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Talbain
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 Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 4:15 pm |
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| BenoitRen wrote: |
| Install Windows XP. |
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Talbain
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| Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 6:09 am |
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Even though themexp is a shovelware piece of shit, it makes custom themes on XP extremely easy. When I used it (for a brief period), I could pretty seamlessly switch through about 15 themes (most downloaded). With Vista... well it's got themes available, but man does it make your computer go slooooooow until it fully switches (also not as easy as themexp). Even .msstyles, which are XP's integrated Windows XP stylesheets are good for themes on XP. Thus, if you like Aero, you'll love Vista. But if you want something a little less glossy, you're sort of out of luck.
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Talbain
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| Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 12:25 am |
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| Panoptic wrote: |
| shnozlak wrote: |
| DonMarco wrote: |
| BenoitRen wrote: |
| shnozlak wrote: |
| I think computers should have flat uninteresting interfaces. Especially if Im trying to get work done. |
I strongly agree with this. An OS should be just a tool that doesn't get in my way. |
There's this scene in the movie Charlie Wilson's War when a contributor's waiting in Charlie's office and he notices that all of Charlie's pages and secretaries are beautiful, sexy women. One of them tells the man, "Charlie always said- 'You can teach them to type, but you can't teach them to grow tits.'"
So if you're going to spend 4, 8, 10+ hours a day five days a week, why not something that's a little aesthetically pleasing? Even if it isn't exactly perfect at first, eventually Vista will be better. For example, when I install it on my computer, it only recognizes 3GB of my 4GB installed. A few updates later, it recognizes all 4GB. Wow! |
I lok at a pretty OS and think to myself: Why waste all that man power getting transparencies to work when you cold have been focusing on fixing crippling bugs, improving sound playback/recording quality or reducing processor overhead. Form is cute, form is for web pages and entertainment. I want function in an OS; speed is sexier than colors.
Would you rather have a flat gray boxy sports car with perfect handling or a sloppy bloated slow minivan that looks like a Lamborghini? |
That's a pretty terrible analogy, but I digress - I agree with DonMarco here. I spend a lot of time on a PC and I don't think there's anything wrong with wanting the environment to look good. Besides, it's not like the people who designed Vista's GUI are the same ones writing the codebase. |
And with XP themes currently out there it's possible to mimic Vista's theme exactly. So why bother with it? There's no new, mind-blowing functionality that I'm aware of on Vista.
As for the 4GB argument... unless you're a graphic artist (or do stuff like video editing, etc.), I seriously hope you're joking. You don't need 4GB of RAM for anything excepting that type of stuff. Even then, the fact that Vista puts more strain on your processor will probably ultimately slow down your ability to manage that sort of stuff too.
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Talbain
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| Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 10:02 am |
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| Yeah I mean, from a common user's point of view (like my own) Vista actually has a lot more functionality. USB and networking, especially wireless, was always a total crapshoot on XP. Vista is 1000% more plug-and-play. |
Drivers have been provided by manufacturers for XP since forever...?
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Talbain
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| Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 5:27 pm |
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| CubaLibre wrote: |
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| CubaLibre wrote: |
| Yeah I mean, from a common user's point of view (like my own) Vista actually has a lot more functionality. USB and networking, especially wireless, was always a total crapshoot on XP. Vista is 1000% more plug-and-play. |
Drivers have been provided by manufacturers for XP since forever...? |
Where do you get USB drivers? I don't even know. Your motherboard manufacturer? Who the fuck manufactured my motherboard? How do I find out?
But in Vista I can just plug it in and it works. And if it doesn't, the "go find it for me on the internet" thing actually works like, some times, unlike XP's which was a joke.
Networking on XP was a disaster. I could be hooked up on a LAN and play games with people but not be able to see their shared folders and blah blah blah. It seemed completely random. Vista... just works. |
Uh... USB drivers are generic that XP comes with. So what whacky USB drive do you have that doesn't work with XP? I've never had a single problem with any USB hardware on XP. Seriously, what are you talking about?
As for networking and go find it on the internet--I never had the LAN problems you're speaking of and I never used that go find it on the internet, because I knew that I could find it faster than the link (and Google makes this about as easy as it can get).
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