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For the most part, Vista is usable (I use it at work). However, there are instinces (such as when you're running older hardware, or ...

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Jan 9 '09, 07:28

... some laptop hardware) where it's just terrible.

And as for the UI ... I hope that Windows 7 takes the good parts of the vista UI (the pretty colours) and lets go of the bad parts ("friendlier" views of the control panel and all that let-me-think-FOR-you bullshit).

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I've been running for about a year now. Haven't had any issues with it installed on new hardware. The only people I've seen with problems is on old - oblique Jan 9, 07:34
vista is fine *now*, but for the first few months I had it (until one of the big updates), it sucked donkey balls. buggy as all getup, and as - mafic Jan 9, 07:30 1
- and the exact same is true for Windows XP, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows 3.0 ... - Beryllium Jan 9, 07:32
all I can say, is that anyone discussion the win 7 beta and vista needs to look at xkcd -- (link) - tRuMaN Jan 9, 07:29 10
- ... uhm, yes, that's what I linked at the top of B2 -- nm - Beryllium Jan 9, 07:30 9
  - whatever. -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 9, 07:30 8
    - well, I guess 7 threads down isn't technically "the top", so fair enough. :) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 9, 07:31 7
      - whatever. I reading the BBs is for canadians. - tRuMaN Jan 9, 07:32 6
        
        I just dr. stalk to see if anyone mentioned me. - mafic Jan 9, 07:34 5
        
        mafic. - tRuMaN Jan 9, 07:34 4
        
        yeah, but I saw that. you're supposed to do it when I'm not here. -- nm - mafic Jan 9, 07:36 3
        
        but you could be lurking. you need to make a post telling us that you're not here. -- nm - zork Jan 9, 07:44
        
        the other thing you can do is use the RSS feed to see the most recent replies to your threads -- nm - Beryllium Jan 9, 07:38
        
        k -- nm - tRuMaN Jan 9, 07:36

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