Thumbs down on Vista

[SorenP]

Yeah I've heard globally awful things about production software running on Vista. Even Avid and final cut from the video world have been not so friendly with it. XP wasn't that much different until SP2 came out if you want to get real nerdy about it. So for now I'd shy away, might be different in the coming months though.

[neal79]

From what I've seen vista is a mess. Just went to check out a friends new Dell that is running it and get everything setup for them. He's not using it for audio but it still is no fun. First thing I noticed is just to install some software I had a bunch of extra warning boxes to deal with. After that basic stuff seems to work ok but anything specialized is not really going to work. He has a scanner to read data from the computer inside of cars and that will not even run even in XP mode. Best bet is home built running XP or a Mac for audio.

[dolivas]

Best windows build to use right now is Windows XP Pro if you can get it. Easier to back up things, can use NTFS as the format for your harddrive which makes it a bit less problematic. Plus networking and other things can be a bit more tweakable.

Dunno about Vista I think first adopters always suffer because 99% most of the kinks that weren't brought up R&D or by beta users is brought out the lay user. I do think like in 2 years we should see Vista be as robust and reliable as XP is to some extent now.

[smopo24]

I've heard nothing but horror stories about Vista since it launched. For some people, their interfaces and software are rendered useless; patches have been slow to come out. I guess it's like any new OS though; plenty of kinks to work through. That's why I'm hesitant to buy some electronics right away; let the more adventurous consumer go ahead.