well not so much brain damage....but seriously....do any of you get really bad headaches after looking at aero graphics over long periods of time. I was almost sick after just a couple of hours after installing it. I also love the mouse lag as i move the cursor across the screen. The verdict is in....I do not like and will not keep vista....glad i did not pay for it....muhahaahah

Heres a short list of my dislikes for those looking to upgrade.
1. HEADACHES
2. lost 40 fps in CSS..wtf
3. only new feature that i would use is .......hold em? wtf #2
4. Windows mail wont import hotmail accounts.
5. Driver support is lackluster.
a. hp photosmart 7550 rendered practically useless
b. x-fi software rendered completely useless
c. norton antivirus corporate useless
d. creative nx webcam useless
6. UNSTABLE
7. questions EVERY action
8. is readyboost even necessary if you have 2 gig of ram.
9. xp pagefile usage was ~300, vista~700. yuck
10. IE7 seems incredibly slow on vista compared to XP

To sum it up....i dont like it....and ill wait to upgrade until a better option comes along.

Wallet damage is another side effect of Vista; at least M$ did not get your money.

Checkout PCLinuxOS I will be installing this weekend.... so cool.

Really? What are your specs, and what version did you install that caused all this incompatibility and loss of performance?

"Unstable" ????

I'd have to ask why. I installed Vista Ultimate and it's been the pinnacle of stability. Better than XP which wasn't bad at all. I'd have to suspect a poorly written driver.

Ah ! You must have a lot of time to waste then.

Ah ! You must have a lot of time to waste then.

No, I ran the Live CD and believe its worth my time to install, but I'm willing to listen why PCLinuxOS will be a waste.

If you perfer, please PM.

Im running an fx-60 at 3.02 with 2 gig of ram at ddr550. 7900 gtx. 150gb raptor, x-fi fatality. Vista Ultimate. As far as instability.....Several programs I installed would cause windows to geek out and then tell me that it had not installed correctly. I dont think it has to do with a driver being incompatable, because after reinstallation it worked fine. Another instability issues is my games crashing to desktop.....repeatedly. machine is rock solid stable on xp pro....so thats what ill stay with....and i think id have a better chance at creating cold fusion then getting my computer to work with linux. by the way the magical window experience rated this machine with a marvelous 5.4, only for the processor speed. other than that 5.9s across the board.

Oh I don't mind posting it to the boards.

I've run nearly every popular version of Linux (see below) since RH 4.0 and none of them offer the ease of configuration, driver support, application availability and speed of a finely tuned Windows system.

Red Hat, Fedora, SUSE, Mandrake, Mepis, Slackware, Ubuntu, Foresight, Vector, CentOS, Scientific Linux, Xandros, Zenwalk, KateOS, Damn Small, Feather, Puppy, Turbo, Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu, Peanut, FreeBSD, NetBSD, PC-BSD and several others I can't even remember anymore !

I get that Windows popup about using Windows recommended options to reinstall and I usually ignore it. I usually have no problems and the few times I did have an issue and actually used the Windows recommended, the app installed but ended up having issues while it ran. As for gaming, the only game so far that I have tried that crashes for me is GalCivII, always at the same point in the game so it's not a driver. There are some game patches released recently that I'm going to try. I also found that if you have Windows Media Center recording something not to run anything that eats up CPU cycles like BOINC (which can take 100% if you let it) or it will just stop recording without error when the CPU reaches its peak IO.

I do like DS for the ability to run completely in such a small amount of RAM without a CD or hard disk in place. Now, if it would just recognize all of my hardware I would use it as a small home server.

Oh I don't mind posting it to the boards.

I've run nearly every popular version of Linux (see below) since RH 4.0 and none of them offer the ease of configuration, driver support, application availability and speed of a finely tuned Windows system.

Red Hat, Fedora, SUSE, Mandrake, Mepis, Slackware, Ubuntu, Foresight, Vector, CentOS, Scientific Linux, Xandros, Zenwalk, Katies, Damn Small, Feather, Puppy, Turbo, Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu, Peanut, FreeBSD, NetBSD, PC-BSD and several others I can't even remember anymore !
but you have to admit, when it comes to stability and footprint size, Linux beats Microsoft. Each OS has there forte. I keep saying that there is no clearly superior OS but no one seems to get it.

In most of the places I've worked, an implementation of Unix/Solaris for Oracle databases, Linux webservers (for most web apps) and MS for desktops and domain controllers is really stable, cost effective for most business functions, and pretty easy to manage because only 1 OS has to be known by the different IT departments as they are usually broken down by management.

That and they do disable a lot of privileges on the workstations.

I think Linux is more customizable _if one wants to put the time into it_ but the last time I loaded one up it took more system resources to run than XPSP2 and in fact was quite comparable to Vista. As to stability, the differences are minimal on comparable "good' systems. Linux will run stable on any system though and under any load for any length of time making it perfect for inexpensive servers. Note that I had previously made the comparison of a 4X4 truck (Linux) and a sports car (Windows) and it still holds true. For workstation use Windows is at least as good as long as the cache hit doesn't go over 3GB. Linux simply doesn't care about load. It will work and work until the hardware fails. It's not particularly quick nor as efficient at most tasks as is Windows, but it's not about to take a BSOD break.

Right on the money !

[EDIT] P.S. Whoever in bloody Hell got the idea of starting every application name with a freakin "K" should be stood up at attention and given a Max Wedgie until their eyeballs roll back !