[dobbles]

having given vista a second try, i have went back to xp again.

i first tried vista at work back when the enterprise edition first got released. december of 06 or something? the whole IT department was trying it to get used to it for when users inevitably had problems. it was buggy as all getout and we all eventually went back to XP. i made it the longest; something like 7 or 8 months.

so after that experience, i pretty much hated vista and uninstalled it off any new computers i bought personally. a few months back i finally decided to give it another go now that its had time to settle and work out its kinks. it totally nerfed my laptop. the single core mobile processor couldn't keep up and even 2 gigs of ram wasn't enough to salvage it. my desktop wasn't so bad as far as performance as it had a dual core in it and a good video card. but my video card (6600gt) was a bit old and never got along with vista and caused all sorts of problems. i tried different drivers and various setting but always had problems. actually just bit the bullet and did a low level reformat of that computer last night.

long story short, i personally feel like after all this time vista should be a lot more usable. it just seems silly that so many workarounds are still needed to make vista a decent operating system. not to mention its still pretty silly that you should need such a good computer to run it. sure, powerful computers are cheap and prevalent these days, but that doesn't mean i should have to use 50% of my system just to power the OS.

/end rant.