f***, i actually like vista and agree with mongie;

i must be wrong

i find vista to be fast and stable as, once ive turned off all the gay

no issues with drivers for anything (even old joypads), not even for 64bit drivers

so i can just re-install it without any authentication bs... even on a different machine.

Um.. dude, XP has activation.

no microsoft product really requires a legit serial number - you can just ring them and they will give you one.

Vista Cons:
rapes system
compatibility issues (hardware & software)
dramas
gay networking interface
did I mention slow?
bloaty

Can't say I really agree at all. My system is over 3 years old, and is nice and snappy running Vista 64bit, as well as NEVER having a single hardware compatibility issue. The only software incompatibility I've encountered was when I tried to install Metal Gear Sold 2. I didn't bother trying to troubleshoot it.

And browsing networks is WAY faster for me on Vista than it ever was on XP. Everything pops up almost as fast as browsing a local folder, which is more than I can say with my experiences with XP.

Overall, I don't think Vista is better or worse than XP. I can understand people's hesitation to upgrade to Vista, as it doesn't offer much of an advancement, but I can't say I ever regretted installing it.

yeah i never regret installing bloat.

my computar is so powarful it eats up the bloat

I dunno what you guys are talking about, I purchased Vista 64bit Ultimate and have no issues apart from TF2 crashing sometimes on map changes which doesn't bother me as I usually play on static map servers. No compatability issues, everything works. Runs faster than my XP 32bit machine.

There isn't really any reason to use 64bit windows anyway - but yeah - there is no issue with speed or compatibility with Vista... especially post SP1.

3+ GB of ram is cool though.

There were also no where near as many people frequenting the internet when XP came out. Now with the internet a norm in every household, people's opinions spread like wildfire, valid or not.

get f***ed, 2002 wasn't exactly the dark ages.

Vista is fine. I didn't like it at first because features/things I'd want weren't where I wanted them to be, so it frustrated me. I turned off UAC and changed a few things around, it's find now. Rarely I find a program that I used on XP that doesn't work on vista.

The next windows will be different, and hated even more.

remember everyone having a mega cry when xp was introduced? everyone was all 'windows 2000 for lyfe'.

history repeats itself.

After a service pack or two, XP became very stable and grew in popularity. After SP1 Vista is still crap and hated as ever. Plus I don't remember there being so much talk about downgrading an OS as there has been with Vista->XP.

The misleading "Vista Ready" crap on low-end hardware didn't help either.

is nice and snappy running Vista 64bit, as well as NEVER having a single hardware compatibility issue.

My audio glitched and skipped. It's easy to blame the manufacturer for "crap dirvers" but my Audigy 4 has run flawlessly in XP and Ubuntu. The audio problems are widespread too, not just for me.

Oh and Vista x64's mandatory driver signing is complete and utter bulls***. I'm unable to install a couple of hardware drivers that are fundamentally x64 compatible ... only because the developers (open-source) didn't have the resources to go through the financial and developmental hurdles of MS driver signing. At least give the option of allowing the user to bypass signing .. fkn d*******s.