Quote Originally Posted by Dan R Porter View Post
I am a proud Vista man... funny how everyone hates Microsoft stuff when it comes out, XP was the end of PC's as we knew it, now everyone is hating vista and screaming "give me xp!" haha the computer world is so funny.
Vista deserved the hatred when it came out, but part of that falls on the PC makers, many who threw Vista on machines that should never have had Vista in the first place. My mom had bought a laptop when Vista first came out, one of the $400 walmart specials, and that thing CRAWLED at any and every task. It took me 3 hours to 'set up' the PC so that she could turn it on and go online. (And I am just referring to Vista's first time running procedure.) Finally, I installed Linux over it, a task that was completed faster then it would even boot up into Vista.

When I bought my laptop a few months back, I was prepared to dump the drive and turn it into Linux, but the PC handles Vista quite nicely, so I am keeping it on there.