Will you buy Vista ?

[Till]

I tend to wait with Windows purchases until support for the previous version runs out. Only just migrated from 2k to XP. A possible Vista purchase would be years away from now. There are a lot of quite worrying rumours surrounding Vista, though, so maybe i won't buy it at all.

 

[zenspiderz]

No chance. When I get around to it I'm switching to linux.

 

[Cheetah]

I get it free from my university.

Actually, I've been running pre-releases for a while, and have had Vista final since the start of January.

 

[JonnyB]

I have no intention of switching to Vista anytime soon, if ever. If I bought a PC that already had Vista installed I'd probably keep it since I don't know what would be involved in changing the OS. But my PC is new enough that I shouldn't have to worry about that for a while.

 

[Erik Mesoy]

No NEVER! Even if i have to forgoe PC games. Il find a way around it.

Wine (http://www.winehq.org/) will get you plenty of games. It ran StarCraft from a standing start for me.

Wesnoth (www.wesnoth.org) is described as "the flagship of Open Source gaming".

If you like something with a more classical feel, try Angband (http://www.thangorodrim.net/) and its descendant ToME (http://www.t-o-m-e.net/). Not FLOSS, but cross-platform.

Try some of those games, you might like them.

Of course, Firefox and OpenOffice are cross-platform too, so you can make the switch gradual by adopting more and more Free applications, and you have most of them ready when you switch.

No chance. When I get around to it I'm switching to linux.

Debian and its variant Ubuntu are both working on projects to make that easier.

Debian: http://goodbye-microsoft.com/
Ubuntu prototype: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=338279

 

[Murky]

I think wesnoth is the rare exceptional open-source game. Most open source projects go for a while then interest drops off sharply about half-way through the project.

Unless there are some very generous and driven individuals on the open-source project it will not likely be completely before the basic design of the software becomes obsolete.

There are some nice open-source exceptions like linux and apache. These aren't just small open-source projects run by hobbist. They are typically well-funded software development projects just like most other software is.

 

[kryszcztov]

I couldn't care less about the OS anyway. The less I have to deal with it the better.

You must be a rich man... to pay to shoot yourself in the foot. In one way or another you may someday get reality back in your face and be forced to deal with the OS (ie. Vista). We'll see.

 

[Zelig]

I'm ordering Vista tomorrow. I don't currently have a copy of XP for my gaming computer, which is an obvious problem.

 

[.Shane.]

You left out a circumstance from your options:

I'm getting Vista as a free upgrade for an XP license I bought last month.

That said, unless MS surprasses my expectation and their own track record, it will probably be about 6 months before I'm willing to install it.

 

[Masquerouge]

You must be a rich man... to pay to shoot yourself in the foot. In one way or another you may someday get reality back in your face and be forced to deal with the OS (ie. Vista). We'll see.

Mmmmh. So far I never had any issues with the various Windows OS bundled with the PCs I've bought. And since I use my PC in a casual way (Internet, gaming, storage and work), I don't see why I should bother fixing something that's not broken.

 

[Adamb0mb]

By "entitles", do you mean that there's a copy of Vista included in the laptop price, which is higher than normal?

No, I mean the copy of vista that all new systems include so that people wouldn't stop buying computers during the holiday season.

 

[Yoda Power]

Some day probably...

 

[Perfection]

within the next two years I'll porbably end up with a Vista machine.

 

[Irish Caesar]

I will not, as my laptop has XP, which works well enough for me.

Of course, any question that starts "will you buy..." is probably a no, coming from a college student and a guy who doesn't have Civ4 but still hangs out in this forum...

 

[Guangxi]

Will you buy Vista ?

XP is working fine for me, so no.
what does vista do different?

 

[Adamb0mb]

XP is working fine for me, so no.
what does vista do different?

DirectX 10 and it was supposedly designed from the ground up with gaming in mind (I heard this on the pcgamer podcast)

 

[Masquerouge]

On that matter, I don't really understand the sheer amount of contempt Windows seem to get from the "advanced" crowd. It's a bit as if construction workers were making fun of people buying fancy clothes . True, fancy clothes are not what you need when your line of work is construction, but not everybody is a construction worker.

Now for Linux: it might be more advanced and more everything than Windows, but to someone who's not that much into computers, why should I bother with a complete OS switch that, if I understand correctly, will make playing my favorite games more difficult than it currently is? (I have nightmarish flashbacks of the days when I had MS/DOS and had to fickle the config files every time I wanted to play a darn game). Why should I bother researching and installing something I'm not familiar with when what I have works very smoothly?

 

[Xanikk999]

DirectX 10 and it was supposedly designed from the ground up with gaming in mind (I heard this on the pcgamer podcast)

Not like microsoft had a stranglehold on the computer gaming market already....

 

[Urederra]

[censored] no.

Silent mangling of my data? No thank you. Random reboots? MS reserving the right to confiscate it right back at any time? Using my computer and my internet connection for their purposes without my approval (and if they could, without my knowledge)?

What OS do you use?

I am quite happy with Mac OS X, so, no, I am not buying Vista.

 

[Ansar]

I don't really know about computers, but Windows XP seems to work fine for me.