Vista First Impressions.

I have been using Windows Vista exclusively for the last 4 days, and I wanted to shed some light on it for anyone here who is interested in it.

For those who are curious, no, I did not buy it, I got it for free through my school.

Day one... 15 minute install without a hitch! Wifi works flawlessly, adapter detected, and the built in tools work GREAT!

Day two... My sound card doesnt work, and there are no drivers available for it... 2 hours later, I hack some XP drivers and have the card working better than before. I install Oblivion and CSS... they run fine, about a 10 fps loss, but not too noticeable.

Day three... Used for about 20 minutes, with Ventrilo. Worked fine.

Basically, what I have noticed is that hte program runs great, it looks amazing, although there are some hits to the performance. More tonight..

"runs for three days" has been a quality MS has always been able to show, yes.

Alright, this OS is showing it's bad side.

I get constant BSOD and graphical errors, but all of them are stemming from the TERRIBLE Nvidia drivers. They are all beta, but still, they should be better than this.

I will be dual booting Ubuntu 6.10 and Vista until they straighten their shit.

I played with the interface a bit on a store PC. There's no doubt that it looks beautiful, but I didn't get to see any real functionality. If anyone is going to go with Vista, I would say to purchase a PC made for it or build one going by the HCL. It seems everyone I've spoken to who uses it has some type of hardware issues when they upgraded.

my friend has been having problems finding the add/remove programs on vista.

Its under "Programs and Features" in the control panel.