I've been running Vista for over a year and have no issues with it.
Depending upon your computer, it may be a hog. The thing they put in Vista to try and make it look "pretty" is called Aero, and that needs a fair bit of memory (2 GB or more) and a pretty good CPU. If your computer is a bit older, you should be able to turn off Aero and it shouldn't be too bad (well, unless you have a really old and/or slow computer).
BTW, Vist always looks like it uses a lot of memory. This is by design. In XP and older, the operating system would try to free up memory by moving programs that weren't being used to the hard drive page file. Vista did this different, as it tries to load up as much as it can into memory, and only page things when it needs to free memory. So In Vista it always looks liek a resource hog, even if it isn't.
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