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(P.S., Does Halo: Combat Evolved work on vista?)
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But Vista is lot faster than XP My mate has it and everything take less than 10 seconds to install and less than 5 to play
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I used Vista in Electronic Fry's and is looks good. I just want CR's opinions.
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You play games. Get XP. That's all there is to it. The only games that you need Vista to play are Shadowrun and Halo 2, afaik... and both of those can be cracked.
Nobody should upgrade to Vista until the first service pack is released, and even then maybe not.
All the important things in Vista are behind the scenes and of no use to the average gamer dipshit.
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;D Easy to understand, easy to use, instead of the task bar getting jammed, THERE ISN'T ONE! You just push the button in on the side of the mouse and it all zooms out so you can click another program!
Useful for someone who does alot of things at once. (I write like, 3 stories, type on the net AND have itunes up at once.)
Plus you could then get duel system, so you have windows for games. That's what I have.
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You play games. Get XP. That's all there is to it. The only games that you need Vista to play are Shadowrun and Halo 2, afaik... and both of those can be cracked.
Nobody should upgrade to Vista until the first service pack is released, and even then maybe not.
All the important things in Vista are behind the scenes and of no use to the average gamer dipshit.
I am a gamer...
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Reading comprehension is a wonderful thing.
That was... objectionable.
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Reading comprehension is a wonderful thing.
Hey, I'm an alabaster retard, I don't think things through. XD
True though that did prove my brain was the size of half a walnut not to mention that. Or maybe it shrunk again.
On topic: Since I've been reminded: Windows XP I THINK it's the simpler of the 2.
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Your pick.
It happen.
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Your pick.
Hm...So you're saying Vista is the 360 and XP is the Xbox...hm...If I do get Vista, can I dual boot windows XP? Or do I have to get XP and dual boot vista?
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Don't answer that because I know the answer.
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Don't answer that because I know the answer.
I was just making a comparison....
No need to get fucking angry at me 
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So it's not a matter of installing one on top of the other; you'll just screw everything up that way.
There's also absolutely no reason to have XP and Vista installed concurrently. Go with XP and don't even think about Vista until the first service pack. This is what will fit your purpose.
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You can put either operating system on whatever machine you get, unless the specs are below the lower bounds of Vista (and in that case you don't want it anyway).
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NAH, Zudda's right. It is quite useless untill they make it possible to actually run stuff on it.
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I'll wait more 1 or 2 years to rethink that.
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Vista's not BAD, but it's not as stable as XP was and it really is a giant resource hog--unless you have at LEAST 2 gigs of RAM, go with XP.
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Plus with all of the incompatibility issues, I'm going to wait a long while before I even considered moving on to Vista. Even then, I probably won't upgrade.
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So it's not a matter of installing one on top of the other; you'll just screw everything up that way.
There's also absolutely no reason to have XP and Vista installed concurrently. Go with XP and don't even think about Vista until the first service pack. This is what will fit your purpose.
Dual booting is extremely simple, you just make a partition for the OS with the partitioner that comes with the installation disc and install it.
And dual booting both OSes have lots of good reasons. However, for your case, only get one OS.
In the end, get Vista, everyone said XP sucked and nothing worked with it when it came out, now look at it. You might as well get Vista now, because you're going to end up having to buy it anyway in the future.
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...Wow, what a lovely image.
I'd stick with XP until Vista's problems are fixed. You can always upgrade, after all.
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That's my plan as well.
Hey, what about Linux? Can you play games on Linux?
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What is WINE?
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What is WINE?
Destilated grapes.
Zuddhas saying that if you have Linux, well, you can always just get drunk.
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Defiantly not!
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Basically, it's a emulator that plays .exe's in Linux.
Usually it (The .exe) performs at 3/4 of the speed they're supposed to.
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Basically, it's a emulator that plays .exe's in Linux.
Oh lawd.
WINE is a backronym for Wine Is Not an Emulator. It's a compatibility layer. And anyway, if you want to play games, Linux is not really an option - performance will take a hit and many games won't work.
As far as compatibility goes, Vista is actually not that bad, but performance is lower than XP. How much lower depends on the computer. If you have a fairly powerful computer the difference is negligible, but with middle-class computers it would be best to stick with XP until Microsoft works out the kinks. An early prototype of Vista SP1 leaked out a few days ago, and it's already quite a bit faster.
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