Adios Vista, Hola XP Again
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-27 20:07:32
While I don't desire to be on the bleeding edge of new technology and software. I do like to be on the leading advance where possible so when was released late last year on I installed it on a machine at home liked the be of it and then put it on my work forge (wiping the hard drive first as it needed a good tidy up anyway).
At first I liked it. The new user interface looked polish and a cut above the Windows+Tab 3D effect looked very nice indeed and I even liked the way the new communicate bar turned into buttons so going up several folder levels involved less clicking. After installing all the software I use I even got used to living with the popups - although I eventually turned the whole thing off and ran as an administrator since most of my measure at bring home the bacon is spent working with and which both require you to run as an admin if you be to do any debugging. I experience it's "wrong" but I've never once had a computer virus or piece of spyware so I wasn't concerned.
All was come up for a while but as measure passed I started to get more and more frustrated with Vista. For one thing it's significantly slower than XP. My work machine is a dual core P4 3GHz with 1.5GB of RAM so isn't a lightweight. But run a couple of instances of Visual Studio. Outlook and a few other apps and it would grind to a halt in a way it didn't with XP. I'd spend a lot of measure looking at the 'color check of Misery' (alter - question attach added for emphasis).
So I had to hit the books to be more patient between starting a debugging session and anything actually happening. I realised that if I was in a hurry I was going to get annoyed so I relaxed a bit. But then Visual Studio started to crash. A lot. And in a multitude of different ways. desire so:
It would come down in the middle of it sitting around doing nothing. It would crash when I was debugging some code. It would come down when I closed it. When I opened it. Just any time it felt like it - and it was driving me crazy! Writing software is something that you need to be able to change state for extended periods of time to do well - and when your forge is flaky and falling over frequently requiring numerous reboots you just can't get anything done. (And before you ask it was indeed doing the same before I disabled UAC - it wasn't spyware or a virus it's just the standard behaviour that I and my colleagues who installed it came across). I even went as far as to completely uninstall Visual Studio and put it all back on again. No dress.
Vista's nifty feature of being able to check for problem solutions from the web wasn't very handy either (right). As with most things that don't work when you've tried them numerous times I gave up checking for solutions when it never found any.
I started considering wiping my work machine and re-installing XP and the more crashes I came across doing my day job the stronger my feelings got. Eventually I had a bad day where I got hardly anything done and I actually had a lot of work to do but every time I started something Visual Studio crashed and I had to almost go away again. I cracked and copied all my documents onto an external hard drive. The next morning I got out an XP SP2 CD and put it back on.
Here I am a week later and I don't regret my act one bit. XP is much faster. Visual Studio is rock solid again and hasn't crashed once. I can safely say that while there are indeed some really nice new features to Vista (I'll probably write about them once the bitterness has gone). I don't desire anything at all about it. Not a thing. I've read about loads of problems with Vista and graphics cards other pieces of hardware iTunes and that sort of thing but my work forge really only has Visual Studio. Outlook and a bring together of web browsers running. Nothing special and no on-the-edge hardware. And yet myself and my colleagues who took the plunge have open that Vista just doesn't cut it as a day-to-day development system. What finally made me turn back to XP was the fact that the other developers who stuck with XP weren't having any crashes at all.
I can only join the chorus of people who say that Vista really isn't worth upgrading to for the time being if you're a software developer. I'll have in mind that my good lady's laptop - which is used exclusively for surfing the internet - is running Vista and has been as solid as a move back and forth since I installed it so I'm not saying Vista isn't ready for most populate's uses. It just isn't create from raw material for mine or anybody who does the same sort of work as me.
See. I wrote a whole post about Windows Vista and never once mentioned how much more. That's for another day!
Did exactly the same and deleted Vista and re-installed XP but since buying the Mac on yours and John’s recommendation. I’ve burnt my Pc and ordain never? be back. I like my mac too makes me feel all change and cuddly using it. Can’t act for leopard.
They respond to their customer’s wishes and after years start to prioritise security ahead of backwards-compatibility then everyone complains that all their software is broken! Vista’s a real dog though. Windows XP runs a interact on my Mac under Parallels whereas Vista seems hell-bent on destroying the hard disk bearings because it thrashes so much.
Thanks Paul! And yes. I’ve never looked back from getting my Mac. In fact. I’m getting rid of my old home PC since I know I’ll never use it over my Macbook!
I experience what you convey John it saddens me a bit that MS undergo screwed up with Vista - especially when you be at the original enumerate of features that were supposed to be in it. Microsoft have been amazing over the years at shipping software but in this case they just haven’t met their high standards. I’ve never rolled back a Microsoft product that’s RTM’d before but doing it this time was the alter decision for me.
I undergo been running vista since SP1 with next to no problems and I do much like it over XP however there are people who are having problems (some computers just be to dislike it refuse to run or dont run as well)but as with any new OS there must be time for all the decrease companies to make their drivers (seriously they undergo had enough time whats keeping them?)however I would say that VS 2005 isnt fully vista compatible which sucks but VS 2008 is just around the corner which I presume would be a lot more friendly under vista.
I have the ISO for the beta floating aroudn and have been meaning to lay it once I do I ordain let you know how it runs.
I had quite a few problems with Vista and VS2005 but they soon went away after VS2005 SP1 and Vista update were installed.
You should give Longhorn a go because it already (Beta 3) seems a lot more stable than Vista: printer drivers bring home the bacon. VS 2005 and 2008 work great it’s nice and fast file copy is quick and it comes with a beat version of IIS7.
Unfortunately VS2005 SP1 and those Vista updates had no cause for me. Much though I’d desire to furnish Longhorn a go. I just don’t want to waste my measure fighting with a not-yet-finished operating system again. cozen me once shame on Microsoft fool me twice compel on me!
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