What is your operating system of choice?

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You have a PC. You are running Vista on it. That is the slowest operating system that you could be running on that PC.

I tried Vista right when it came out and HATED it. When I got my new computer, a couple months ago, Vista came pre-installed on the computer. It was bad enough that Vista was installed as the operating system, but also Compaq had all their stupid advertising all over the place. I reformatted my computer within a few minutes after turning it on once. I installed Windows XP SP3 Pro and installed a bunch of superior software.

Vistas only slow on crap computers though.

It still sucks though, no offense. You should switch to Windows XP Pro, it runs games/programs quicker.

Indeed so you get a super fast and expensive computer and vista performs OK on it. but just think about how much extra power you could get for that money if you had an operating system that didn't slow it down so that it performs the same as a cheaper computer with a decent operating system. as pointed out here already even XP would run even faster still on your fast, expensive machine that runs vista well.

I don't think XP supports 8Gb DDR.

It supports it, but who the hell needs that much ram?

I think you may find you need XP64 though and that OS has no driver support for most wireless dongles.

BTW Shadowbound, if you are one of those people who thinks that "newer is better", I can assure you that this philosophy should not apply to Windows Vista. I instantly knew that it was garbage. Have you used Windows XP before? You should definitely do a comparison sometime.

And I for one can never understand these people.

New is very often not better at all. New is often dressed up to look better.

I had XP on my old PC before I upgrading everything.

I know I'm going to sound like an idiot, but my last XP machine was impossibly unstable and a flaming piece of garbage, whereas my Vista machine has never crashed. I mean, yeah, it has a few quirks which annoy the crap out of me, like it lacks an mpeg 2 decoder, and it is known to be substantially slower, and the compatability sucks major balls...

But overall for my everyday use the thing is pretty good.

I have a dual boot with XandrOS and XP, it runs great and does everything I need it to and then some.

I love OS X (I've tried it for a long while once and absolutely loved it. Stability is a key factor in music making) and Linux (any distro that doesn't crash every 43 minutes and has a GUI).

Haven't used a Mac OS in over 7 years.

One of my computers came with Vi$ta preinstalled. I couldn't get it without Vi$ta installed on it. After running Vi$ta for about a month, I took it off. I had to tweak vi$ta just to get it to work somewhat, without it freezing or crashing or the BSOD. Now on this computer I have MEPIS 7.0, I took Vi$ta off. Running vi$ta is like someone took a diarrhea dump inside my computer

Work computer I have Ubuntu & Windoze XP

My lap top CentOS