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Originally Posted by Zaps
So why not just stick with XP? On identical spec hardware, XP craps all over Vista, and if you upgrade the hardware so that Vista (or Windows 7) can run "as designed", you may as well just chuck XP on instead and watch that REALLY fly, plus avoiding all the hell associated with new drivers. And your existing applications will be happier too.
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mmm well, since I'm running a triple boot system here (xp 32 bit [rarely used], Debian AMD64 "etch" [been too lazy to upgrade it, rarely used], Vista x64), I think I'm quite able to make valid comments on "usability". Vista is no worse (nor much better I admit) performance wise than XP or Debian.
I don't really use the eye candy, aero's on by default, but I don't notice it being really obtrusive to be honest. What other eye candy are you talking about? The only thing I've seen doing useless eye candy is compiz. Just because you can, doesn't mean you *should*. Someone should teach that to some of the Linux developers out there, gees.
Anyways, this was about Windows 7, I get that you don't like Windows or Microsoft, that's cool. Been there, done that. It seems to be fashionable to bash Microsoft just for the fun of it these days.
Dave