Jbennet needs to make up his mind about what he thinks about Vista and stop having different 3p opinions every three days.

Vista is far from crap. It might not be the speed demon you seem to want, and it does have problems (depending on who you are), but it is still good imo. Vista should be to the Windows line similar to what 2000 was in it's era.

As for Linux...well I went through three different distros at work today trying to get some "linux" software to work on it, one of which even the installation failed. I must be pretty stupid.

jbennet | Microsoft Fanboy

I believe you have not quite got it right:-

windows 98 = good.
Windows ME = crap
windows xp good
vista = crap
windows 7 = good ?

Should be:-
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Win 1.0 good start
Win 2.0 poor
Win3.0 better
Win3.1 good
Win95a poor
Win95b better
NT3 poor
NT4 good
windows 98 = better
windows 98SE = best (Still Good against later Windows issues, probably the best of all ).
If only we could get a 2008 SP for it.
Windows ME = poor (crap - something you do in a lavatory)
NT5 Win2000 Poor
NT5 Win2000Pro+SP4 Good
NT6 windows xp basic Very Poor (Given 'XP' was supposed to stand for 'Experience')
NT6 windows xp Higher editions +Sp3 Good
NT6 WinServer 2003 Good
NT7 vista = Poor (crap - something you do in a lavatory)
NT8 windows 7 = good ?