 2000, Me are just crap. Vista is the worst, requires permission for everything, won't even let you install some programs, even as admin.
Vista uses a lot of RAM, and if you want to use the 3D, it will take even more, not to mention that your computer will be slow as hell.
After buying my new laptop, it took me a couple of hours to realize vista is a piece of junk, I COMPLETELY UNINSTALLED VISTA AND INSTALLED LINUX on it, & I am very happy with LINUX, I'll go back to vista MAYBE after they release a couple or 3rd Service Packs
peace out
Originally posted by SupermanIt definitely is. I have it (in Gnome GUI - looks great) for two years now and my computer hasn't crashed since I uninstalled XP. (Well, my CPU fan died two weeks ago, but that's not because of Linux.)
I am using Ubuntu Linux, I think it is great for being a free software
My dad also uses Linux on his machine but on the movie server we have FreeBSD. Haven't used it often, but as much as I've read and heard, it's great.