This month marks two years for my Vista install on my laptop. It is absolutely the best operating system I’ve ever used. Here’s what would have happened to me had I installed a different operating system two years ago:
Windows XP – the next logical choice: My laptop would have been reloaded 3 times since and I would be getting ready to reload again now. Most of my XP installations had to be reloaded every 6 months.
Linux: Month of my life wasted on emerge (if Gentoo). Months of my life wasted on troubleshooting hardware and getting sleep, wireless, etc, just right. Don’t get me wrong, I love Linux, but I’ve never had any success making everything work perfectly on a laptop, and by perfectly I mean that I can keep it running for a month without rebooting it – just putting it in sleep and hibernation when not in use.
I’m looking forward to upgrading to Windows 7 when it comes out. I’ve been running Windows 7 on another test machine at work and so far it seems pretty nice, and faster than Vista on the same hardware.
I’m having something happen to me that has never happened before. I’m getting bored with an install. Nothing is going wrong on my laptop. There’s nothing for me to tweak, nothing to fix, nothing I need to change. It just works exactly how I need it to when I need it to. Maybe it is time to start dual-booting something else.
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I shiver at thought what were you doing to WinXP installs.
My last XP installation on desktop lasted for over three years of heavy abuse and was only relieved by motherboard failure recently.
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Part of what I do includes installing and uninstalling software on a regular basis to test it. At work this is many times more frequent at home. I find that some things are more detrimental than others, and on certain computers I will refuse to install certain software. VPN software for example doesn’t seem to like to be installed, then uninstalled, then replaced with another product, and so on. Seems like a few iterations of that will kill a machine’s performance pretty quickly.
I use Vista too but am not too impressed with the whole Windows package that went with my laptop.
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I’ve never been impressed with “as shipped” configurations of Windows. The first thing I always do with a computer, whether for me, a friend, or work, is to format and reinstall it.
I am also using Vista and so far I am happy with it. I tried XP in my other PC and it is also reliable.
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I prefer XP over Vista but that is because Vista is a resource hog. On my old machine I had to reinstall XP every 6 months or so but on my new computer I’ve had it for over a year and it is nearly as fast as it was the day I got it. I agree with you on the format any pre-configuration machine. I hate the Trend Micro and McAfee crap they put on it.
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Vista is good, but not for business I believe. Windows 7 looks good too, but I’m an IT guy and I still love windows XP, till I die (i suppose)!