Anyone tried the Vista beta 2 yet?

PC_Arcade

Gonna install it over the next day or so, anyone tried it yet?

What's it like?

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PC_Arcade wrote:

Gonna install it over the next day or so, anyone tried it yet?

What's it like?

Haven't tried it yet but i'm curious :beerchug:

Lux Delux · **Posted:** Mon Jun 12, 2006 11:45 am **Post subject:**

Don't have another computer to test shit like that, but I hope it will be better than XP :lol:

Im currently getting some kinda XP Borg edition :wacky:

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Mon Jun 12, 2006 4:58 pm **Post subject:**

No, given the pain in the ass 64bit support finding drivers and installing applications, i don't trust adoption of a "bit-player" os until full, single version retail.

In other words, i doubt i'll install it until its a RC.

Lux Delux · **Posted:** Mon Jun 12, 2006 5:50 pm **Post subject:**

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well maybe if you didn't have an illegeal copy of Windows XP, that stuff wouldn't happen to you Lux

Pikman · **Posted:** Mon Jun 12, 2006 7:01 pm **Post subject:**

I tried it and had endless headaches trying to get a samba share working for teh xbox. I gave up in the end and reinstalled xp :s

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Mon Jun 12, 2006 7:04 pm **Post subject:**

you mean just normal shares?
\\CompName\ShareName doesn't work? That's extrememly odd, that's a very, very old protocol, i can't believe they could possibly have been so incompetant to make default shares incompatible.

Things like that, but mainly drivers, is why I always wait for RCs. The bugs and lack of hardware support just means its too much work.

Apart from that, how does it perform/look? 64bit?

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Mon Jun 12, 2006 7:23 pm **Post subject:**

I'm running it now (this is my first post using it) - It's got a nice interface, I'll keep you posted as I use it more

Pikman · **Posted:** Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:07 pm **Post subject:**

More info about the smb share issue here
I was more interested in the media center extender built into it for the 360 but it seems that feature is for our cross-atlantic chums only at the moment.

Lemme know if you get samba working PC_Arcade. I might give it another go.

BTW any "issues" with you 360 since the dash update?

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:20 pm **Post subject:**

I'll give SMB a go in a sec, no issues with the dash update........Yet

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:58 pm **Post subject:**

SMB = no go

and the extender doesn't work either - shite :lol:

Pikman · **Posted:** Tue Jun 13, 2006 9:35 am **Post subject:**

Bah!

I agree it does have a nice gui but it seems desperatley complicated to get it to do stuff that was simple with xp. I hope they haven't spent more time working on the eye candy than the core systems.

George Tatum · **Posted:** Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:43 am **Post subject:**

I'm not sure what OS to run next. I am still running XP with SP1, with all the added crap in SP2 I didn't trust it not to be calling home, turns out my suspicions were valid.

If SP2 calls home then I reckon so will Vista. Linux and WINE anyone? I've used various flavours of Unix extensively so Linux should be no problem to me, but I want to be able to run Windoze software, hence WINE.

Anyone tried the Vista beta 2 yet?

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