To Vista or not to Vista?

[General SP]

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.

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.

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.

Vista is all about the hardware. It will run on older systems like mine for example (2.4 ghz 3 gb SLI video ) however it runs best on the newer stuff. Dual core works the best and unless you are running the 64bit version of it, you really do not need any more memory over 3gb. The new laptops Jim should run it very well. I always have occasional shutdowns from time to time but then again due to the older hardware I am using.

As far as tweeking it, almost the same as XP. Same registry system but way better user functions and the parental controls work very very well. Minesweeper rocks in Vista! I guess I can live with tempermental side of it until they get it stable. I remember when i considered many times reloading Windows 98 because I was tired of XP's unstableness! :)