I have 4 OS'S on my system, it seems to me that microsoft is going to have to find a way for vista too outperform the others, the OS i prefer is XP Professional, Vista is good if you can manipulate the OS , For heavy duty Gaming or advanced video, I find XP to be more responsive, atleast until vendors works the bugs out of thier code..

As usual with microsoft, they delayed the OS from comming out and never ironed out the bugs, the same happened with XP, only Vista was to have the new and improved filing system, better then NTFS, for not only improved security , but better performance under strain, unfortunatly XP is or was killing it.

That is probably the best explanation to current problems. It is just understanding the program and how it differs and works.

and people wonder why i stick to the penguin bah on windoze, go with *nix

I've tried Vista on a laptop that is "Vista ready." It came with XP Media Centre on it.

It now has XP on it again.

Be careful retro fitting a computer with XP from Vista. Some of the new hardware won't work with XP.

Linux is a great way to go, if you can work with command line interface. The GUI (graphical user interface) in Ubuntu is great though. The only difficulty I see here is in finding the drivers that work well with the hardware. Most hardware manufacturers don't write the drivers for Linux, and sometimes it can be a real pain to find the drivers that will work with your chosen hardware.

I have heard this from a few people as the primary reason that they won't switch over to *nix. I don't buy it personally though. I've been running it for about the last 3 to 4 years. The biggest headache I've had with it was installing and running Sun Java (I love my Yahoo! games, what can I say) and that was only about a 20 minute headache at worst. Other than that I've never had any problems finding any drivers for any hardware I've installed.
Now one of the biggest problems with the linix o/s's is what's called dependancy h*%$. This is where you try to install program A and find out it requires programs B and C, you go to install B and it requires programs 1, 2 and 3 (and so on and so on) but if you stick to one of the bigger distributions such as *ubuntu, Debian, Fedora that include a package manager then that is reduced to near nothing.
Oh and I very rarely have to go command line with this thing. There are three primary packages for a GUI (gnome, kde and xfce) and all are very good. (i prefer kde coz it has some killer eye candy available for it). but if you do find yourself having to run command line there are some wonderful tutorials on the web to get you through it. and do we even talk about how most viruses are innefective against a computer with the power of the penguin?
(ok enough of me sounding like a geek)

DI;

I agree with you completely. *ubuntu is fantastic in the newest form.

The problem comes in when, in the rare occasion as you indicate, one must go to the command line. It scares the life and adventure out of most folk who have never seen one.

Personally, I started with computers back in 1977 and the now "ancient" Trash 80. I've done machine level programming, and still bash my knuckles when swinging a hammer.

Cheers

so you would actually understand the statement of "there are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't"

Yup indeed, then came octal and hex.

Being 0011 0101 years old allowed me to get to know a bit about bits :-)

In my opinion vista is the best.Vista looks nice .Windows Vista added new features such as improved security,better overall user experience.Windows Vista features a totally different look for its interface—a cleaner, transparent look with impressive graphic quality, not to mention Live Icons and the new Windows Flip 3D feature.

i'd rather downgrade my computer from vista to xp if i were you... for me vista really sucks a lot!