BloodyBlade wrote:I don't know where you get all the vista hate from, I've been using it since it came out and I didn't have any problems with it.
Windows Vista has a lot of issues. Driver compatibility, application compatibility. UAC is getting about as "popular" as Clippy. UAC I think was a good idea, but poorly executed. Networking in Vista just doesn't seem to work right. I've known many people who had issues getting Vista and XP to see each other on the network and share files.
At one company I worked for, we had a Win2k3 file server sharing out all of our documents for the employees. We got a few Vista laptops and started using them. Vista had a problem accessing network shares. You could open up a Word document on the network share through Windows Explorer and edit it. When we attempted to save it, Windows would give an error saying it could not find the path specified (e.g., saving a document to "N:\documents\presentations\product1.ppt" returns error "N:\documents\presentations does not exist. Create?") Of course the presentations folder exists. We always had to save the document locally and then copy/paste it to the network share. Turns out it was a known bug, and you had to do some kind of registry hack to fix it.
That was with a Microsoft product talking to a Microsoft product. Vista has gotten better since its release, after hundreds of patches, but I don't think it has much to offer over XP.
Some of my issues with Windows are not really Vista, but Windows itself. Why does Windows insist on rebooting for so many different changes you can make to its configuration? Years ago, you couldn't even change the screen resolution without rebooting, but at least they fixed that. Linux has no problem upgrading all your packages (apt-get update/upgrade, emerge -uD world, etc) without requiring a reboot, unless you're upgrading the Kernel. Windows wants a reboot for just about every patch it seems.
