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When Vista was just coming out, I bagged on it.  Badly.  I kept Vista off our computers for a very long time.  I let Shanin give it a shot on her HP laptop (it came installed with Vista Home Premium), but we both remained unconvinced that this OS was ready for the primetime, and I “upgraded” to XP SP2. I know that there are plenty of arguments for Vista (the programs weren’t out for it yet, the drivers weren’t out for it yet, etc.), but I kept hating Vista.

But when faced with getting a new laptop, I didn’t really want to deal with uninstalling Vista, finding XP drivers, and installing XP.  Plus, I knew that Vista was now into Service Pack 1, so I figured I’d give it a sporting chance.  It took a bit of preparation, as the laptop I was receiving was Home Premium (same as Shanin’s), so I wouldn’t be able to use domain names.  This was unfortunate as I had a Windows domain (based on a Linux box running Samba) and everything was set up well and was working mostly fine.  But after lots of reconfiguring, transferring files, setting up options, etc., I have to say that I’m mostly glad I made the transition to Vista. keep reading “Ten things I hate to love about Windows Vista”