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Nothing wrong with Vista. Even pre SP1, the issues were minor but blown out of control by the media. Microsoft is no longer the darling of the computer media (OS X and Apple are), so they have to bash something, to sensationalise and make money by sales of media content. Most of the so called "experts" who bashed Vista know s.f.a imho.
I've used Vista now since May 2008 and it's been great. I had one lockup - last night believe it or not. I suspect my dvd burner is mucking up, and locked up the system, causing Windows to crash. I've seen OS X do this, and Linux too. In fact, on Saturday, I updated my Debian box from "etch" to "lenny". Well, what a screw up. Part of the way through the upgrade process it all stopped. And - network killed. I had a quick loko at the various network files, all looked good. I noticed udev was complaining on startup and dev population was taking 5 minutes but since I'm not really that keen on udev, nor familiar with it's inner workings I called a mate. Between the 2 of us brain storming, we fixed it - turns out one package wasn't configured properly by the system, and udev relied on this, and wouldn't configure until the other one was. Manually configured the first one, then udev which fixed most things. Oddly, the network card module (sky2) which was auto loading before no longer was loaded, and had been removed from /etc/modules, which is *really* unusual. That shouldn't have happened. Inserting the module into the running kernel, and adding it to /etc/modules fixed that, as well as a few minor modifications to /etc/networking. Just goes to show that not even Linux is fool proof, and it screws up too. In this case, far worse than I've EVER seen from a Windows operating system. This was a routine simple update for Debian I might add (admittedly from 'etch' to 'lenny', a major stepping stone, nothing that apt shouldn't have been able to handle.
Sorry for the geek comments lol..
Dave
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