Back to XP
Okay I admit it. Every time I see this Mac commercial I want to switch from Vista to XP.
I love Vista. People are shocked when I say this, but I really REALLY love Vista. I love the way it looks at it works, and for some reason the “confirm/deny” thing doesn’t bother me. But for things like World of Warcraft or Second Life or other games I have, it locks up. I’ve tried various nVidia drivers and nothing seems to stop it. Vista is very nice about catching the driver crash and restoring itself so I don’t have to reboot… but still the crashing sucks.
So today I sucked it up and backed up everything that was important, formated and reinstalled XP Pro. After 12 reboots after all the patches and updates, I’m SCREAMING FAST on this new machine. I installed WoW and with full screen graphics, everything turned up to max I am at 20% CPU usage and 723 megs of memory usage. I was over that much memory just running Vista!
So maybe I won’t miss Vista at all….