Absolutley hilarious replies right here...
I would say that half of these complaints aren't relevent with vista as they're things that were fixed. Some of these complaints are not even about the OS, they're about 3rd party applications (plugging in the headphones popup?).
Anyway my main workstation is running Vista as Apple simply doesn't offer a good solution for running a 6-drive (or more) RAID without buying a really frikken expensive external fibre channel array.
And I have to say that with no maintenance other than the monthly system update that I have it install, no AV software installed, no anti-spyware software installed, I have had almost no problems using this machine daily at work for the last year and a half since I built it.
I have built numerous other Vista machines since, some for me and some for others and IMO it is by far the best OS Microsoft has ever put out.
Here are some of the most common "complaints", and my replies.
UAC: You only ever see it if you're installing an application or making a system setting change. The biggest security feature of UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems is that the user does not have root level prividges durring normal use. UAC does just this, keeps the user at user level except when admin access is needed, and then requiring user conformation (just like UNIX does with a password) that the action they requested was really them, and not malicious software. IMO this is one of the biggest selling points of Vista, something I have been waiting for since the 95 days.
Slow performance: This was my main complaint in the first month of Vista's release, mainly due to bad graphic drivers.
Slow file transfers: I don't know how to comment this since I never really thought it was a problem, but as an example I backed up a my active photo library today to another internal drive, the entire library size was 20.5GB, reading off my RAID array, writing to a USB 2 external. Time to completion was just over 5 minutes, average speed of 50MB/s.
Stability: Again something that I have never had a problem with, and I am pretty demanding of my computer. I experience the occasional application crash, but it has never taken down the entire system with it. The current uptime on my work computer is 23 days, the last restart was when I installed the last batch of updates.
Slow startup, shutdown, recovery from sleep: Boot time on my machine is well under a minute including POST, the RAID utility checking integrity, boot loader, and OS load. Shutdown seems like it takes a little longer than it should, but I don't know why this really matters. Going to sleep results in a instant blackout of the screen and shutdown of the disks about 5 seconds later. Recovery takes maybe ~10 seconds to get back to the logon screen.
UI: Personally I don't hate the Vista "Aero" interface, it's plenty fluid for my use, previews on the taskbar is a great feature, window transitions are fluid. If you don't like it there are plenty of ways to change it. Windows classic is still around. Some system utilities moved, but IMO they all moved into a more logical order, just not what some were used to.
I would say that half of these complaints aren't relevent with vista as they're things that were fixed. Some of these complaints are not even about the OS, they're about 3rd party applications (plugging in the headphones popup?).
Anyway my main workstation is running Vista as Apple simply doesn't offer a good solution for running a 6-drive (or more) RAID without buying a really frikken expensive external fibre channel array.
And I have to say that with no maintenance other than the monthly system update that I have it install, no AV software installed, no anti-spyware software installed, I have had almost no problems using this machine daily at work for the last year and a half since I built it.
I have built numerous other Vista machines since, some for me and some for others and IMO it is by far the best OS Microsoft has ever put out.
Here are some of the most common "complaints", and my replies.
UAC: You only ever see it if you're installing an application or making a system setting change. The biggest security feature of UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems is that the user does not have root level prividges durring normal use. UAC does just this, keeps the user at user level except when admin access is needed, and then requiring user conformation (just like UNIX does with a password) that the action they requested was really them, and not malicious software. IMO this is one of the biggest selling points of Vista, something I have been waiting for since the 95 days.
Slow performance: This was my main complaint in the first month of Vista's release, mainly due to bad graphic drivers.
Slow file transfers: I don't know how to comment this since I never really thought it was a problem, but as an example I backed up a my active photo library today to another internal drive, the entire library size was 20.5GB, reading off my RAID array, writing to a USB 2 external. Time to completion was just over 5 minutes, average speed of 50MB/s.
Stability: Again something that I have never had a problem with, and I am pretty demanding of my computer. I experience the occasional application crash, but it has never taken down the entire system with it. The current uptime on my work computer is 23 days, the last restart was when I installed the last batch of updates.
Slow startup, shutdown, recovery from sleep: Boot time on my machine is well under a minute including POST, the RAID utility checking integrity, boot loader, and OS load. Shutdown seems like it takes a little longer than it should, but I don't know why this really matters. Going to sleep results in a instant blackout of the screen and shutdown of the disks about 5 seconds later. Recovery takes maybe ~10 seconds to get back to the logon screen.
UI: Personally I don't hate the Vista "Aero" interface, it's plenty fluid for my use, previews on the taskbar is a great feature, window transitions are fluid. If you don't like it there are plenty of ways to change it. Windows classic is still around. Some system utilities moved, but IMO they all moved into a more logical order, just not what some were used to.