What do you think of Vista so far???

I'm just kind of curious what the concensus is out there among those who have upgraded. I just added a Vistax 86 to an unused partition on my RAID 0 array and have been pretty pleased. ( Dual booting XP Pro and Home Premium) I think it's definitely evolutionary as opposed to being revolutionary, but there's a lot going on behind the scenes that isn't readily obvious. It seems to be really stable, looks great, loads my most used programs quickly, and has no trouble with my hardware. The only downside I've found is game performance is a bit behind XP.
What are your first impressions?

Some things don't work right, most programs do run though. Some weird issues, some nice improvements.

Overall I like it, just wish I could fix this one little thing, then I could get back to making this machine cost effective.

Any video file I play on VideoLAN plays like any AVI file on Windows Media Player. The sound is fine, but the video is a solid white the whole way through. Kind of odd that when I take a snapshot the video can be seen for a little bit though. Should probably mention this on their forums.

First Blue screen It happened about 15 minutes into the Supcom Demo. I had TAT running in the background to monitor temps, so I'm not sure if that played a role. I'm guessing that Beta NVIDIA drivers were to blame.

its kool, i like the look

I'd consider XP the most evolutionary OS as it was just the excellent 2000 with some upgrades.

Vista is a much more major overhaul. The entire driver API has been rearranged, not to mention the dozens of major interface changes. Explorer, control panels... all very different.

2000 was ground breaking too as it took the stable Win NT platform and allowed win98 programs to run on it along with better memory management (but not perfect).

Vista is the biggest interface change since win95 I feel.


Overall I like it. Slower boot, but better application load times. Good looking and of course the included multimedia apps always get better. The new resource monitor is awesome for those who like to tweak their systems.

Odd, boot time is noticably quicker for me than XP Pro.

It's definitely strange. In my case I'm booting from 2 320 gig seagate 7200.10 in RAID 0. After the raid is initialized it still takes about 30 seconds for everything to load. Maybe it's the Beta state of the drivers??? Once everything is loaded it's lightening fast, but I was expecting faster boot times myself. (I've heard 8 seconds on a single drive!) I'm sure it'll be fixed in the future.

I recently found a way to get past this. I downloaded Portable Apps and got the Portable VLC player and 'installed' it. Open Portable VLC and open your file and problem solved!

Not the best fix ever but works and will do for now.

I like it. I think the search and file organization are going to be important features as I get used to them being there, and remember to use them. Its like that with most of the features--I will appreciate what Vista has to offer more as I use it and get used to it.

I wish you could see a progress bar when defragmenting your hard drive, instead of just saying "this could take a few minutes to a few hours."