Favorite OS

Ubuntu, Fedora, and Windows 7 RC(its not a finished product but it works with no problems for me. Which is like a first)

windows vista has nice looks but xp pro is the best windows out right now

Yep,
I agree.
Most games are supported by it.

Vista's compatibility isn't too bad anymore. It used to be way worse.

but still... XP is higher

XP, Windows 7, Linux Ubuntu and Linux Red Hat where I practice programming :)

waylonnThere are enough tricks to bring the usage of RAM for Vista down.

Install tiny vista and you can conserve more resources than just taking out all of the visuals. I still have the default aero look on mine, but my computer runs a helluva lot faster than it would if I still had Vista on it. It runs over 120 different registry modifications, as well as disable useless services. The install disc is so small, it can fit onto a 700 MB CD, instead of the larger DVD. I have 1 GB of RAM installed on my Vista and it only uses about 24% to run. Before I installed tiny vista, that was well over 60% usage. If I ran it down to bare essentials, I'd probably squeeze another 4 or 5% out of it. Even with the fix, I still have problems transferring/deleting large files. It dicks around, giving me ridiculous estimated completion times even for deleting stuff...which ends up being 30 minutes to delete something around 4 GB. On my XP, an 10+ GB file (the common.mpq file for WoW) was gone in less than 10 seconds if that. My XP has a slower CPU. It also does that crap if I'm deleting a bunch of files, like let's say my iTunes library. It will sit there and estimate my time to deletion, take another 40 or so minutes, and then it finally decides to delete it. I never bother using my miniSD or my PSP memory stick on the vista because it will take 5x as long to transfer stuff. The only thing I use the vista for is wireless storage. I put just about everything in there, and I can do it remotely using the XP.I'd have to say XP is my favorite, but I haven't really played around with a lot of OSes, just Windows 98, XP, Vista, and Mac.

Do you know if there a 64bit version of tiny vista?I used to use tiny xp beast edition and it worked really well on the PC it was for.

Born2killx

meganovaXp also support more games than Vista ;D

Isn't that a baseless, biased statement?

nope, going to demonoid is enough to see that, most of the problems running games happen to vista users, you have a much lower chance to find a gaming-in-XP than finding a gaming-in-vista issue.i've only really used XP Pro for a long time, i've had enough of vista (3 months and i was tired of all that crap). then i've used win95 and win98, but, oh well. then, mac OS leopard for a few times (i used it for a too small period of time, so i can't really say whether it's good or not) and linux ubuntu once or twice. these last too didn't seem bad.

For example; I couldn't get the retail version of Bioshock to even load with a high end vista machine, but it started on a mediocre XP machine perfectly fine. TBH I have had this problem with a few games.

failtorespond · #48Do you know if there a 64bit version of tiny vista?I used to use tiny xp beast edition and it worked really well on the PC it was for.

There's a ton of tiny vistas running about, but the only one I would ever use is by eXperience, and so far, I have not found a 64-bit version that works.

windows xp, and vista just because of the gui and that fact that im stuck with it. ubuntu is my favorite linux distro but i would never use linux as my main os.

XP PRO SP3But, the Windows 7 will be my next OS.
Installed it on different machines with different hardware specs.Windows Vista sucks.

i like windows xp and ubuntu linux vista has good looks but not much compatability with old programs
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and dont dis vista the only probs ive had with it is compatability i have it and its fine also i would like 2 have windows next it look cool and is said 2 work way better than vista

I'm using XP SP3

debian sid (minimal install with only the software packages i choose) it has a rolling release schual which i like a bit better than installing a new version every 6 months in ubuntubut right now i have ubuntu 9.04 and am playing with debian and arch in virtualboxsometime when i have nothing better to do i plan on swiching my PC to debian or arch (as i said, right now i'm liking debian)

I use Windows XP, I don't like Vista much but thats probably cause it was put on my laptop. Craptastic Laptop+Vista=Pain and slow death ;D

I have Ubuntu 8.10 and Windows Vista on my laptop. Once Windows 7 becomes officially released, I'm getting it.

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i dual boot with the win 7 RC. it's pretty solid

Since my PC is from the dark ages, I won't be able to upgrade past XP...