Who on earth told you that?XPSP3 = great, Vista Ultimate = serviceable, and necessary in some specific cases, Ubuntu = Godlike.

Note: I actually use XP myself, despite my raves for Ubuntu. I just don't want to bother converting files for an hour or running an XP emulator every time I want to play some srsgaminz.

Interesting how misconceptions get spread around.

I'm not running Vista on a dinosaur, it's a dual core 4400+ with 2Gb memory, 8800GT and 1.5Tb of S3 drives, Vista rating 5.9.

Simply put, it doesn't matter what super OP spec you have, some games run faster on XP than Vista.

And no matter what you say, the Vista start menu is crap and the folder mouseover is annoying.

I have Vista 64 installed on a second partition - I can find no good reason to use it...

All you folks that have "Vista problems" either have:

1) A PoS computer/computer hardware

2) Substandard computer hardware

or

3) Computer hardware whose Vista drivers are sh*t

The OS itself is the best Microsoft ever released, and will continue to be, until Windows 7 is RTM. Don't bitch about the OS, when it is your hardware or your hardware drivers fault!

RottGutt

I was thinking about this aspect also and I think that for those that have just upgraded their OS, they would be able to discern a difference using the same hardware, in a general sense. my old graphic card was good enough for XP but for vista, forget it. now with a new CPU running vista 64bit, gtx285 video card and 12 gigs ram, I have no problems. I find vista to be annoying with all of it's "are you sure you want to do this" pop-ups or reminding me that I have a specific "security feature" turned off every time I boot. I'll be taking a good hard look at win7 when it gets released, to upgrade.

RottGutt, you are funny man.

You paid for Vista? Lol

I didn't even have Vista until I bought my laptop with a Vista Home 32 preinstalled. It lasted about 2 minutes, before being axed by 7 last week.

Lol

32? ew ew ew.

I have vista on 2 machines much better than XP, I have one machine set up in a dual boot congiguration Vista on one hD and W7 Rc1 on another HD, I like what I have seen of W& infact I am using it more than Vista right now., of course WB and Icon Packager does not work on the W7 machine it is 64 bit. I used Winstep for Start bar on both vista and W7

I knew that, Fuzzy, I remember when you built it... around about the same time I went AMD.  Hope you don't think my earlier post was aimed at you, cos that was more a tongue-in-cheek dig at the general dislike of Vista, that many people tried to run it on below par hardware and were thus disappointed when it ran like a hairy goat with its legs hobbled.

For me, it's a case of 'each to his own', and as I recall, you prefer XP for gaming reasons and not particularly liking the Vista GUI, which is fair enough.  What I could never understand was people blaming the OS when they had installed it on pre-P4/pre-dual core equipment with 512mb of RAM and expected it to fly... was much like putting a Mini Minor motor under the hood of an E-Type Jag and expecting it still to do 0 to 60 in under 10 seconds.... then blaming Jaguar because it can't.

Oh well, Vista is old hat now.... gotta get ready for the raft of Win 7 haters.

When i went to Vista I lost all faith in Microsoft. I was done with em.

Now running Win7. that has changed. Win 7 has been fantastic for me (still can't print). If it only gets better from here on I would say Microsoft has a good future ahead. I'll be skipping Win 8 though based on Ms's record.

My only problem wih vista is its unnecisary large size. Its like my pc is a cripple. I buy it thinking wow-this is plenty fast and powerful for anything i do on a pc. Only to later find out that vista hogs about half of it to itself.

And the milllion prompts of 'are you SURE youi want to do that?...' are getting a bit irritating...

You do know you can turn that off right?

1) Go to Control Panel.

2) Go to "User Accounts" (i use the "Classic View of the control panel)

3) Then at your user account simply disable it.

I got BSOD with vista.. but that wasnt because of vista.. it was because i needed to update my bios.. I had the same issues when i tried running XP(before i figured out i needed to update my bios) But my pc would just reboot in xp.. no bsod(and i turned off the auto reboot too)

Other than the bios problem i've had ZERO problems with Vista.. No software issues.. nothing.. People just need to learn how to use it properly.. and it isnt even very hard.

Most of the business world skipped upgrading to Vista based on recommendations from their IT professionals. I suppose they could all be wrong.