What's wrong with Vista?
 

I just wanted to ask all these computer peoples what is wrong with Windows Vista. My laptop came with it and runs fine. People are always badmouthing Vista so I wanted to know what horrible problems I haven't encountered yet.

1- Too slow for no good reason
2- Too heavy for no good reason
3- It's just a prettier XP, but with less compatibility

4 - Giant security holes. oh yes, not just some of the old ones, brand spanking news ones.
5 - Yeah one heck of a beast. The reason that your laptop is running fine was that it was pre-specced for it I suspect.
6 - Oh you do not want to get me started on the blasted confirmation prompts.

7 - One CD key per copy. One. Yeah so let's just forget it if your computer gets a really bad virus and you have to reformat in response, which happened to my girlfriend and she now runs with XP.
8 - I hope they're happy with Halo 2 PC, because it can't run a fuckin thing besides that on Vista.

9 - completely unnecessary. They couldn't just fix XP?

10 - It's a Microsoft product.

11 - Even more unwanted eyes in your PC telling everthing to Bill.

12 - It uninstalls programs it doesn't like.

13 - It's a Microsoft product.
14 - It's barely been out, do you think they fixed all the bugs yet?

15 - Computer makers will ship it with 512mb of RAM even though the minimum required to make it even the least bit manageable is 1GB.

16 - Highly un-navigable.

17 - I've already been asked "what's wrong with my computer?" by two people and when I went to investigate I found no other problem on their systems then the fact that they run Vista.

18 - You've got to really know what you're doing to get anything out of it. Vista runs amazingly on my PC, possibly even better than XP did, but only after weeks of tweaking and changing settings. Most people don't either have the know-how or the patience to get Vista to work the way it should.

Isn't there some kind of inane DRM 'feature' in there, as well?

19- Drivers. Companies can't get drivers for their hardware on Vista because it's difficult to manage and Microsoft isn't helping them. A lot of big name drivers like Nvida just don't work.

It's not so much one DRM feature as a whole goddamn mob of DRMs all slamming their dicks into your computer in some kind of fuck-frenzied electronic gang-rape while Bill Gates watches on a camera masturbating furiously, but yeah.

20- and this is big for me, many computers cant possibly run it. To get the RAM and graphics card needed to run it and run it well would fry your average mother board.

I'm sorry, but this one is just wrong. All you need is a motherboard capable of supporting a graphics card (either AGP or PCI-E) and 2 GB of RAM. That comprises a shocking majority of motherboards, including several between the price of $50-$75. My mobo only cost about $55 on Newegg, and it runs it like a breeze. So unless you're calling the 'average' motherboard something that can only support 512 MB of RAM, no AGP or PCI-E slot, and shit for integrated graphics (which you'd actually have to work to find), Vista will not and never fry it.

Sure a lot of older computers can't run it, but thats generally due to a slow processor/lack of RAM/lack of video card more than an unworthy mobo.

In fact, I'd wager that I could put together a computer that could run Vista and run it well for under $500.

That is still beside the point, the massive invasion of privacy and the lack of support makes it easier to put together your own linux box.

The fact that their license agreement basically says "we own your computer and there's nothing you can do to try to stop us!" I personally had enough of a problem with XP's Genuine Advantage bullcrap without buying a system based on it.

I did look it up, and your typical modern motherboard maxes at 2 gigs, and not many people have a graphics card at that level and you would be suprised how many motherboards like a AGP. I think pushing the RAM alone to its max is asking too much. And take it from me, burning out a motherboard is not something you want to do.

Yes you probably could build a computer to run vista, but 90% of people buy them pre-made and un-upgraded. So if your computer is two or three years old you dont have a prayer of running it.

You're arguing something completely different now. You said earlier that the average motherboard COULDN'T run the RAM or video card needed for Vista, when clearly any motherboard over $40 could. Now you're saying not many people HAVE the RAM or the video card needed for Vista. Sure. A lot of people don't. But thats because they don't have the RAM or the video card, not because their motherboard isn't good enough.

And no, 2GB of RAM will not burn out a motherboard. Even if it is the maximum memory supported (and many support 4 and 8GB, more so than do 2GB), utilizing that full 2GB does not hurt it. It only hurts it if you use higher latencies than are recommended.

I didn't see any motherboard that supports 8, atleast not one that supports AGP

I never said supports 8GB and supports AGP. I simply said supports 8GB, most of which support PCI-E x16. And guess what, most video cards are PCI-E x16!!! And PCI-Ex16 video cards are always CHEAPER than their AGP counterparts.

Newegg lists 189 different socket 775 Intel motherboards that support 8 GB and 69 socket AM2 that support 8 GB of RAM.

Newegg also lists only 2 out of 150 AMD based motherboards that aren't capable of using a video card and at least 2 GB of RAM, and only 8 out of 250 Intel based boards.

In other words, out of 400 motherboards on Newegg, only 10 of them are incapable of supporting the hardware needed to run Vista well. 10. 1/40. 2.5%.

Hardly the average motherboard, wouldn't you say?

If you want to argue that not everybody has the hardware needed for Vista, thats fine, but the average motherboard is not even remotely in danger of being fried. Dislike Vista all you want, but to say that your motherboard is in danger of being fried is not an issue with Vista. Not even close. In fact, you can't show me a single case where a motherboard was fried to the sole fault of Vista. If somebody put in a video card that fried the motherboard, its because their PSU is only a 300W generic brand and they needed a better one which would have been listed on the reqs for the video card to begin with. Get that? Its an issue with your RAM or your PSU or your CPU or whatever else, and if your system is so old that it can't support the RAM or CPU or video neccessary for Vista, XP probably doesn't run all that amazingly either.

You can bash Vista enough without making baseless claims and accusations with which you are totally misinformed about.