I use vista on several home machines, and have not had any more issues than I did with XP when the machines were running that.
I would be buying vista with a free upgrade to Windows 7...stuff xp unless you run some old school software that is
I remember when XP came out people bagged it big time now they bag Vista and praise XP.....Hopefully windows 7 will put a stop that pattern .
Enjoy vista its fine.