Windows Vista Premium

[Flashlab]

I bought a laptop last year with XP with an update to Vista which came out later. I installed Vista and frankly it sucked. I went back to XP in less than two weeks.

Why?

It was noticably slower than XP.
It continously bugged me with all kind of requestors.
It wasn't compatible with all software I have (Magix Music maker; I know sucky program but I just wanted to try it).

[Flashlab]

My laptop is dual core; so yes it's slower the XP on that too.

The requestors are of the "Are you sure you want to...?" kind and pop up everywhere.

I'll stick with XP for some years. In the future you can't ignore Vista probably because software will demand Vista or DirectX 10 I guess.

Vista really has gotten me interested in Macs to be honest: I'm considering selling my laptop to buy a MacBook Pro.

[Flashlab]

@ DMaster

Well, it bugs me that some people won't let others have their opinion without saying it tires them.

I have paid for the Vista upgrade and I don't like it; I'm not   paying to not like it, ok? Am I to work with an OS I don't like to let it grow on me so that I may love in the future? That's some twisted thinking there...

I have a pretty powerfull laptop; it can run Vista with all bells and whistles in Aero. If you want eye candy; I was more impressed with the Ubuntu live cd I tried and that was free.

[Flashlab]

Yes there is. You can have a Windows Classic desktop if you want. Somehow the icons looked ugly though (big blocks around them like WB3.0/1 ;-))but you can probably fix that too.