The Official "Help me!" Thread

[Board of Command]

Driver support, system requirements, legacy support for games....

Driver support and system requirements are irrelevant if you're buying a new computer right now with modern hardware. Even if you have some old hardware, chances are that Vista comes bundled with the drivers provided the hardware isn't some obscure thing from Asia. I installed Vista on a friend's computer and it had working drivers for her ancient HP inkjet built in.

As for games, nearly all games that worked on XP will work on Vista either natively or through some compatibility tweaking. And to be realistic, you're not buying a brand new computer to play ancient DOS games.

[Buffalobiian]

I've got a Vista and 4 xps at my place. I just find Vista annoying, that's all. Not that that means much. I don't like change, to be honest, and have no incentive to learn how to use Vista yet. Reading this thread for better opinions.

On a side note, has anyone here had experience with Nero Backitup 2.x? I couldn't be bothered deleting and re-copying my anime so just backed my comp up as it is. took something like 15 DVDs and 5 hrs on best compression. Took me two whole nights to figure out that if it doesn't burn succressfully on max speed too, so I've got a paper basket full of DVDs now, lol. Just wanted to see if anyone has succressfully burned and restored their hard drive with it. I didn't bother verifying, since the system files would have modified itself somewhat.

[Assertn]

As for games, nearly all games that worked on XP will work on Vista either natively or through some compatibility tweaking. And to be realistic, you're not buying a brand new computer to play ancient DOS games.

I guess it's a bit late to reply but....
Is Vista's legacy support for 32 bit games better than XP64's support for 32 bit games?

Last time I tried XP64, I realized I couldn't play Starcraft anymore.
...utterly unacceptable