freak_power Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 I did. Having SLI 8800GTX, i don't want to wait till the end of this year for drivers from Nvidia and Creative in order to get full performance. If I do so it will be wasted huge of money. Vista is not ready, nor companies are ready with the drivers. A lot of things bothers me in Vista...simply OS is crappy out of the box. You have to do tweaking and adjustment in order to get everything as should be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giga Veteran Posted February 5, 2007 Veteran Share Posted February 5, 2007 *raises hand* It just wasn't my thing--didn't really add anything new that I liked (other than Texas Hold'em. :p) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chavo Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 How many people installed a virgin untweaked XP from 2001 with no service packs or upgrades. Thank you, come again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PT 13 Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 Me!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitebread Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 Aside from the look of Vista, I don't particularly like it.... I am seriously considering switching back. I know I won't be putting Vista on my laptop (at least not for a while). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obsolete_power Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 Well I think the biggest issue people are having is with the damn lazy manufacturers who would rather sit on their ass eating pizza pops rather than getting the device drivers out there now that people are spending upwards of $550 for the new operating system. They bought their hardware, bought the new OS now the least there lazy bastards can do is work day and night so they can satisfy their customers. I think they should forget about family and home life for a month and release proper, stable drivers already!! *Cough* nvidia *Cough*. I hate nvidia right now. They released new drivers with working SLi for their new 8800 series and left the other people in the dust saying a driver will be released in the future.....Sons of bitches, burn in hell nvidia! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJLunacy Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 I haven't I am pleased so far so good with running Vista on my laptop and am in the process of migrating my desktop to vista for good. Any problems I have ran into are due to lazy companies that have had plenty of time to get drivers working. So some of my older hardware is unsupported and some high end hardware doesn't work due to drivers. Other then that I am pleased with Vista thus far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koolslacker Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 I have been using for several months and I am not going back to XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiGhTfast Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 Gone back about 4 times, i probably try vista every month and hate it just isnt worth the hassle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lingwo Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 I was smart and never even went to Vista. I'll wait till Service Pack 1 is released and see if that helps with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitalsoft Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 im currently pending, have made the switch but i also installed xp on a small partition just incase, but at the moment it seems vista is winning for me, some games are faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kristian Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 XP is gone from both my machines and will never come back. From now on it is Vista all the way here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insomniac9 Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 There's no way I'm switching back. I really like vista so far apart from some of the niggles with certain programs like nero not working properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sn4k36 Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 (edited) I switched back over to windows xp mce 2005, just until i get myself some more ram.. But i still use vista at work 5 days a week.. :) Edit: I got no problems with my ATI x700 video, and i don't got any problems with the Soundblaster Audgy 4 soundcard or even my wintv pvr-150 mce kit.. :) Edited February 5, 2007 by Sn4k36 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark_st Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 I did. Having SLI 8800GTX, i don't want to wait till the end of this year for drivers from Nvidia and Creative in order to get full performance. If I do so it will be wasted huge of money. Vista is not ready, nor companies are ready with the drivers. A lot of things bothers me in Vista...simply OS is crappy out of the box. You have to do tweaking and adjustment in order to get everything as should be. Staying with Vista. Havent had any problems including BF2142, BF2, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahmz Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 (edited) Shouldn't there be a poll? I'm dual booting, but I use XP. Edited February 5, 2007 by Ahmz055 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malechai Veteran Posted February 5, 2007 Veteran Share Posted February 5, 2007 I'm undecided. Staying on Vista so far but may switch back until Creative gets their Audigy 2 drivers final and ALchemy worked out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sn4k36 Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 There's no way I'm switching back. I really like vista so far apart from some of the niggles with certain programs like nero not working properly. Why do you need nero anyways? vista comes with build in cd/dvd burning software.. But if i had to choose burning software i just use VSO software.. which isn't bulkie, like nero Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmc777 Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 You'd have to drag me back kicking and screaming! I'm staying with Vista. :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berto Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 I switched back to Pro. Only reason is due to my lack of funds for another gig of ram. Other than that Vista is cool and all, after I disable much of the eye candy (windows fading in and out etc...) Aero is cool. The flip, most useless app ever. They should have made something much more like on a Mac when it scales all open windows down to a fair size on the screen. Anyways, Pro for now and Vista down the road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mordkanin Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 Never! XP's shell just seems so primitive by comparison to Vista's. I find it clumsy and hard to use after Vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obsolete_power Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 I have said bye-bye to XP for good and I have been using Vista since Microsoft sent it out to beta testers despite all the driver issues. I think it is a great operating system with alot of potential so we'll have to wait and see. Now regarding the security holes.....I have gotten used to the fact that windows has never been entirely safe and it will never be. I don't think an operating system should be put down because some boob discovers a hole that would affect maybe 0l.1% of the Vista users.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notuptome2004 Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 I switched back to Pro. Only reason is due to my lack of funds for another gig of ram. Other than that Vista is cool and all, after I disable much of the eye candy (windows fading in and out etc...) Aero is cool. The flip, most useless app ever. They should have made something much more like on a Mac when it scales all open windows down to a fair size on the screen.Anyways, Pro for now and Vista down the road. you do realize vistas Aero has no to little impact on performance so shutting that stuff down wont really make things any faster per say. pearsonly i love the new interface and i love the technologies that went in to making it possible and that run under windows vista, as for the Flip 3d i find it very useful easy to access my Apps i have open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kainz Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 (edited) I was close to going back to XP Media Center 2005 because Nebula Electronics (DigiTV) have yet to release Vista software for their freeview tuners. Luckily a friend persuaded me to try some BDA drivers in Vista, which allows it to work with Vista media center. I'm more then happy now, and await some decent Audigy 2 drivers from creative (did I just say decent?). Vista is far more smoother and nippier to use then XP. File transfer/install operations are much noticeably faster too. Edited February 5, 2007 by Kainz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidnightDevil Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 Im sticking with XP till things get better. I believe when SP1 comes out as well as stable drivers (I have a nvidia 6600GT and a creative audigy) I might switch permanently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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