Back To Xp?

Originally Posted by Cam

...and some stuff may not have very compatible drivers or any drivers at all.

This.

I had to revert back to XP because there were no good drivers available for most of my networking hardware, and a lot of other peripherals I have for my computer. There were drivers out there, but they ran like total shit. And I'm not going to buy a whole bunch of new hardware just to get stuff optimized for Vista when my old stuff works just fine on XP.

XP also outperforms for most uses in terms of system resources. The only reason I could really see using Vista is for DX10-required games.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Arainach

Oh, please. The driver issue has been solved since 6 months after Vista's release. Vista runs far faster on both my laptop and desktop than XP did - the 'slow' complaints are of people comparing freshly-installed systems. Vista takes about a week to get used to your habits and get the caching working right, but after that, it flies compared to XP. It's considerably more secure, it looks better - it's the superior operating system in every way.

A computer I got 3 months ago had driver issues, and I had been using Vista for more than a week, installing all the updates, and downloading driver after driver, still to no avail. And I'm not even talking about obscure hardware things here (linksys wireless card/router). You've just been lucky.

It's nice when things work. But it's a pain in the ass when they don't. I guess it depends on whether you like taking risks or not. Personally, I didn't experience anything "positive" enough while using Vista to make it worth it. Sure, it's prettier than XP, but if I want a pretty OS, I'll hop on my Powerbook and eyegasm over Aqua/Leopard.

There's nowhere I can't reach.