Just took a look at Vista...

[Mr. Electric Wizard]

Running on a new (~2.8 ghz) Gateway, and it looks sweet, but man is it SLOOOOOOOOW!
Also, I couldn't help but think that it looks whole lot like gnome with 3ddesktop running and other eyecandy.

The funniest part about it is that when people start loading it on their computers, they'll probably go back to the Classic Windows 2000 performance look!:D

Anyways, I thought it was par for the course in regards to "bloaty":D

[mstlyevil]

Running on a new (~2.8 ghz) Gateway, and it looks sweet, but man is it SLOOOOOOOOW!
Also, I couldn't help but think that it looks whole lot like gnome with 3ddesktop running and other eyecandy.

The funniest part about it is that when people start loading it on their computers, they'll probably go back to the Classic Windows 2000 performance look!:D

Anyways, I thought it was par for the course in regards to "bloaty":D

I suspect you will need 2 gigs of RAM and a dual core processor to get it to run fast. The downside to great eye candy is having to put up with a performance hit.

[maruchan]

The funniest part about it is that when people start loading it on their computers, they'll probably go back to the Classic Windows 2000 performance look!

I can't understand why they won't just redo the classic look n' feel. I mean, I'm sure Vista's version of classic is a bit better, I wouldn't want my "stripped down" Vista to look *anything* like classic windows. And there's no way I'd run it with the Aero look for more than 2 weeks, tops. All resource hogs get the chop.

[Mr. Electric Wizard]

It just blew me away at how incredibly slow it was running on a brand new PC...
Totally Amazing!

[rattaro]

Remember that Betas typically run slower than final releases. This is due to lack of optimizations as well as bug tracking threads. This is often true for many Linux distros as well. We'll have to wait and see to know how it actually behaves. Previews typically just show the graphics, not the speed.

[DigitalDuality]

All the criticisms from those who have downloaded Vista (i'm guessing pirate developer's copies) really doesn't amount to much. It's an incomplete OS at this point and still has alot of work that is currently going into it. So yeah, it is going to run pretty slow.

But it's MS, i'm not paying for their security hole ridden crappy software with embedded apps you can't remove.

[Mr. Electric Wizard]

All the criticisms from those who have downloaded Vista (i'm guessing pirate developer's copies) really doesn't amount to much. It's an incomplete OS at this point and still has alot of work that is currently going into it. So yeah, it is going to run pretty slow.

But it's MS, i'm not paying for their security hole ridden crappy software with embedded apps you can't remove.

You can download it straight from Microsoft.com

[dabear]

You can download it straight from Microsoft.com
If you have a beta account and have been granted beta-testing of Vista that's true, but most haven't.

[Rackerz]

You can download it straight from Microsoft.com
I'd like to know how thats possible, I had a look at the latest build 5270. It was fast for me. AMD 2500+ 1.25GB RAM. Ran pretty fast.

[etc]

I'd like to know how thats possible, I had a look at the latest build 5270. It was fast for me. AMD 2500+ 1.25GB RAM. Ran pretty fast.
Though an MSDN Subscription

[Lord Illidan]

I'd like to know how thats possible, I had a look at the latest build 5270. It was fast for me. AMD 2500+ 1.25GB RAM. Ran pretty fast.

Not everybody has that RAM/CPU.
Speed is relative.

[Rackerz]

Not everybody has that RAM/CPU.
Speed is relative.

I forgot to mention that a few people have higher spec machines. My machine is very outdated compared with alot of others.

Also MSDN subscriptions costs like $1000 last time I looked :O

[beercz]

Vista = Viruses, Intrusion, Spyware, Trojans, Adware

I'm sticking to Ubuntu Linux :-)

[poofyhairguy]

I got some Aeroness going on upon my own desktop today:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/gallery/showimage.php?i=1734&original=1&c=2

[BSDFreak]

Running on a new (~2.8 ghz) Gateway, and it looks sweet, but man is it SLOOOOOOOOW!
Also, I couldn't help but think that it looks whole lot like gnome with 3ddesktop running and other eyecandy.

The funniest part about it is that when people start loading it on their computers, they'll probably go back to the Classic Windows 2000 performance look!:D

Anyways, I thought it was par for the course in regards to "bloaty":D

It's the same for every development version, all debugging is enabled, try running FreeBSD development without disabling the debugging, it's slow as hell, way slower than Linux, then try it with the debugging disabled, it's a lot faster than Linux then.

I have a copy of the latest beta (legally) and i'll reserve judgement until it's released since i remember how awfully slow XP was in beta and how fast it got in release.

[vayu]

I got some Aeroness going on upon my own desktop today:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/gallery/showimage.php?i=1734&original=1&c=2

How did you do that in GNOME?

[chiefofthejojos]

How did you do that in GNOME?

Take a look at the howto here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=115974