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Originally posted by gehzumteufel linux works great and looks badass. it also has much better effects and can do more. it is ftw.

Some GUI elements of Vista remind me of Fedora core GNOME.

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American composer John Cage on his aesthetic of silence

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Originally posted by gehzumteufel rofl they said that with DX8, 9, and now 10. you think it will come to fruition? i doubt it.

One of the very first (if not the very first) games to be made using D3D10


Wait until you see the last game made with it. There are only two D3D10 video cards out now...from NVIDIA (geforce 8800 GTS and GTX). In some tests the higher end one(GTX) almost doubles the performance of the previous high end cards on the market. There are plans for still more powerful cards not only from NVIDIA, but from ATI as well. And I don't think developers really have had enough time to take advantage of everything the new cards and DX10 offer. Just look at the earliest DirectX9 games, and look at F.E.A.R. or Prey now.


With DX10 you're going to see less games that look like this:


And more games that look like this:

I only upgraded from windows98 to XP a year ago, and only because i couldnt find 98 drivers for some new hardware

98... was for the win...
20mb memory footprint > *

It's like XP, only with even more stupid shit to disable.

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Originally posted by Arbiter It's like XP, only with even more stupid shit to disable.

rofl not even close. the problem with vista is there are so many things you CANT disable without compromising usability on mobile platforms that its a pain in the ass. on desktops that NEVER move there are SOME things you can disable but unfortunately theres so much in there that you cant. i already tried when i had the beta. they made things more dependent on certain services.

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Originally posted by echosystm I only upgraded from windows98 to XP a year ago, and only because i couldnt find 98 drivers for some new hardware 98... was for the win... 20mb memory footprint > *

haha 9x sucked ass. yeah the memory footprint was tiny but ill take a larger memory footprint for the stability of a rock (well thats all relative..but in windows terms) than a tiny footprint and lots of memory management problems, file system corruption, hard drive size limitations, etc. the list goes on. you obviously never upgrade your computer.

In my opinion steaming pile of shit. Ill stick with OSX.

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Originally posted by jupiterone In my opinion steaming pile of shit.

How educated is this opinion?

On another note, having worked with previous iterations of the OS doesn't count as being informed regarding Vista.

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Originally posted by Yan How educated is this opinion? On another note, having worked with previous iterations of the OS doesn't count as being informed regarding Vista.

Well its just my educated opinion as far as what I think of it so far. Maybe its because there is simply little support for drivers ect. Then again I'm not necessarily a M$ fanboy.

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Originally posted by jupiterone Well its just my educated opinion as far as what I think of it so far. Maybe its because there is simply little support for drivers ect. Then again I'm not necessarily a M$ fanboy.

The drivers will come.

I hope.

i wanna get vista but i have a get a new computer to run it