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I can clearly articulate why I don't like vista: 1. Its most annoying feature in my opinion (and its activated by default) is that it caches all your most rece
by light3 18y ago
I can clearly articulate why I don't like vista:
1. Its most annoying feature in my opinion (and its activated by default) is that it caches all your most recently most programs into memory every time your computer starts. Not only do I think this is a stupid feature, it takes ages to complete, hordes the memory, makes your hdd go nuts, and most of all I had no idea wtf was happening with my new computer.
2. file-indexing is activated by default - Microsoft didn't seem to realize this in conjunction with feature #1 makes your computer go crazy every time you start Vista. And it took me a while to figure out what was going on. My new computer which i bought 2 month ago was thus brought to a crawl every time I started up.
3. Interface is pretty but not intuitive, a lot of stuff is moved around for no apparent reason, eg you now have to wade through 3 or 4 links just go get to your network connection properties, which is something that should be more readily accessible to the average user.
I know these are all options which can be modified, but hell it took me a good few hours to figure out, and it annoyed me like crazy. Windows XP in comparison just seems faster, simpler and gets the job done quicker.
- aneesh 18y ago> "3. Interface is pretty but not intuitive, " Agreed, but there's one feature that more than overcomes that -- you can just open up the Start menu and actually type the name of the program/utility/file you want. So just type "Network" and it'll autocomplete. Personally, I almost never do any clicking in the Start Menu.
- ivank 18y agoLaunchy can do this on XP or Vista, and it's a few magnitudes faster.
- ensignavenger 18y agoI've tried Launchy on my XP installation, but find it doesn't work as fast, or as intuitively, as Vista (on the same machine). Of course, that was just my experience on one machine.
- ivank 18y agoI like Vista for the proper 64-bit support, the user-level driver model, and the improved file dialogs. But I agree with all your points. Server 2008 has SuperFetch off by default, but then again it's not Microsoft's desktop offering.
- ensignavenger 18y agoI figured Hacker News readers could articulate their Vista qualms much better than average :) 1 and 2 are easily fixed, if you don't like the features. I am curious, though- I don't have a newer MAC- doesn't OSX have a desktop search feature that indexes files automatically, too? Perhaps it is better implemented? I haven't had any problems with it on my Vista install, but obviously some people have.