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Scytale:
I'm pretty much a Linux convert so I'm not going to use Vista on my PC's anytime in the future, but I've just been given the task of investigating porting over  a whole lot of OGS control room software at work to a windows platform, so I'm probably going to have to get aquainted with it in the near future, or at least whatever the server edition of Vista is called.

My 2 big complaints about it are the DRM restrictions, which are complete crap and the lack of fine-grained control it gives you over the computers hardware, which probably isn't going to be a huge deal for the average user.

The other big thing, which Microsoft must be kicking themselves about is Vista not shipping with the new shell (MSH), having a shell that can leverage the .NET libraries is a really awesome idea, especially given WSH's  piss poor regular expression support etc. The scripting lanuage it uses looks pretty nifty as well like a combination of BASH and C#, for me its a must have if you're going to be admining a windows box. I'd reccomend anyone running Vista at the moment download it from MSDN, if they haven't allready, it's seriously one of the coolest things Microsoft has come up with in a while.

So I guess my conclusion is if you're prepared to pay the money for it and you don't really care about DRM then yeah go for it, otherwise stick with XP.

öde:
My only problem with Vista is that if I got it I'd void a load of stuff by disabling all the crap I don't like.

Reminds me of the thing I hated most in XP, you didn't have 'permission' to stop certain processes.

Jenno:
I have 2 problems ruining Vista for me at the moment.

1. Nvidia drivers at the moment are basically just plain shit, this goes for the nforce4 ones and the graphics ones. I am having so many issues with these that I've moved back to XP for all gaming. The nforce4 raid support is basically non-existent in Vista as well, which made it a bit of a pain to install.

2. The security warnings are way too frequent and invasive, I feel that by flashing the whole screen and annoying the fuck out of me I'm becoming desensitised to the dialog and just clicking through out of instinct. The security dialogs also spawn for the most mundane shit, this is something that Microsoft should have just copied verbatim from Mac OS X because the Vista way of doing it is really frustrating for the user.

Apart from that, all is peachy.

Scytale:
if you want to complain about Nvidia drivers try running Linux...

I've had so many issues with Kmod-Nvidia in the past including one that wouldn't let me boot into run level 5 arrghh...

Jenno:
Weirdly enough, the linux drivers have always worked great for me.  :laugh:

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