[djgreedo]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

Well, let's see, about Vista, here's a rundown of stuff that I didn't like and that irked me:

Heavy ram usage (Win7 uses a fraction of ram to do the very same thing on the same machine)

Since they are the same OS under the hood, the RAM usage is almost identical. Win7 is slightly more efficient, but not noticably in my experience.

Menu's were all over the place, took twice as long to get anywhere as with XP (Win7 has jumplists on applications, which are very useful)

I agree with that to some extent. Vista was a bit too structured in places, but overall I find that once I got used to Vista it was much easier to use than XP. I don't think I've ever used the 'jumplists' in several months of using Windows 7. I'd really like a taskbar somewhere in between Vista's and 7's.

Slow, very slow, running on 2gb ram and it still felt like I was wading through chocolate to do anything (Win7 feels fast, it reacts much more quickly, my test of this is to run PS CS3 which was a dog on Vista, and now is very comfortable on Win7)

This I don't understand. I ran Vista on several systems, some with as little as 512MB RAM, and never had a speed issue. My main PC during the time I ran Vista had 1GB RAM and was a very modest laptop. It ran super smooth with the aero interface active (and did not have a dedicated GPU either).

My current computers are no faster with Windows 7 than they were with Vista (though I think my laptop boots slightly quicker).

Annoying UAC, yes I could turn it off, but it still annoyed the hell out of me (Win7's iteration of UAC is far more friendly and interrupts you less)

I agree. I still turned it off because one of my most used apps feels the need to fiddle with the Program Files directory...

I assume Vista SP2 will have the same UAC (since 7 is mostly Vista SP2 under the hood).

Crashes (I know you say it's damn near impossible, so I must be the exception to the rule, but I had frequent hard lock-ups on Vista and non-responsive applications. Again, I was using exactly the same machine as I'm using with Win7. Although I must say I have a friend who has no problems at all with Vista, works flawless for him)

It all depends on your hardware and software I suppose. Did you build your own PC while your friend bought one pre-built? I found that my home-built PC had a few issues but my laptop (main PC) never had any problems. The issues could always be traced to a hardware driver or a conflict between two bits of hardware.

The new dock/taskbar I like. It's got the same level of functionality as the OS X variant, but it's far less annoying or distracting.

I half like it, half want the original back (which I know I can sort of get from the settings). I really want some apps to have multiple tabs while keeping the compact width.

Yes, Win7 is not much more than Vista Mark 2, or whatever you'd like to call it, but in my experience with it, it's a whole lot better than Vista. I think of it as Win2000 to the previous Windows ME. For me, and I'm no MS lover, Microsoft have corrected a lot of the mistakes they've made in the past couple of years and brought out the operating system that Vista could have been.

I pretty much agree, however I like Vista more than 7 so far. 7 has a few things I find really useful (dragging windows to the side of the screen to get them auto-sized, etc.), but I'm frustrated by the instability I experience using the same hardware and software as I used with Vista (my media center PC has developed a tendency to stop playing videos halfway through, for example). I shouldn't judge a beta (or RC) though.

Actually I have more of a beef with OS X 10.5 Leopard than I do Vista. I do't know what Apple have done since Tiger, but my machine doesn't seem to like it very much (my ex-machine now, I gave it away).

So you've subjected some poor soul to OS X? Shame on you!

And Ubuntu continually improves and gets better, apart from wireless, which I've always had a problem with on Linux. That's why I'm dual booting at the moment, apart from Photoshop and Office 2007, there's nothing else I miss from windows when I'm in Linux.

What do you miss from Linux when running Windows? Dual booting is a real turnoff for me. I love the freedom to jump between apps, play a game for a while, sync my Zune, etc. without having to reboot.