How many people on here are using Vista?

Paul Lamar

I don't know how many on here, but I (for one) am running Vista Home
on one of my boxes at home.  :)

Out of the box Vista has a bunch of "pretty" stuff turned on which can
make performance doggy.  If you dumb it down - turning off the
graphics crap, and certainly turning off the (usually factory
installed) McCaffee and Symantec/Norton bloatware makes a huge
difference.  If you pare it down, it seems like the performance is not
too bad compared to XP.  I have two boxes at home running XP plus the
Vista machine.  I have a Fedora box and an XP Pro box at work.  I
still like Linux (Fedora) at work where I need a development
environment and because we have a bunch of shell (text) based analysis
tools - Linux works well.  Linux is still a bit fiddly (at best
sometimes) for running the latest media and entertainment software.


Matt-