Windows Selection - Which One?

32 bit XP is the hands down winner for compatibility over the 64 bit and benchmarks about 10% higher than Vista.

 

If you already have the install disk for both Vista and XP, then configure your system to dual boot. That's what I' doing...although all I'm using Vista for now is to play Texas Holdem..

 

I bite the bullet at work and went with Vista figuring that I need to stay up with the current OS. Plus our IT person said I would like it more. I wish I had stuck with XP, who ever said it above "I was way more productive with XP" was right. Sounds like you made the right choice staying with XP. Vista slows down ACAD, Outlook and just about every other program. Next computer at home will have Leopard, I'm going to switch.

 

This thread highlights a real problem in this country. There is windows and everything else. God I wish someone would get off there butt and build a truly competive OS for PCs so MS would have a rival and we would have choices other than an Apple or Linux. In fact I always tell myself if I win the lottery that is exactly what I'm going to do with money and I do it would sell as tired as people are of being in MS control. Now as for the OP I say XP 32 but I'd recomend hacking it up a little to get it to run just right.

 

i tried Vista buisiness or pro or whatever for about 8 months. i thought "hey, might as well not get behind". but after 8 months of frustration i gave up and reloaded XP last week. i couldnt take it anymore. it is the most worthless OS i have ever used. XP is solid and reliable. I will never use Vista again. And keep in mind i didnt come to this decision after just one week. i gave it the better half of a year, hoping i would get use to it or they would release updates to make it better, but finally i just gave up on it completely. Although i will say that asthetically Vista is beautiful. All the IT guys at work run XP at home and wont even touch Vista.

 

XP pro 32 bit is what I run. Vista is another Windows ME nightmare that I am hoping it will just go away.

 

Stay away from Vista is what I'm told by my tech dept. They crash/freeze for no apparent reason.

 

I'd run as far and as fast from Vista as possible. My mother, bought a new Dell laptop, and the only way it would come is with vista, and it took me nearly 2 weeks off and on to get it to the point where everything she wanted pseudo worked, as in not really worked, but did function in some sort of crippled form or another. Never again. (While not an IT guy, I do know enough about computers to make myself dangerous, and the computer I had before the one I have now I built myself just to see if I could, and it took me less time to build and set-up that damn thing than it took me to install some software and connect a few periferals on that damn vista machine)

A question for Phantom.

About 10 years ago I ran redhat linux, but went back to windows after I left college as I was not arround CS majors to bail me out if I F...ed up big anymore.

Is the ubuntu more plug and play/fool proof than the old redhat was? IE: could I go back to running Linux, or do you still need to be a CS major to run it effectively?

 

someone actually voted 1st to bring it back... dont think SB notice the date..