However, the large difference is the idea the Windows Vista is more aimed for running games smoother, something WindowsXP had a very hard time doing, compairing it to Windows 2000. This is where the biggest improvement for Vista is, and I've confirmed that it is a very large difference. I've noticed a nice frame rate jump in some of the more powerful games like Age of Empires 3.
Come on, hah, be happy you bought a DVD drive! You actually should've had a DVD drive for about 5 years now but you know what they say, better to be late then never! By the way, DVD drives are cheap. So stop whining
And like, what? You say you bought Vista, but you just downloaded the beta! The beta!@#$! You say you took that in consideration, but still you wrote a review in which you say the OS sucks. So, in the end, you didn't take it in consideration at all. Tsk tsk.
You did do a dual boot, right? I mean, it would just be dumb to install a beta OS as a main OS without having a backup OS. If you want to mess with beta OSes you just have to use dual booting.
I have some extra comments about your review...
"First off, you need a DVD player to install it. You know why they did this? They did this because they're assholes, and they want you to spend lots of money."
They did that because that's the standard today. Have you possibly been living under a rock? Most games come out on DVDs now.
"First, the design is completely (and shamelessly) ripped from the Linux system"
The design has been like that since Win95, just more bloated now. Linux is minimalistic, and NOTHING like Vista. I think you don't mean Linux, but you mean Mac. Get your sources right.
"Second, it's so fucking slow, even though most of the programs aren't (like the main Windows Menu pops up in a jiffy, but when you right click on the desktop you have to move the mouse around to see the options)."
The speed is not an OS problem. OSes aren't built to run at a certain speed. Your system is the problem here, and keep in mind that it's a BETA and that you didn't buy this Vista copy at all.
Also, the Windows Start Menu is NOT a program! The Right Click menu is NOT a program! It's part of the Windows Shell, which is one program! Come on, basic knowledge.
What I find fantastic about Vista is that most of the ideas in it have been used by Apple for at least the last five years ("gadgets" on the desktop being the most criminal) - unfortunately, this adds fuel to the Mac fans' argument against it.
why the hell would someone say Windows Media Player 10 sucks, let alone 11
Because it does. It's one of the most appalling examples of unnecessary bloatware since RealPlayer - all I need from a media player is something that will actually play audio/video, not all the extras that come with it (and that's why I use Windows Media Classic).
I've never had any problems with WMP10/11 and as far as bloatware? I don't know what Windows Media Player you're installing, but it's not the official one, because when I install WMP10/11, all I get is WMP. I don't get anything else, especially if I don't check it. I will admit, they included URGE in WMP11, but #1, I highly doubt that could be considered bloatware, and #2, you can decide not to install it by simply unchecking it in the installer, rather then clicking Next, Next, Next, hoping that the installer will go by quickly.
What I find fantastic about Vista is that most of the ideas in it have been used by Apple for at least the last five years ("gadgets" on the desktop being the most criminal) - unfortunately, this adds fuel to the Mac fans' argument against it.
Honestly that doesn't mean shit. Advances in GUI philosophy should be universal, and regardless of who does something "first", most of the time it's been done first in a paper by a third-party researcher somewhere. If Mac fans think that means anything, it only goes to show how strong Apple's reality distortion fields are.
(As for Gadgets, I seem to remember getting a gay little app on a demo disk that did exactly the same thing back in the days of windows 98.)
I suppose that's true - if something works (and works well), then there's no reason that it shouldn't be in all operating systems possible. Being different isn't always good.
The thing is..er.. that I only play HL2 from time to time when it comes to high def games.
And every computer in my household got a DVD player, and two DVD burners, I just don't like the prices of graphics cards nowadays, other than the fact that they fall in price quickly.
For playing different media, VLC and Winamp 2 has often near to never failed me.
I don't like shiny polish in a GUI. i don't really care if its grey and bland. If I want it to look good, It would be an alternative rather than the default setting.
All in all: Vista looks nice. But that is all it does, that XP doesn't for me.
Floppy discs? are you insane? What about my tricked out C64?
You should get Vista on tapes.
Edit: OR you should be able to get the whole source and guidelines for the graphics printed out. in braille. Because you don't always got acess to a floppy/tape drive and might be blind.
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