Originally posted by 1Way>
So...seeing as your an expert on Vista and how crappy it is....which version have you run and what is your EXACT personal experience with it?
I am condemned by occupation to know more about Vista than anyone around me. It's crap. Come to think of it, so is XP. Linux is about the same anymore. OpenBSD is still doing pretty good, but put a GUI on it and it's crap. FreeBSD is in the same boat, even with Darwin running as the X manager.
I run ALL of them; we are Gold Certified Partners and have the open license and MSDN to run anything our pathetic little hearts desire. I have Vista Enterprise on my personal laptop at the moment, but my work laptop runs Linux with an XP VM for those things that need Microsloth products. My desktop is also running Vista Enterprise, and when Symantec writes an anti-virus (Trendware) that works on it I'll be happier. Veritas's BackupExec runs poorly, if at all, and I'm pretty good at hacking or I never would have gotten our VPN-1 client to work. Pure crap.
Vista is the king of the crap pile at the moment, but once Microsloth forces vendors to write decent drivers it will fall back into the pile with the rest of the OSs. Then again, M$ has done so much to make sure you don't have permission to run anything, and they take up more CPU cycles to look like a Mac than the old Cray I played with at NCSA, I'm not sure it will ever really sink into the morass of existing OSs.
Sure, if you have so much horsepower you can impress your friends with the pretty red liquid cooling rig (I prefer to put peltiers under those blocks) you can get reasonable performance, assuming you use hardware blessed by Redmond. If you're Joe User who buys Dells because they neither know nor care what a CAS is, you're pretty much screwed.
Personally I don't think Vista is worth the cost of the hardware to run it, YMMV. If you want pretty run Beryl or MacOS. If you want to do work run XP, which is mature enough to be useful, or MacOS, or your Linux varient of choice if you want to go the open source route.
In the mean time feel free to love Vista. That's your prerogative and you appear to be well versed enough to make it work well. For people who haven't been screwing around with computers since the 6502 was hot stuff (that's the bugged version, of course) and the 8086 was the competition I'd say stick with XP.
Loudest darn pin I've ever heard. Wish I'd worn hearing protection.
