Matthew on 18/6/2009 at 09:47
I, on the other hand, found it generally easier to use than XP.
vurt on 18/6/2009 at 10:27
Vista has some small improvements over XP, things you use everyday. For example I like that you can right click a shortcut and choose to go to the location of that file. The search function where you can search from where you are at the moment is extremely handy too. The copy function is more informative, lots of small improvements like that, so generally a bit better than XP once it's tweaked.
Overall their OS's sucks though, there's a lot of things i don't like and that i have no idea why it's not in. For exampe there's no always-on-top function for windows (if you want, for example, a movie-player to be on top of other windows) or if you're writing e.g an address in the browser and some other function/program in windows starts up, the focus goes over to that program instead so you'll have to re-click where you were writing, very irritating. It's like the creators of Windows doesnt really use it that much so they have generally no idea how lousy some things are.
Queue on 18/6/2009 at 11:45
Quote Posted by Matthew
I, on the other hand, found it generally easier to use than XP.
No, you didn't.
Matthew on 18/6/2009 at 11:52
I'm pretty sure I did, y'know.
Queue on 18/6/2009 at 11:55
Did not.
Bjossi on 18/6/2009 at 13:47
Quote Posted by Queue
(and for my money, Windows 98 is still tits and beer over the lot).
You are joking, right?
Renzatic on 17/10/2009 at 03:17
Necromancy warning my ass! I got important things to show here. Things that are neat.
I found a very neat little program called (
http://www.ntwind.com/software/vistaswitcher.html) VistaSwitcher the other day. The down and dirty of it is that it's a nice alt+tab replacement for those few of you who want a little more functionality out of their alt+tabbing.
Alt+tab does the normal thing but fancy, and ctrl+alt+tab brings up only windows specific to your current window in focus. Like say you have 50 Firefox instances open along with 30 notepad documents, and you only want to select some random Firefox window. If Firefox is your currently active window and you hit ctrl+ect, it'll only sort through those and none else.
Pretty neat stuff. It's not exactly a night and day difference between it and the default alt+tab setup, but it does have a few nice features that might make you want to consider it. I especially like how it allows you to "sticky" the window if you want, so it stays open until you select a program with your mouse after releasing the alt key. It's simple, gives you alot of info, and (
http://users.chartertn.net/greymatt/vistaswitcher.jpg) looks snazzy to boot.
So geddit. :mad:
Vivian on 17/10/2009 at 09:22
Once you disable the annoying permissions popup I honestly have no idea why the fuck people get so frothing about vista. It has a few nice new features, better searching, and otherwise seems totally fine. What the hell are people trying to do that makes them so angry about it?
Koki on 17/10/2009 at 10:33
You are not thinking four-dimensionally.
raevol on 17/10/2009 at 11:14
I see this got necro'ed but I want to contribute anyway.
OS: Xubuntu - The best I've found.
Music Player: Songbird - Not great, but better than anything else for linux media library-wise. I miss winamp so much.
Browser: Daily builds of Google Chrome - With Firefox as a backup because it sucks sometimes.
Video Player: VLC - There's nothing better.
Chat: Pidgin - gtalk/aim/irc, probably switching to Empathy with karmic, depending on how good it is.
Office: OpenOffice - Though I don't use it much.
CD Burning: K3B - There's nothing better.
Virtual Machine: Virtualbox - Running windows 2000 (that's right) for when I want to play Diablo2 or something.
Torrents: Transmission - It's like uTorrent but lighter. I love it.
Other filesharing: LinuxDC++
Image Manipulation: GIMP - Not the most user friendly, but very powerful.
