To Vista or not to Vista?

[RedDevil]

I initially had vista on my new Desktop for 2 weeks in March, installed a copy of XP onto it until September, I then reformatted and put Vista back on and have not had a system lockup or issue with the exception of Windows mail (vista's answer to outlook express) I use Firefox browser and thunderbird Email with no problems at all.

Vista is a pain in the ass to people who love to tinker or do geeky things with their PC, It's a great OS for anyone who simply turns on the PC and does whatever. My 74 yr old father can manage Vista because it's the 1st OS he's ever used and it's simple enough for him.

older programs will run under some duress and many have updates that allow them to run now. Some programs sadly will not run, but AFAIK ALL of our war games here run on vista with some sort of setting or another.

Chris, vista Self defrags in the background, I've yet to get above 1% fragmentation since September and I was a weekly fan of checking stuff like that :)

Vista has been around long enough to encourage developers to modify their software to work. companies are making patches for hardware issues.. the eventual faults of vista drivers and incompatibilities will be overtaken.

it's all a matter of accepting change right now.. or waiting a year or so, and being behind that much further when you finally do make the switch.

eventually Direct X10 will become the standard and XP cannot emulate that and it will become a pasttime like ME and Win95 did.

there's a lot more support groups out there now and many of the issues I've read about appear to be user fault or old hardware driver failures, rather than OS bugs.