I’m really tired of all the Vista-bashing. Have any of you actually tried it for more than a week?
I’ve actually found Vista to be easier to navigate than XP (breadcrumbs in Explorer, Start Search, etc.), besides having more eye-candy. The driver problems are a thing of the past; by now there should be Vista Drivers for basically all your hardware.
If the User Account Control bugs you to much (& for the average user with Vista SP1, it isn’t as bad as it used to be) you can use TweakUAC .