My university's moved to vista. and the 2ghz odd pcs are slowwwww. the people at uni are also offering 45% discount on vista student pack thingies, but i'm not getting.
you see, i've recently converted to linux. Ubuntu, to be exact. i've used fedora core and knoppix live before this, and they were harddd and butt ugly. not ubuntu.
vista has holes m$ don't tell you about.
for example, its on an improved version of NTFS. but still no journalling. load shedding while copying folders? byebye data. it is a lot more reliable than the FAT32 days though, but it doesn't have ext3's absolute data retention.
sidebar? i muchos like. ten points to m$ for that one.
the new start menu? heh. too much of clutter and too many options. you'll tire of it after a while. remember when xp came out with that new start menu? yes. looks to me they've just moved things around and added more menus.
live thumbnails: another 10/10. but beryl has it. pretty useful thing.
breadcrumbs? heh. Nautilus has had that for a few years now. that and tags/emblems are built in to the ext3 filesystem.
flip3d? wow. the winkey+tab thing in beryl's real 3d. i advise you to check out beryl. infact, check this vista vs. ubuntu video:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xC5uEe5OzNQ
backup and restore? ext3 means my settings and software and files are on different partitions within one filesystem. i re-install an OS and loose nothing. it reboots to exactly where i left off. move on, m$.
user folders? again, an ext3 ripoff. but they forgot to steal virtual/dynamic folder linking.
media player 11? i loved it until about my 70th GB of music. then it slowed down and i moved to foobar. now that i'm on linux, its rhythmbox.
IE7? isn't that a bug? firefox FTW.
windows calendar is again, stolen from evolution.
photo gallery? Apple iPhoto ripoff. f-spot on linux takes only 300K ram and organizes photos by metadata and compound tag searches. like itunes for photos.
readyboost sounds lovely.
i'll be doing a comprehensive ubuntu review soon.
and just-for-the-record, i'm not dissing your review. it was a brilliant review. vista doesn't blow me away, it just blows.