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I'm having miserable performance. Vista takes ages to load, and even then the system will not infrequently "freeze" (turn a zonked-out white and spin internal w

I'm having miserable performance. Vista takes ages to load, and even then the system will not infrequently "freeze" (turn a zonked-out white and spin internal wheels) while I'm doing nothing more complex than surf the Internet. It takes about a minute after systems load until the cable modem is usable. In terms of basic usability, Vista is hands-down the worst-performing OS I've ever had. I am genuinely curious how a company like Microsoft could let a stinker like this out the door. I would downgrade if I could, but have a dual-boot machine and - frankly - don't want to risk letting anything coming out of Redmond screw around with my harddrive and systems while at least 50% (the Ubuntu portion I use most of the time) is the most powerful and stable system I've ever used. The only reason I'm ever in Vista is for audio editing work, so it is tolerable in that sense too.

trezor 18y ago
That might be, but it's still 100% irrelevant. I'm not debating the merits of Vista as a OS, but the validity of these statistics outside the scope in which they were gathered. If you, a techie, which admits despite hating Vista still having it installed, what are the chances the average Joe's have gone trough with a downgrade? Until we get actual, real numbers, I see no point in discussing the failure or success of Vista from a sales point of view.
- noonespecial 18y ago
  I got Vista with a laptop and I couldn't use it either, but what I've noticed is that most normal users get Vista with new PC's and they are so used to spyware/malware/adware making their computer work like crap that they never even notice how much slower vista is. They just expect their computer to take 4 minutes to start IE and thrash the HDD the entire time its on. They don't switch back to XP. It never even occurs to them. Most of them have a fairly dim idea about even the difference between Vista and XP. Its just another computer that doesn't work very well. Like all of the other computers they've had.

trezor 18y ago

That might be, but it's still 100% irrelevant. I'm not debating the merits of Vista as a OS, but the validity of these statistics outside the scope in which they were gathered. If you, a techie, which admits despite hating Vista still having it installed, what are the chances the average Joe's have gone trough with a downgrade? Until we get actual, real numbers, I see no point in discussing the failure or success of Vista from a sales point of view.

noonespecial 18y ago
I got Vista with a laptop and I couldn't use it either, but what I've noticed is that most normal users get Vista with new PC's and they are so used to spyware/malware/adware making their computer work like crap that they never even notice how much slower vista is. They just expect their computer to take 4 minutes to start IE and thrash the HDD the entire time its on. They don't switch back to XP. It never even occurs to them. Most of them have a fairly dim idea about even the difference between Vista and XP. Its just another computer that doesn't work very well. Like all of the other computers they've had.