Just what is your problem with Vista?
Reading some comments on the forums and the front page, a lot of folks seems to have negative opinions as regards Vista - is this true?
I've been running Vista Ultimate on my (now aging) Thinkpad T42 for a while now, and have no complaints whatsoever. True, it took a bit of getting used to, I had to wait for some programs (like TrueCrypt) to be updated, but its a wonderful, clean and modern user experience - so why do so many people hate it?
Reasons I am not prepared to accept:
1) That it requires a "killer" machine with 2TB of RAM, 4 graphics cards, 2 dual-core processors and a massive hard drive. It does not. It runs just sweet on any computer that is relatively new. For older kit, you can turn Aero Glass off.
2) That some things don't work yet - maybe so, but get over it, Vista is new. Anyone who has been into computing for a while will recall that it was the same with XP when it first came out, and 98, and 95, etc, etc... software and drivers take a little time to catch up, that's hardly Microsoft's fault.
Actually, I have found that just about everything works just fine, you now and again have to run things as Administrator but as far as I am concerned that's the same in Linux as well.
3) That its just XP with a new interface. Get a grip, do you know anything about computers at all? There's a whole host of changes that have been made, and welcome ones at that. XP is out of date and Vista has given Windows a much needed update.
If you have anything negative (or otherwise) to say about it that's not 1), 2) or 3) then I'd love to hear it. Just what is people's problem???
I'm no fan of Microsoft specifically - readers who know me (both from the forums and from posting on the front news page) will know that I embrace all computing and that I have been an advocate of Linux since its early days. But I think Microsoft have done a good job of Vista and a lot of the criticism seems unfounded IMHO.