Well ill try to leave personal preference out of this and answer the question.
Why so many people say Vista sucks.....
Personally i think a lot of the shall we say less technical people don't want to switch to Vista for main 2 reasons, number 1 would be because its not XP. Obvious answer i know but they have prolly been using XP for 5 years or whatever it is now, and have grown used to its quirks and change can be hard, M$ really left it too long getting Vista out the door!! . The second reason is because the hardware requirements are insainly huge, linux with beryl or compiz will run fine with a 1Ghz cpu 256MB ram and some sort of graphics card thats 3D enabled (i know the actual minimium requirements are significantly less). Now for Vista you need a new computer less than about 3 months old with a good GPU for aero just to get the thing to run, and not everyone wants to shell out $2000 because M$ just released a new OS.
Ok thats the non technical reasons out the way.
Vista is bloated!!! i mean bloated to hell a standard install comes to some obseen amount i think 17GB, wow!! and i only installed this yesterday, only apps i've installed are zonealarm, pidgin and firefox so 50MB maybe, no music yet btw. The reason Vista is bloated is interesting, When M$ develops a new OS, internal things in the kernel will be changing on a regular basis which would normally break things i.e. break compatability with drivers or whatever. In linux thats fine you can just change the drivers becasue they are open source too mostly, but in windows all the drivers are binary blobs that M$ can't really change so what they do is create a new version of say how the kernel handles USB devices but keeps the old version aswell for compatability, sounds reasnable doesn't it, well imagine what happens if you did this 15 times in development, you get a massive amount of code doing the same thing but in slightly different ways. This is a classic thing M$ does even with file formats........
Also M$ has sold out there own customers to the record lables and included a truely nasty DRM system that is never going to prevent a determind person from doing what ever the hell they damn well want but will cripple the user experience for any normal person who just wants to play the HDVD film that a friend lent them or whatever.
Microsoft has also "improved" security with this release by copy unix systems by requireing people to have admin rights to install anything, woohoo they are learning, this is a good thing. But wait i am logged in right now as admin, i didn't choose to be an admin, it just made me admin by default, so i don't need to type a password in to do anything all i do is click next on a pop up. M$ should take another leaf out of *nix and stop peple logging in as root or atleast warn them that this is a bad idea.
Hmm while we are at it there are too many versions of Vista and the differences between vresions are confusing.
Oh Vista is a crippled version of longhorn, its missing key features that were supposed to be included but got dropped, the new winfs for example.
Aero is pointless its resource intensive and no where near as good at compix-fusion or beryl, go on youtube and type in "compiz-fusion" and be amazed, then be doubly amazed that such a thing can run on 3-5 year old hardware.
Oh finally earlier i said Vista shipped to late, well it also shipped to early because drivers are a reall issue on Vista, i can't say much about this because i haven't personally experienced this.
A few reasons why i think Vista is not a good OS, that said i do like the new kicker artwork ;)
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