Which do you think is worse, Vista or Windows 8?

Since I've never used 8 yet I have to say Vista.

windows 8 for sure... its like they thought they were being cool by meshing mobile with pc but no its not... like WHO THE FK GETS RID OF THE START BAR

Although I had some problems with Vista originally, it seems to have stabilized. Win 7 if far superior to Vista. Win 8 is a giant leap backwards.

(08-16-2013 06:23 AM)Gopper Wrote:  windows 8 for sure... its like they thought they were being cool by meshing mobile with pc but no its not... like WHO THE FK GETS RID OF THE START BAR

^ This

The Windows 8 interface has become a punchline.

Windows 8 is pathetic. They rushed out an 8.1 to fix some of the slop.

I like Vista, so I'll go with 8.

But, the real answer is "Windows Me"

I still stay with My XP on home pc. No problems .

Windows 8 no questions asked. Vista was a little annoying, but I could deal with it. Windows 8 mandates that you download 3rd party software just to make it functional.

About two weeks after I got my current computer I decided I was fed up and looked up how to make it act more like a traditional Windows. I downloaded classic shell and set all defaults to programs instead of apps.

Ultimately Windows 8 was a move designed for a changing landscape, but it didn't need to be so at the expense of their traditional PC audience. Just set the desktop as the default start for PCs, put a real start button on there, set the defaults on the desktop to programs instead of apps, and set a different button for the metro interface. On anything else, have the defaults reversed to apps instead of programs and start with metro instead of desktop with desktop being a click away instead.

I stupidly bought Windows 8 without the touch screen....Windows 8 is useless POS. I waste so much time trying to figure out how to do simple tasks. FU Microsoft!

write in: Microsoft BOB



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(08-16-2013 09:34 AM)ecuacc4ever Wrote:  I like Vista, so I'll go with 8.

But, the real answer is "Windows Me"

I agree with this. Most problems I ever had were with ME.

(Disclosure, I have Windows 7 and like it. I never liked the look of W8.)

Vista was clunky but it worked. Windows 8 is an unmitigated disaster with a steep learning curve and for the love of God why did they remove the start button? I don't own a tablet but I still don't see how you can do stuff without a freaking start button.

I have Windows 8. It works fine for me. Maybe cause I'm a young'un but I think it's all right.

I fine with Windows 8 now that I've basically turned it into more a classic windows. The lack of a traditional start button to easily navigate and the focus on apps was a big turn off though. Maybe I just don't get apps, but I don't see the advantage of something dominating the entire screen instead of a program you can easily minimize, shrink, move around with other programs, etc. On a cell phone or portable device I get it sure, just not on a desktop or laptop.

I made sure my parent's last laptop purchase was done before Windows 8. My sister is now in the market for one and I've told her to go Mac or buy a clearance laptop from Best Buy that comes with 7 because of the changes in 8.

I didn't include ME because I never used it. I personally went straight from '95 to XP, and occasionally used '98 in the middle, but I never owned a '98 machine.

I JUST got Windows 8. I needed a computer ASAP and didn't have a choice at the time, so I don't regret it. However, I would regret buying it under any other circumstances. It is truly diabolical. This is the only OS that I have ever hated more than Mac's OSX (Vista is a close 2nd).

My favorite operating systems since the modern era, which I'm calling the mid 90's because that's when the internet started to matter, are XP, '95, 7, and OS 9 (mac). After that '98 was ehhh, and OSX, Vista, and Windows 8 have all been terrible and apparently ME is/was terrible.

^

Windows 7 and Vista are respectable operating systems.

Mac OSX is also one of my favorites (easy for me to say, since I'm typing this message from a MacBook running OSX)

Windows ME was the suck of all operating systems.
Windows XP is easily one of the best.

In decreasing order of suck:

Windows ME

(gap)

Windows Vista
Windows 8

(gap)

Mac OS 9 and below
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows NT
Windows Server (all of 'em)

(gap)

Mac OS X

(gap)

Windows 7

(gap)

Windows XP (after SP3)

(gap)

Windows 2000

(big gap)

OS/2 Warp
OpenBSD
NetBSD
FreeBSD

(gap)

PC-BSD

(big gap)

Mandrake derivatives of Linux (Mandriva, PCLinuxOS, Mangeia)
Slackware Linux
ArchLinux
SuSe derivatives of Linux (SLES, SLED, OpenSuSe)

(big gap)

Red Hat derivatives of Linux (RHEL, Fedora, CentOS)
Debian derivatives of Linux (Debian, Mint, Ubuntu)

(big gap)

Gentoo Linux

And yes, that's a write-in vote for Windows ME.