Felicitations, Mr. TigerLovesRooster sir!
Please do not refer to us Mac users as “snobs” who watch Betamax movies. Oh no, sir, we are all very ‘umble, sir. Ever so ‘umble. And we do not watch Betamax, but Blu-ray movies. We watch them ‘umbly in our thatched crofters’ cabins on the moor.
OK, I’ll be the lone voice in the wilderness on this one.
I’m running Vista, with no problems, and I like it a lot.
I’m a systems analyst, and my home setup is a Windows 2008 RC 1 server, a Vista Ultimate desktop both hard wired to my wireless router, and a Laptop, also running Vista Ultimate connected wirelessly. The 2008 box is an Active Directory domain controller and the other two boxen are domain members. I also have both an XBox 360 and a Wii connected wirelessly.
I haven’t had any issues with the networking part - it’s just worked, and worked well. My daughter sometimes brings her laptop over (running XP) and connects to my network easily.
I do recall hearing much the same stuff being said about XP for the first year it was out. But, in my opinion, The initial relase of Vista was a much better OS than the initial release of XP. It seems that MS can’t catch a break - everyone’s complained for years about their security issues, but when they start to fix it, everone complains that it doesn’t work exactly the way it used to.
Sure, it’s different from XP, and that takes a little getting used to. You can’t tell after a few hours or days if it’s an improvement - you need to give it a little time to get past the learning curve. I’ve been using Vista since the first beta, and while there are things about it I’m not thrilled with, it’s a perfectly fine OS and will only get better with time, just as XP did and OS X is.