Microsoft Vista

ecchi · 2007-01-30, 11:48 PM

I'm still using '98. I tried XP when it was newish, decided I did not like it and went back to 98. I may try Vista when I next upgrade, but I may not because this thread put me off with the line "translucent images and groovy 3D effects", I want a simple, functional desktop, not a dazzling display of clever computer effects that simply use up the processor's time and waste mine.

Cleo, posting that Vista is a rip off of Mac OS then posting that quote that basically says Vista is a sickening mess of visual effects (my interpretation of the quote) kind of put me off Mac. My last experience of Mac was nearly ten years ago, and on machines that were old and obsolete even then. At the time I considered the OS a poor rip off of the Amiga GUI. More recently it has crossed my mind that as I loved the Amiga, but it has not been developed in over a decade then an OS that started off as an Amiga rip off but has been constantly updated may be exactly what I want. However if the OS has followed the machine's cases in becoming a triumph of style over functionality, I think I'll give it a skip.

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2007-01-30, 11:48 PM	#10
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	I'm still using '98. I tried XP when it was newish, decided I did not like it and went back to 98. I may try Vista when I next upgrade, but I may not because this thread put me off with the line "translucent images and groovy 3D effects", I want a simple, functional desktop, not a dazzling display of clever computer effects that simply use up the processor's time and waste mine. Cleo, posting that Vista is a rip off of Mac OS then posting that quote that basically says Vista is a sickening mess of visual effects (my interpretation of the quote) kind of put me off Mac. My last experience of Mac was nearly ten years ago, and on machines that were old and obsolete even then. At the time I considered the OS a poor rip off of the Amiga GUI. More recently it has crossed my mind that as I loved the Amiga, but it has not been developed in over a decade then an OS that started off as an Amiga rip off but has been constantly updated may be exactly what I want. However if the OS has followed the machine's cases in becoming a triumph of style over functionality, I think I'll give it a skip.