The problem was the drivers not being mature when Vista came out. I saw a benchmark of games in XP with SP2 and SP3 vs Vista SP1 and they were neck, and neck now. Also let's not forget that Dell, Acer, HP, and all those vendors typically love to bloat their machines down with pre-installed Norton, and Mcafee along with a ton of other memory eating processes. That on top of Vista consuming more memory than XP will slow any system down. I have 4 GB in my machine, and on a fresh boot Vista eats around 800-900 MB of memory. I've seen some machines have over 100 processes right out of the box with Vista because of pre-loaded crap.
Vista itself on a fresh install is a very solid operating system. They tried with UAC what most of us System Admins have been which was not let users run in local administrator mode always so they can destroy their own computers because most people are fucking dolts, and cannot be trusted. Anyone that worked in a Computer shop any time in their it career knows how bad the Spyware, Adware, and Viri are in general now on peoples machines, and how raped XP was in the end by all this stuff. It's time to move on, and Vista is a starting point. If you don't like Vista, you probably won't like Windows 7 either. Adopt or get passed by while everyone else increases their knowledge while you stay in your safe world. and eventually replaced by someone who knows the new stuff.
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