Vista or XP

[zetec452]

XP no contest. (after Ubuntu)

~S

Says it all TBH.

Vista for me, I've tried Ubuntu and other Linux distros and none of them come close to delivering the functionality and user experience vista does. XP is great but if you have the hardware to run vista then why not?

Unfortunately HP shipped my 64bit PC with a 32bit OS.

 

[Macro]

I see you didn't argue with 1,2 and 3 though

~S

Well 1 & 2 are personal choice and nothing to do with Vista. If your hardware is of an age it can only handle a 5 year old OS and not take advantage of the progress in technology fair enough. If you have decided that the extra features and inprovements in Windows aren't sufficient for you to spend money on then likewise.

3 is really grasping at straws to be honest. You could just as easily say any security feature or DRM/copy protection of any OS or technology is a target including *nix, Apple, Blu-ray etc.

People with vaulable IP assests will not make them available unless they can be protected from the dishonest that think the world owes them something for nothing. The dishonest will try and bypass it, the legitimate owners will try and come up with new ways to protect it in an ongoing cycle. It only ends up causing inconvinience to the honest consumers that have enough morals to understand that it's right to pay for the product of someone elses labour just the same as they get paid for their own work.

Out of your 9 or so points the only two that really stand up are the ones about your personal prefernce, and that has nothing to do with the OS, just your personal choice. /shrug

 

[Sp!ke]

Says it all TBH.

So because I use and prefer Ubuntu I must be a linux fanboy? Of my 7 machines only 1 is running linux, I have to admit it's the most fun, but I'm not a fanboy.

3 is really grasping at straws to be honest. You could just as easily say any security feature or DRM/copy protection of any OS or technology is a target including *nix, Apple, Blu-ray etc.

I quite agree but because Vista will soon have the lions share of the market it becomes a bigger target, especially with the tilt bit. How many virii/exploits are there for *nix/osx/me/2000 etc? Few, simply because they do not have a large user base and in with *nix especially the security is much better.

snip... It only ends up causing inconvinience to the honest consumers snip...

And again I agree? But why should I put up with reduced quality because people are pirating CD's and I'm playing premium content?

Any you believe it? Waw, mad!!

If it were Linus Torvalds, Steve Jobs, Alan Cox, or Theo de Raadt then I would say it was just MS bashing. But Gutmann doesn't have an axe to grind, so yes, in general I do.

Anyway I didn't want to turn this into a troll, sorry about that, they were my opinions from using it and looking into Vista, nothing more. My mistake, I'll go back to more enjoyable things.

For the slightly more open minded:

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

~S