Who here is happy with Vista?

**tsb** · June 22nd, 2006

Originally Posted by forrestcupp

Honestly, though, people. How many of you really rely on your computer to watch DVD's. I don't know about you, but I prefer to watch my movies on a big TV with loud surround sound and a comfortable chair. The only DVD's I play on my computer are my 2 year old boy's kids movies because we don't want him hogging the TV all the time.

Ever hear of HTPCs?

**KingBahamut** · June 22nd, 2006

Having tested it for a month I can say, Ill never run it (not that I run any MSFT OS) in any capacity.

**forrestcupp** · June 22nd, 2006

Originally Posted by tsb

Ever hear of HTPCs?

How many people actually have them?

**mstlyevil** · June 22nd, 2006

Here is my take on Vista. To be fair it is Beta so I am reserving my final judgement for the final release.

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost...2&postcount=32

For those of you that think the eye candy is better in Vista than Compiz let me let you in on a little secret. Aero has a lot of polish but is technically limited to the features it has now. There is no plugin system to add new or better effects and it is a huge resource hog.

Compiz on the other hand is actually very light on the resources and is expandable by creating new plugins. Compiz is also capable of much better effects than Aero by a mile. I have been using Compiz since the week it was released for public testing and the improvements have been swift and awe inspiring. Aero will be behind Compiz in 07 when it is released.

Also the people who really seem excited about Vista in this thread have only commented that it looks prettier. I don't care how pretty a operating system is when it makes my Athlon64 3200 with 1 gig of quality RAM and a 7600GT perform worse than my 1.2 ghz celly with onboard Intel graphics and 256 ram running XP. That is unacceptable and it will cause Vista to flop if they do not fix it before final release.

**darkhatter** · June 22nd, 2006

to the poster above that isn't a surprise to me. Open source programs are always more flexible then closed source. Thanks to my good friends at Microsoft I'm going to be running this O.S. regardless of how bad it is, at least we know that they are improving

**syxbit** · June 22nd, 2006

i think you'll find a fair amount of users watch dvd's on their PC
i for one (like many college students) don't have a TV.
i have a nice 24" wide LCD monitor thoug

(dell 2407fpw)

**graigsmith** · June 22nd, 2006

Yep, it is. I'm in no way willing to embrace it by supporting a company, who in tandem with the RIAA, wants to use it to restrict my rights to my fair-use of media which I have legally acquired.
There is no benevolent intention with DRM.
Vista will never see the light of day in my household

This is EXACTLY how i feel. Someone told me a long time ago that microsoft was big brother. I diddn't exactly like microsoft, but at least i trusted them. Now i don't trust them, just as they don't trust their own customers. They put monitoring systems on your computer, and copy protections. "Trusted" computing will give control to "trusted" entities (corporations). It makes it sound like something that is made for the end user, ie, you can run things that you trust, keeping bad things off your computer. But it's the other way around. *They* will decide what *YOU* will trust, and what you wont trust. Therefore if they decide that there is a "security" problem with mp3 files, then they can use trusted computing simply not trust any mp3 file rendering your whole collection of mp3's useless.