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I'm downloading the Business edition right now.

We get it for free from school.

It'll make a nice compliment to the Solaris 10 discs I should be getting any day now.
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vi) RPGs (Role-Playing Games)
For adolescents; half-formed personalities roaming (in packs) in search of identity.

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So I've been using Vista Ultimate for about two hours now. (not ARRRed, by the by)

It is the most annoying goddamn operating system EVER. It constantly prompts you about EVERYTHING. When you change permissions to relax this, it just LIES to you and doesn't actually change anything. That or it just makes up its own rules entirely separate from the rules it tells you about.

Its using 380MB of RAM right now! I have Miranda and Firefox open. One tab open in FF. ONE.

It's also got my CPU clocked up to full tilt for some reason, so the fan is just running fucking constantly. And yes, I made sure to tell it to feel free to clock down the CPU if it didn't need it.


I do like things about it! It has a lot more options that make getting your computer set up well possible. I like the new file dialogs. I actually think the new Windows Explorer is pretty decent. It's pretty. The start menu is better, and the taskbar just seems better in general. I like the delineation between home and public networks.


But good lord, the OS acts like it knows a lot better than I do what I'd like to do with my files. They've also made a bad choice, in my opinion, of making a lot of things task-based, rather than just giving me options directly.

Also, system requirements are a little steep. 1GB of RAM. Why? 15GB of HDD, just for the OS. Why? (it seems to only use 6GB on my un-futzed with install, BTW) This version has whined a few times about me not having a good enough graphics card to run Aero, and keeps telling me to upgrade it, which is of course impossible on my year old laptop.


I think they could have done a lot worse, and it's not AS bad as people have been acting like it is, but I am definitely going back to my dual boot XP/Gentoo, at least until they release Vista: Not So Fucking Annoying Edition.


I might install it on my desktop too, to see if Aero is worth a damn!
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vi) RPGs (Role-Playing Games)
For adolescents; half-formed personalities roaming (in packs) in search of identity.

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No GPU to speak of: Intel 855GM graphics.

Also, from what I can understand from the performance viewer, Vista is actually using all my RAM, and just has the total amount - cached listed as used. That is, under "Physical Memory" it lists this:
Total 479
Cached 139
Free 9

below where it says I have 79%/380MB physical memory used. That seems to indicate to me that the caching stuff (which I knew about, and all modern OSes take advantage of, including XP) isn't included when giving used memory. It wouldn't make sense to include it in that value anyway, since I'm positive the memory with cache on it is only treated with slightly higher regard than totally free memory, as it's literally just there for lack of something better. All that leads me to believe that vista is legitimately using all the 380MB its talking about, or they fucked up their performance monitor really really badly.
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vi) RPGs (Role-Playing Games)
For adolescents; half-formed personalities roaming (in packs) in search of identity.