HAY GUYS

evilboris · Local time: Jun 12, 2006, 02:18 AM

I dunno about the bootloader but it just gave me an option to select between XP and Vista the last time I tried (first public beta, a year ago).

Dunno about you guys, but I'm looking forward to Vista. The GUI looks awesome, it's the first time I'm actually considering switching from the Windows Classic theme. That and the drop of GDI and using d3d acceleration is a reason in itself to use it. I don't care about the new features much, as long as it can be stripped down to work the way I'm used to it I'm OK.
I am do concerned about over bloating the OS though. Windows XP is a bitch to strip down to basic levels, but I've seen it running fine on a 300mhz non-intel cpu. I hope that Vista will not have that much bloat loaded on it, but I doubt it will happen. That and over-DRMing it are my only concerns.

If I had spare HD space I would've already installed the latest beta. My sad sad 160 gigster has been running on 5gb free space (spanning over 3 volumes) since months by now. I really need a new hdd and I think I'll be able to get a huge one soon (if I won't find some kickass CPU bundle anyway).

Jam it back in, in the dark.

evilboris · Local time: Sep 4, 2006, 08:08 PM

OK, RC1 is out. Anyone knows if its worth downloading now, or should I wait till its available for public testing? I heard somewhere that it's better to wait because of the activation crap.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

evilboris · Local time: Jan 23, 2007, 08:46 PM

Originally Posted by LiquidAcid

Only difference to XP is the eye candy value and I really don't need that.

The thing is that between XP and 2k, the eye candy bonus was minimal at best, and highly dependant on the users taste (personally I think the Luna theme of XP is disgustingly ugly). The difference between 2k/XP and Vista however, is quite huge - other then the basic concept, the UI is completely different.

Personally I like Vista. I'm going to test run it with the rc2 key crack once I have some free time. I'm tired of XP and I'm looking for something new, without breaking 99% of my well configured apps in the process (the reason why I don't use Linux - it just can't do what I want it to do).
Based on my experience with Vista RC2, the only thing I'll need is a driver for my mouse that can configure buttons 3 4 and 5 for custom functions (3 and 4 - center click, 5 - CTRL). The previous driver/software I used did not run in Vista RC2. I doubt its fixed in the final version, so I may need to search for a mouse hotkey app. It's kind of annoying that Vista has billions of features even allowing you to use the OS without a physical keyboards, but theres not a damn mouse button config window in it.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.