John Carmack hates Vista, maybe you should too

Toneman will you be my best friend? Blood brother? Roomie?? I'll let you code for as long as you want! I swearz!

PS . OMFGZ NEX JUST BLOGGED A NAUGHTY WORD!! OH NOES!!1!!

I waited 2 years to install service pack 2 for XP, I can wait just as long for Vista.

Now if SPORE somehow ends up requiring Vista... I don't want to think about it, my wallet is hurting.

skankerzero its designed for SCI FI FPS. Just take a look at Prey. Its not the 'Prey' engine.

so, the ps3 sucks to develop on and now microsoft, too ? maybe he's just to lazy to learn some new programming tricks...

I'll be jumping to Ubuntu in a year or two. Until then, XP.

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caveman ughlympics, i love this game and i want a remake

Hahaha, that picture is awesome Rockvillian. :)

Thanks for the laugh.

Thanks for that lizard pic, Rockvillian. I was thinking about doing that myself, but you just saved me three days of l33t haxz0ring. :)

Not only is he right but take a look at that link: [url=http://http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=3418[/url] . NSA and Microsoft worked together to make Vista... doesn't look good after all the eavesdropping they've done lately.

I have been on the fence about getting boot camp, if it was worth the time and I am not 100% sure on which games my iMac could handle.

On the topic of Macs. Is the G5 the worst Mac ever or something? Because my college has hundreds of them and they're all slow as shit.

yeah it is definitely sweet that vista will have the 360 live service, probably the best online gaming there is. halo 2 ftw. I'm still going to wait at least 6 months before I buckle under and get a copy so they can actually release a non-buggy version

that nsa shit scares me too

"yeah it is definitely sweet that vista will have the 360 live service, probably the best online gaming there is."
Just to be honest, I don't think that most hardcore PC gamers actually care about Live, existing online multiplayer is already enough for us. :P

Everyone talking about Vista and gaming...this Christmas we got a laptop for my mom from Circuit City and they said we can sign up and get free download of Vista and my dad wants to do it this weekend? Well anyways, I just don't know why we are doing that, especially if it is more for gamers.

Hmmm, intersting. I wouldn't go buy XP cause I have a copy from my old computer (Apple Switcher). I am just intereted in playing a game or two...don't know if they would work on my computer or not though.

Whenever I look at the specs of my computer and compare it to others, I feel they are 2 different languages

Actually, I've always seen Carmack as more nutria.

@ BlindsideDork about the G5:
The G5 is a much different processor than x86 (most notable the crazy Xeon setup in the Mac Pro desktop computers), with the G5 being a PowerPC based processor, which is best used in integrated/dedicated computer devices. PowerPC processors are used in the Gamecube, Wii, Xbox 360, and the PS3's cell processor is a PowerPC variant fully compatible with regular PowerPC (shorthand for PowerPC is just PPC), and if you've played those systems, they perform very well for what they are intended to do (one thing at a time, play a single videogame). PowerPC's aren't exactly the greatest processor in the world for desktop computers (multiprocessing, x86's are better at this), and Apple was somewhat idiotic in using them for the longest time, but ever since they've made the jump to x86 processors, performance (at least with Universal binary and Intel-only programs) is altogether better compared to the last highest end G5/PPC based Macs, and even a few non-Universal programs work better on Intel Macs (I've only *heard* performance is better, I've never used PPC Macs very much myself). I would've likely never made the switch to getting a Mac, had Apple never switched to x86, seeing I'm a Linux user, and in the future Linux will be much more usable on Intel Macs, and drivers will be usable, especially video card drivers.

Carmack is right about Vista not being needed by most consumers, and DX10 could easily be implemented into Windows XP, but Microsoft obviously needs more reasons for consumers to jump into Vista, which is understandable, because they need software sales to stay in business. I still will probably NEVER get Vista (even if it becomes as perfect as POSIX-based operating systems), because I'm getting closer and closer to cutting my reliance on Windows entirely, which comes with cutting various Windows-only games from my life, but I'm living with it well enough (and the Mac version of Cave Story helps too. Hope you know about that version, Sheir).

Also strange is that I notice a few games in Linux run better than they ever did in Windows, on the same hardware. Stepmania is the main game I notice, because in Windows the framerate is just fine, but it stutters sometimes, which makes the game annoying as hell to play (think losing a massive combo JUST BECAUSE OF A STUTTER), but in Linux it runs smooth all the time, stuttering only on extremely rare occasions. Mac OS X is similar in performance, but my Mac is much higher end than my Windows/Linux computer, so it can't be very fairly compared.

I may have deviated a bit from the original topic, but I kinda wanted to say all this crap, and I don't care if nobody ever reads it.