That's another thing -- why do we have to re-learn everything each time there's a new version of windows? Why do they keep changing things and moving control panels around and all that junk? Again IMHO! :)morelia wrote:Used it at a friend's for about five minutes before the "are you sure you wanna" totally pissed me off. If there is a way around that sort of crap then I guess I'll end up using it when all I use is supported. There is a way to turn that off right?
Windows Vista: use it much?
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- KVRist
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- 89 posts since 24 Jun, 2003
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- KVRian
- 1360 posts since 4 Aug, 2004 from Ain't tellin' ya...
morelia wrote:Used it at a friend's for about five minutes before the "are you sure you wanna" totally pissed me off. If there is a way around that sort of crap then I guess I'll end up using it when all I use is supported. There is a way to turn that off right?
Over 2gb? Only if you're using the 64-bit version. Windows XP will let you use more than even 4gb but you'd need to use the 64-bit version 
Agreed about the multicore CPUs, Vista appears to take advantage of the extra power of dual and quad cores, but I can't see why it would make it any more useful than XP.
Ben
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- KVRian
- 520 posts since 11 Sep, 2003 from Berlin, Germany
yeah, +1 here.Alan wrote:I tried it on my internet machine just to check it out. Hated everything about it. I already didn't like the direction XP was going in, so forget this. Lasted about an hour, wiped my drive and put XP back. I'm seriously thinking of going back to 2K for both net and DAW and eventually Linux since I hate OSX too.
An NT-compatible kernel, an NTFS driver, a TCPIP stack and a window-manager is all I would like to have from Redmond. But I have to get broken browsers, assistants, digital restriction management and all the crap I never wanted on my pc. And it's getting worse..
Maybe ReactOS will come to my rescue some day...
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- Banned
- 1842 posts since 4 Aug, 2004 from just right here
Not in any hurry to try it. You need better software and hardware to make use of it. Im not sure if there is any real advantage to Vista. Maybe the one after Vista whith the new'er software and hardware....mmmmmm.........
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- KVRist
- 230 posts since 22 Nov, 2002 from Manchester, UK
i tried a month or so ago while I was off work ill for a couple weeks. My conclusion was that its XP with a few extra (pointless) apps, the menus re-jigged around a bit and an even uglier interface. Waste of time until the software developers make use of the better memory management, better multicore support and the UAA architecture, when then it will have some benefit.... oh yeah and nuhi's vLite app is capable of stripping the majority of the crap out of it 
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- KVRist
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I'm sure you know about Dell:thecontrolcentre wrote:I've just bought a new dual-core laptop. I managed to track down a machine with XP pr-installed (not so easy at the moment), as none of my music software supports Vista. I can't see what advantages Vista offers musicians, or anyone else ...
http://www.informationweek.com/windows/ ... =199200199
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- KVRAF
- 2278 posts since 8 Apr, 2003
I've been playing with WINE (with which ReactOS shares a lot of code) under Kubuntu recently and I'm surprised at how many of my day-to-day programs work. It's been quite a while since I used WINE so they've made quite a bit of progress. A lot of Windows audio programs are working under it including VSTs. This combined with some of the exciting Linux-only softsynths might make for a fun a music platform.bleebsen wrote:Maybe ReactOS will come to my rescue some day...
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- KVRian
- 954 posts since 15 Dec, 2000 from NY,NY,USA
I also heard there will be very few if any service packs, which means you might have to get updates online. My DAW machine is never going online. It seems the PC peaked with 2K/XP and it's all downhill from here unless you join the media circus and put up with it. Hopefully the people who make XP-Lite are working on the ability to strip everything. Then I might consider it. Might with a capitol M.
"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal." - Albert Einstein
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- KVRian
- 520 posts since 11 Sep, 2003 from Berlin, Germany
I've been trying out ubuntu and wine too. But Cubase is my main concern, and that's impossible to run (I guess) because of missing syncrosoft and asio drivers.LBN wrote:I've been playing with WINE (with which ReactOS shares a lot of code) under Kubuntu recently and I'm surprised at how many of my day-to-day programs work. It's been quite a while since I used WINE so they've made quite a bit of progress. A lot of Windows audio programs are working under it including VSTs. This combined with some of the exciting Linux-only softsynths might make for a fun a music platform.bleebsen wrote:Maybe ReactOS will come to my rescue some day...
ReactOS is supposed to run with windows drivers - but until now it won't even boot on real hardware - at least the ones I got.
I *think* they did already: www.vlite.netAlan wrote:Hopefully the people who make XP-Lite are working on the ability to strip everything. Then I might consider it. Might with a capitol M.