all i can say is "ms vista sucks"
stay with xp sp2 for a while - at least the next 12 months
or, move to linux... why is it that maybe 60% of pc uers dont migrate to linux
ask yourself a question: WHAT DO I DO ON MY PC? 99% of your answers will be YES to linux
GO LINUX!!!!
allround ms sucks, its really time for me to go 4 a mac or my dream is a linux certified notebook - goto have audio/video editing and have a decent image editing suite.
its all ready available for me - in a MAC...
will a linux laptop cum?
i can only dream
The reasons I use Windows instead of Linux:
1) I installed Suse Linx 10.2, first boot the computer freezes. Second boot I get to actually log in and then the PC restarts as soon as I see the desktop. I try to completely reinstall, same results. Move to my second PC this time instead of a log in screen I get a garbled mess at which point the PC is also frozen, Oh well, must be Suse Linux then Right? Move on to the next distro:
2) I move to Fedora Core. My AMD XP1800+ which ran Windows like a dream seems sluggish and unresponsive so I turn of all unneeded services and install all the manufacturer specific "Optimized drivers" (aka nVidia drivers and such) with absolutely 0% performance increase. I also tried other tweaks and things,everything apart from a Kernel re-compile. I only installed required packages. Apart from this I had a entire SERIES of problems where programs crash with absolutely NO error messages(BEFORE and AFTER the modifications, I tried several reinstalls of the Distro, always the same results). Once the program crashes you don't even have a clue as to why (because most don't have error messages), I tried to debug the problem but could only solve some of them.
3) I move to Ubuntu, which is by FAR the most stable release. It impressively installs as quick as Windows (which the other distro's couldn't muster, they took freakishly long for basic installs) and it works on first boot (WOWIE!). I didn't need to install a single driver! But it's still more sluggish than a Windows XP setup (far more sluggish) and when I try to play my first movie in Totem. It just crashes with a error to which I can find no fixes on the Internet. Oh well install MPlayer, seems it can't play all of the files, some of my older mpeg files just crash the player once again with no error message (The files played on WMP and MPC in Windows). I later found out the reason Totem crashes every single time I try to start it is because it REQUIRES a soundcard, I have no idea how to make it not require one!
4) I install Windows and apart from Driver installs I need do NOTHING more for me to be able to do everything I want to do. No meddling with Bash, no hacking hacking hacking, it just works.
Once Linux is actually stable(as in I can install it on any of my PC on which Windows works and it'll work 100% without me needing to modify or hack something) I'll start using it, to me it just seems very unreliable as a desktop system.
The only reason I actually use linux is because the degree I study requires that I use Gnu C++ (which I don't much like either) but I must admit Valgrind is quite a excellent utility and I'd definitely use it to test all my C++ code.
There certainly must be a reason most people use Windows instead of Linux even though it costs money?
