5punk

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:

lazy fuckers.

It was the brainchild of one particular pillock whose notes on how to build it consisted of about 6 lines... everyone else came out with pages of detailed notes on how to build the other products but not him!

Currently running on my craptop, though not tried on whizzy new whoosh machine.

AVG, SpyBot S&D, AdAware, OpenOffice,Magic ISO

Fista 32, I do pretty much everything I did with XP, so, apart from what's already been mentioned:
XFire, Skype, Firefox, Winamp (not tried remote as was using WMP11), Photoshop, AcidPro, NZB-O-Matic, QuickPAR, ConvertXToDVD, AutoGK, Fraps, Ulead Video Studio, Premier, every game I've tried except Dark Messiah (Steam), TeamSpeak, nTune, VLC, CCleaner, Filezilla, GameShadow.

Not work: Partition Magic, with potentially tragic consequences. Use Paragon instead, with the PQBoot from PM.


Only just started with Fista 64, but have tried:
XFire, Firefox, Steam, TF2, CoD4, WoW + Cosmos, Teamspeak, LoTRO, Hellgate, CoH, Tabula Rasa

Crikey. Is it worth me continuing with this then if most things work? I was under the impression that lots didn't, but I would appear to have been wrong.

Well it's worth noting the things that don't work, as that's useful to anyone thinking of running it, and perhaps collating somewhere other people's experiences.

Some things, like PMagic are quite destructive, but performance and lack of driver availability are also sore points. I tend to stick with a working driver set as well, as just always installing the latest of everything has more than once resulted in running a game leaving the desktop screen completely scrambled on exit.

While I now use it exclusively on my main PC and have experienced more stability than I did under XP on it, I still wouldn't recommend it for all - I have to tinker with it and I take daily backups onto dedicated external drives.

It wasn't really by choice that I moved to it, but the neccessity of having a platform that can support my future requirements of more than 2-3GB of RAM, so I've slowly migrated to Fista 32 over the last year and am now moving to Fista 64. I didn't consider XP 64 as an option.

I use this PC for gaming - it's fast, has good overclocking headroom and I want DirectX10 and 4GB of RAM so that it's still a viable platform a year from now.

I agree with all your reasons for using Fista. I think it was a bold step for Microsoft to completely rewrite their OS, and I'd expect a few teething problems - it took, what, 30 years for them to get Windows to the stage it was at XP. Even so, I'm leaving it on my laptop for now until it stabilises and I learn how to use it properly.

I'll re-read your post and adjust the OP/sticky when I'm feeling more sober so that it's constructive. Maybe with things that don't work with Fista and potential replacements for them.

Dog Pants wrote:I think it was a bold step for Microsoft to completely rewrite their OS, and I'd expect a few teething problems - it took, what, 30 years for them to get Windows to the stage it was at XP. Even so, I'm leaving it on my laptop for now until it stabilises and I learn how to use it properly.

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23 years from MSDOS1.0
15 years from Windows NT 3.1, The start of the NT codebase.

Fista was based on the Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 codebase, rather than being a rewrite. (2003 was based on the XP codebase, which was based on the 2000 codebase, which was based on the NT codebase)
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sorry

It's a wonder Fista turned out so crap really. 2k3 is mostly win, IME.

AVG Internet Security - Full suite very reasonable price

ZoneAlarm Firewall (FREE) works but I don't personally use it as I have the above offering

I personally HATE it when people Slam Fista - Flaming at MS for another bad OS - if you think its so bad go make one yourself. I like the new features n all - sure I agree that we are now at the point XP should of been at and I am disappointed WinFS didn't make its début with Fista but I have never had a problem apart from the lack of a BT stack for my unbranded BT stick but then I didn't have one under XP either!

Fista is a good Viable platform and although not entirely stable yet its more stable than XP was this long after its release.

just my twopence

/Sed