windows vista stability vs XP

I know that vista sucks and that I shouldn't even consider this, but my (windows xp home) computer gets a BSOD about once a day, if not more, and the BSOD error messages are incredibly unhelpful for diagnosing the problem. They occur inconsistently, sometimes when I'm sleeping, and I've had it. I might reinstall XP, but if I'm going to use a sucky OS I might as well us a sucky OS that looks nice.
All I want to know is if windows vista (ultimate edition if that matters) is any more stable than XP (home). I know about vista's driver issues, its lack of support for many devices, its low support for programs, its failure at gaming, and most of its other problems. but I just want to know about how stable it is comparable to other windows versions.
thanks in advance,

angrymous

www.linux.com

Thanks, but I like to play PC games. (Why consider vista then? maybe I'll dual boot..)

www.winehq.org

>>3
>>4
fail. games fukken suck.

transgaming.com

If he can't keep Windows at least sort of stable, he'd probably manage to hose a Linux install in no time as well.

Install Win2K.  It's the most stable Windows I ever used.

>>8
they're all the fucking same

>>7
As long as he stays away from the root-account it's practically impossible to hose a Linux-system.

>>1
Probably defective hardware (I'd guess it's the mainboard or RAM).

  [Del]

Anyways, >>1, please listen to me. Not that it's really related to this conversation.
I went to Best Buy to check out Vista a while ago; you know, Windows Vista? Well anyways there was an insane number of people buying it, and I could hardly get around the end of the line. Then, I looked at the banner posted at the top of the retail box glory stack, and it had "CONNECTED" written on it.
Oh, the stupidity. Those idiots. You, don't come to Windows Vista just because it has the internet, fool. It's only the internet, A SERIES OF TUBES for crying out loud. There're even entire families here. Family of 4, all surfing the internet, huh? How fucking nice. "Alright, daddy's gonna run Internet Explorer!" God I can't bear to watch. You people, I'll give you Opera if you get off of this bandwagon.
The software lane of Best Buy should be a bloody place. That tense atmosphere, where two nerds on opposite sides of the aisles can start a slapfight at any time, The stab-or-be-stabbed mentality, that's what's great about Windows Vista. Women and children should screw off and stay home.
Anyways, I was about to start bringing clarity to my world, checking my email and browsing the web, and then the bastard beside me goes "Safeguard my Data With BitLocker Drive Encryption." Who in the world uses BitLocker Drive Encryption, you moron? I want to ask him, "do you REALLY want to have Microsoft perform discreet math on everything in your hard drive?" I want to interrogate him. I want to interrogate him for roughly an hour. Are you sure you don't just want to try saying "Drive Encryption"? Coming from a not4chan veteran such as myself, the latest trend among us vets is this, CP-lab.com. That's right, CP-lab.com (it stands for cryptography - really). This is the vet's way of not getting v&. CP-lab.com means more security than obscurity. But on the other hand the risk of losing files in a hard disk crash is a tad higher. This is the key. And then, it's delicious. This is unbeatable. However, if you do this this then there is danger that you'll be marked by the feds from next time on; it's a double-edged sword. I can't recommend it to amateurs. What this all really means, though, is that you, >>1, should just stick with today's special.

fuck vista.

fuck home editions.

fix'd

>>1
HOW CAN YOU GET FUCKING BSODs EVERY FUCKING DAY I GET A BSOD LIKE ONCE A YEAR IF NOT DECADE.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
YOU THINK YOU'RE TOUGH UH ?
ONE WORD BUY MORE RAM
LURN HOW 2 NOT DL ANYTHING IN THE INTERNETS
WHO CARES ABOUT BSODs' ERROR MESSAGES, WE CARE AS MUCH AS MAC, AS MUCH AS YOU
IF YOU'RE UNHAPPY WITH WINDOWS GET LINUX OR BUY A MAC AND LEARN "I WANNA BE DIFFERENT SO I BOUGHT A MAC AND STARTED BROWSING WITH OPERA"-FAGGOTRY IF YOU DON'T THEN QUIT CRYING ABOUT WINDOWS.

Vista is horribly unstable, in the one week I was using it, it crashed at least a dozen times, I wasn't even playing games or anything most of the time.  I called Best Buy and they said it was probably because I was using "less RAM than recommended."  I told them that I had a gig of RAM and for me to have twice the bare minimum and still have the system crash on a regular basis was pretty fucking ridiculous.  I was using the Home Premium, BTW.  Get Windows 2000 if XP is really giving you that much trouble.

>>14
i did make $3400 net profit from "repairing" vista systems. in only 2 weeks...

>>14
Have you heard of virtual memory? It shouldn't crash because you don't have enough RAM, but it can run fucking slow because of all the swapping.

I haven't seen Vista crash yet, though it's fucking slow even with enough memory. Every game runs the way Oblivion does on XP.

>>12
that's exactly what I was thinking. Why the fuck would anyone use XP home?

>>2
why do people play with linux when you can have unix?

>>16
so how exactly is that "operating a system" if the OS fucks the system?

i dont believe you about not seeing it crash either. i do believe you're full of shit on that account.

>>16

Oblivion runs fast on my system. So every game will run fast if I install Vista?