HumanSymphony said:
[quote author=pseudolobster link=1232030958/16#21 date=1234848734][highlight]I've had major issues with vista, from buggy crashyness to program incompatibility to the way things are laid out in an illogical and unconfigurable way[/highlight].. Windows 7 for the most part seems to have solved all the things I hated about vista, and the beta so far has been remarkably stable.
There's a few issues with my laptop coming out of sleep mode, sometimes my wifi won't turn back on, sometimes my touchpad gets disabled, and I've run into a few unfinished things while poking around.. Other than that I'm really happy with Win7 in general.
I keep hearing this. I don't know how you people fail so hard :-/[/quote]
I somehow doubt this is a shortcoming of mine... I repair computers for a living.
I've been using windows since 3.0 was new, and before that I was raised on dos 4.0, before there was even an EDIT command... I'm quite used to new releases of windows being weird and glitchy, and a certain amount of that is unavoidable, though vista really takes the cake in terms of breaking everything at once...
Simply the worst windows release since ME. When you double click on my computer and it BSOD's, you reboot and it acts like you've never logged in and rebuilds you a new profile, then you try to install a program designed for XP two years ago and it gives you an incompatibility notice, then it starts defragging your harddrive without asking, then when you actually want to do something FIVE uac messages pop up, "are you sure you want to click that?", "no, are you really sure?" "I'm sure that text file could be a virus are you REALLY sure?" "This text file requires administrative access" etc etc... Yeah, if you ask me, anyone who has no problems with vista likely isn't someone who uses their computer much or is completely unobservant. Every letter you type into the start menu opens a new thread on the CPU, just ridiculous... The shutdown button is placed in a really stupid place and is unconfigurable. The defrag utility gives absolutely no feedback aside from "This could take between a couple minutes and a couple hours".. You cannot disable the disk indexing service, no matter what you are doing it will be grinding away at your harddrive constantly, every hour of every day, that horrible grinding harddrive noise.. Everything is laid out in an illogical way that is completely counterintuitive, as though they'd developed the whole thing without any usability testing...
Anyways, I don't feel like ranting much longer, I'll just say that for the most part, windows 7 addresses all the unfinished parts of vista.. the shutdown button is more logically placed, things are configurable, the disk indexing service is actually disableable, the last remaining dialog boxes that had gone unchanged since windows 3.0 have finally been replaced with modern versions, all the little stupid apps like mspaint that had gone unchange have finally been given a makeover and some real functionality, apps actually tell you what they're doing instead of a vague little animation that actually doesn't tell you anything.. Annoying things that have plagued users for years are finally being addressed, like changing the input language for the login screen etc... and, most notably, beta 7000 is much, much more stable than vista SP1, while being as fast or faster than XP.
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