I've been running Vista on my desktop since July. I think that it's about time for the OS to go, and for me to replace it with something else. I've had numerous stability issues with the operating system. The device driver support is certainly lacking - no wireless network card seems to have anything other than beta drivers - and I have a 5 minute minesweeper break each morning since that's roughly how long it takes for the wireless network to reactive itself.
The system is also approximately as slow as molasses. It's not a problem with the components - it's all new stuff and not bargain basement. Some of the slowness is intentional - that ever annoying DRM. Some of the slowness is just ridiculous - I remember it taking nearly a minute to extract about 10 files from a 250 kilobyte zip file.
Some wish for Microsoft to simply ditch the OS and move on:
While Vista was originally touted by Microsoft as the operating system savior we've all been waiting for, it has turned out to be one of the biggest blunders in technology. With a host of issues that are inexcusable and features that are taken from the Mac OS X and Linux playbook, Microsoft has once again lost sight of what we really want. - Don Reisinger - CNET
It seems that I'm not the only one interesting in a switch - computer manufacturers have been responding by introducing "downgrades" to XP. Microsoft has had to do the same for corporate customers and also extend the lifetime of XP. For me the question is: XP or Linux?
Most of the eye-candy that's new to Vista has been around in both Linux and Mac OS for what seems to have been an age and a half. XP, on the other hand, means the ability to deal with audiobook DRM
