I’ve been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using it as their primary operating system—it simply has no redeeming merits to overcome the compatibility headaches it causes.
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I've been using Vista on my laptop heavily for quite a few months and I've had no problems that I can think of. It's very stable and everything I use works fine on there, with the exception of a very old copy of ACDSee.
I'm continually surprised at the level of fan-boyism macs generate, versus the general pee-on-thee flack that vista gets. I'm not particularly pre-disposed to either system (being mostly a linux guy), but my experience has been that my vista laptop is significantly more stable than my macbook pro.
Parand Darugar - 20th August 2007 20:43 - #
@Parand: Same here.
I've got a new pc since 3 weeks now.
I just had a problem with a Netgear wireless adaptor, with XAMPP and the Last.fm plugin.
I just had to visit Netgear's website for the driver and Php.net for the php binary package.
For the last.fm plugin, it works but need admin privilege, so it prompt for permission each time I start iTune. I never tried to fix it though.
Vista might not be worth an upgrade, but I don't understand people who want to downgrade their new pc to Windows XP.
I haven't spent any time at all with Vista, but I find it interesting that nearly a year after release people who's opinions I really respect (and who I certainly wouldn't consider categorise as fanboys - Joel wrote much of Excel!) are turning their backs on it.
I continue to believe that Microsoft's number one enemy is backwards compatibility - having to keep all of their old bugs working. I wouldn't be surprised to see a future version of Windows that includes an entirely virtualised copy of XP or similar just to run their old software. It seems to me that they need a complete Mac OS X style clean slate, and virtualising XP (like Apple did with classic) is the only way they could get away with doing that.