what were you doing when Windows Vista was released?I was reading about it and DirectX10 in a magazine
>>108182583>what were you doing when Windows Vista was released?Sucking on my mom's titties
>I'm not switching from windows xp!I pretty much skipped vista.
>>108182583i was a year old baby boy so probably crying in a cribthat being said i started using the family desktop at 4 and i think growing up with vista helped me in the long run. my family's computer was capable of running it (Athlon 64 x2, 2GB RAM) but it still crashed a lot.
>>108182583installing random crap mostly filled with viruses and toolbars on my family's xp machine when i was six
>>108182583Probably on Youtube or Newgrounds watching funny shit on the family XP. I think we had a Vista computer for a couple months before it died and we got a new one with 7 on it.
I was like 14am I the oldest here?
Probably jerking off.
>>108182710I was 20.
I was 22 when it was launched, and I installed it just a couple of weeks later. The Aero interface was really a thing, i enjoyed it, and I never understood why it got so much criticism.
>>108182583>what were you doing when Windows Vista was released?Enjoying half a decade of being winhoes free...>>108182638>and i think growing up with vista helped me in the long run.Did it tho?You encountered any studies regarding how much the industry was retarded by pushing BASIC wit DOS?Compare your "formative years". You had the Athlon wit 2GB. Infected with Vista.I started wit a Commadore 64. 8-bit. 1Mhz. 64KB RAM.This will likely sound comically underprovisioned to you. But at the time it was actually 'high end'. To actually do anyfink on that mofo took *forever*. If you was rich enough to have a floppy drive - and the discs in them days *was* floppy - then that was much faster, but still painfully slow - else most was using C90's for data storage. Yes. Playing cassette tapes.It booted to a BASIC interface, there wasn't any "tooling" per-se. You built that. Your experience over mine scores a win in terms of the range of software you have access to, and the speed/scale at which it can process.But I'll put money on you did next to nothing with that. That you came out the other side with virtually no understanding of *how* it actually works, and even little understanding of *how* that precise imlimention functions...
>>108182793>Did it tho?>You encountered any studies regarding how much the industry was retarded by pushing BASIC wit DOS?relatively speaking i'm doing a lot better than my peers who grew up with ipads, i guess. i never implied that it was an ideal situation.
>>108182583I remember I tried it back on release, but it was super slow and laggy on my pc, because I had an XP machine from like 2003 or so.Somehow I did not even use Vista much. Everyone was shitting on it back then and me and all my friends we were sitting on XP. I switched only around 7 SP1 time.Same thing with 8 - I tried it, it was fucking horrible, so I went back to 7. I only used 8.1 just like half a year before 10 was released, and 8.1 was kinda not that bad - basically a beta for 10.
>>108182583i got vista and a terabyte external as a high school graduation present the disc was cool
>>108182793We got our first PC in 1994. It was a second had 486dx with Windows 3.1. One year later my father upgraded that to Pentium 90 and installed Windows 95.I feel a bit sorry for people who had to deal with Commodore 64 or Amiga back then. These machines were the Middle Ages of computing compared to what I had
>>108182874Based
>>108182829>i never implied that it was an ideal situation.My point was more that which you highlighted... You can spot the difference between those who had ipads... >>108182874>486dxWhen me uncle come back from uni with his Osicom 268 I got his Atari ST 520FM (still got that in a box. Needa solder in the RF jack tho it should otherwise be good) ... 11Mhz powerhouse with ½MB of RAM!He had some cart what extended it with a 3.5 phono jack he used to slap guitar into, the sampler/sequencer that sported - even with the RAM limits - and shit like steinberg cubase was loadsa fun... There was a 3D rendering package I cannot for the life o me recall the name of, but there was a demo file... Animation of two desk lamps, one larger than the other. Bat a ball between them, one balances on it, the other flattens it. I see that precise same thing - rendered in more detail - on the intro to filums. I wager they had that software too, if they didn't make the animation..Didn't get a IBM PC until '95 - P166(month or two before mmx released) 16MB RAM (soon upped to 32) and a 1.2GB HD... Can recall thinkin' "wow" as I'm slidin' in a 2.5GB Quantum Bigfoot... "it'll take ages to fill that". lol.As for amiga ... got me hands on one o them ~92ish ... ST scene was kinda dead but that still has life. Can recall being jealous of the PC havers, but when it came to actually switch the only thing to 'plus' was really the games. Swappable GPU gave better capabilities than the playstation... erryfink else software wise I could already does, and desu a lotta the games from back then isn't ever been beaten... I can recall walkin' into smack converters with a pile o games I don't play, rummagin thru the selection an walkin' out with Transport Tycoon Deluxe... f'kin three decades later (okay, OpenTTD) that game is still just as fun as it was...
Playing cs 1.5 on my Win2k machine
i had just buildered my first pc and buyded xp64 oem to go along with it just the previous yearml. i pirated vista ultimate.
>>108182874>when you first walked into the 3d W95 house and saw all your programs on the digital built in wooden shelf. >Exploring the encarta95 castleIt was a revelation.
>>108182852> but it was super slow and laggy on my pcThey removed all hardware acceleration from the gui for a transparent window gimmick. The truth is, the windows experience never fully recovered. Newer machines reduced the lag somewhat, but it never again has windows regained the pre-vista gui responsiveness.
