Fista is shit.

[Wiggy]

I have officially moved back to XP.

That is all.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

[thewombleofdeath]

[Stoat]

Hehehe!
I don't blame you. I've got slightly more used to Fista now my wireless works, but it's still not as stable or -in places- as easy to use as XP.
It is shinier though, I'll give it that.

[Roman Totale]

As I'm not much of a computer person, and because I can't be arsed to read up on it, what would be the advantages/disadvantages of me getting Fista?

I know people say it is unstable in places, but would theses places likely be where I was monkeying around on a PC?

[mrbobbins]

As I'm not much of a computer person, and because I can't be arsed to read up on it, what would be the advantages/disadvantages of me getting Fista?

I know people say it is unstable in places, but would theses places likely be where I was monkeying around on a PC?

We at LAN, Wiggy at has so far not been able to play any games with us. Because of Fista. I know nothing more technical than that if any further explanation is required

[Fred Woogle]

hate to say it, but we all told you so

[eion]

I have officially moved back to XP.

Back in March or April for me. Things are so much easier and more pleasant under XP (not to mention quicker).

[deject]

UAC is the dumbest thing I have ever seen. FUCK YOU OF COURSE I WANT TO OPEN THE SYSTEM PROPERTIES WINDOW THAT'S WHY I CLICKED THE ICON YOU STUPID PIECE OF SHIT!

[Stoat]

UAC is the dumbest thing I have ever seen. FUCK YOU OF COURSE I WANT TO OPEN THE SYSTEM PROPERTIES WINDOW THAT'S WHY I CLICKED THE ICON YOU STUPID PIECE OF SHIT!

You can turn that off, although I haven't figured out how to stop it complaining about it in with a Security Centre icon in the tray.

I think I prefer the new start menu though... I usually start programs with the keyboard anyway, so typing it in instead of using the mouse is no big leap for me.

[eion]

UAC is the dumbest thing I have ever seen. FUCK YOU OF COURSE I WANT TO OPEN THE SYSTEM PROPERTIES WINDOW THAT'S WHY I CLICKED THE ICON YOU STUPID PIECE OF SHIT!

This, harder than hard.

[deject]

You can turn that off, although I haven't figured out how to stop it complaining about it in with a Security Centre icon in the tray.

I think I prefer the new start menu though... I usually start programs with the keyboard anyway, so typing it in instead of using the mouse is no big leap for me.

Yeah I know you can, but that defeats the entire purpose of having it. Throwing another Yes/No box in someone's face isn't going to solve anything because the people who don't know what it means just click allow and the people who do just get annoyed because they're being asked if they want to do something they're trying to do intentionally. I realize Microsoft is trying to make our computers safer, but I don't need that kind of shit.

[HereComesPete]

QFT. In the process of fettling the gf's lappy, I encountered what can only be described as a fuckload of those popups asking if I wanted to open the thing I just clickied, It's so intensely annoying that I didn't even turn it off, I did what I had to, and then gave it back, glad to be rid of the fucking thing. I think I've said this before, for all that its shiny, it's still shit, and as hard as you rub, you cant polish a turd.

[cheeseandham]

[HereComesPete]

That's a truly beautiful product!

[nunoncastors]

I quite like Fista. But then, I've spent fucking ages rummaging in its guts to make the whole thing more bearable.

Still use Ubuntu most of the time though.

[FatherJack]

I like Fista, but I couldn't do without XP either. It's slightly inconvenient to dual-boot, but it's less painful when you have XP to fall back on rather than being forced to bend Fista to your will and try to get everything wokring at once.

I play LoTRO, Bioshock (duh), TF2, GuildWars, GRAW2 and Titan Quest under Fista with no probs. Even got Dreamfall going with an updated StarForce driver.

It's generally quite stable, and crashes that would blue screen/reset XP are sometimes recoverable under Fista. Not happy with where it puts stuff, though - too much crap and (more importantly) user data on drive C:, which - and I can't believe they don't know this - is the single worst place for user data to be.

It does still feel a bit like a test drive, though - sort of like running NT5 before they released it as Win2000. Until very recently I had a Win98 partition to boot to, and I anticipate my XP partition will be around for at least as long at that was.

[nunoncastors]

I agree with you there, it does feel like a test drive for the real thing, windows Fista Beta, if you will. And yeah, I still have an XP partition, well, an entire 80gig drive, just in case something I want won't work in Fista. So far the only problem I've had was trying to play 1942 in MAME. You'd have thought I was trying to stick my cock in the cd drive the amount of fuss it made.

I was puzzled by the choice to stick so much crap in root too. I'm all for having faith in security measures, but the first thing anyone (or anything, if it's malware or some shite) is going to try, is c:\ *asplode*

Still, I suppose when you're the market leader you can do whatever the hell you fancy.

[eion]

You'd have thought I was trying to stick my cock in the cd drive the amount of fuss it made.

Well, were you?

[nunoncastors]

Nah, I only have a floppy. *b-dum, tish*