70+% of the Responders in a Previous Poll Hate Vista I'm curious about the popluarity of alternatives....so I'm wondering what people think about the alternatives, or if they should exercise any alternatives... 1. Mac 2. Linux + Windowing Shell 3. XP Forever! 4. Stick to Vista Even Though I Hate It 5. I love Vista! Also, if you vote for #2, I'm intersted in which variant you like.
I like Vista, no real complaints, except the way it handles VMWare... If i had the money i would buy a macbook for school. always wanted one!
i recently spent about $2500 buying my new pc, then i spent about $1000 upgrading it, it came with vista, asked if i could downgrade but would void the warrant! lucky for me the whole system went into a permanent, unfixable loop as soon as i updated it (using genuine windows updates) i hate vista run xp !!!
Windows XP is much more stable than Vista is at the moment. Linux has poor program compatibility, thus why I don't use it.
XP Pro is my operating system of choice. I am not hatin' on Vista, but I have used both operating systems and XP Pro is solid, resource friendly, FAST(er), and great for casual and development work.
I have XP at home and would never go to anything else. At work i use mac OSx and it's much better than xp and vista combined, but I've never used vista and I don't think I will either.
XP is the best. I have Vista on my work laptop and XP on my desktop. The XP clearly wins. As for an alternative... try to get your hands on an XP copy?
if I had the choice to switch in, of course xp.... i've using vista in office and i may tell that it is not reliable!
Either go to windows 2000 or stay with XP. The cool thing about windows 2000, it does not require activation. So you can buy a windows 2000 CD off ebay (a real cd, not a copy) and install it on your system (one system per license) and not have to activate it through microsoft. A poll last year (2007) showed that windows 2000 held a major share in the enterprise computer market. A lot of these big companies that have tens of thousands of employees are still using windows 2000. It was not until early 2007 that windows 2000 dropped below 1/2 of the enterprise market share. With windows XP controlling about 52% - 55%. Windows 98% was still showing up in some of the surveys, but held a very small share - maybe less then 5%. Windows 2000 is a quality operating system. It was over shadowed by XP just a couple of years after its release. However, some companies did not want to spend the extra money on XP Pro, so they bought Windows 2000 because it could supported dual processors and networked with a windows NT 4 and 2000 server domain - while XP home did neither. When faced with the choice of win2k, xp home or the more expensive xp pro - the companies went with win2k. Win2k was more cost effective then buying new computers with xp pro, ran faster and was more stable. This went on from 2000 - 2004 or 2005? So while windows xp held the consumer and business market for the last 4 or 5 years, before that, windows 2000 was the lead player in the enterprise sales for about 4 - 5 years. One of the major drawbacks, a lot of software and hardware companies are dropping support for win2k.
Any Windows Operating System ranging between Win98SE and Windows XP, excepting Windows ME which is horrible, perhaps Vista ancestor when it comes to candy-eye. Linux Slax that can be run from a USB stick without removing your current Windows OS, or change to a MAC.
Vista rocks, just need a good computer, if you think vista sucks, its your computer. Games run rock solid, no problems here, even on the most intensive games.