Vista!
I was hated it before, cause...well, thats not important.
Vista is really good, all the games I've run on Vista run great.

List please? :p

The "issues" people have with Vista are, from my own personal experience, largely fictional. Do yourself a favor and just get Vista. There are a few compatibility issues but even those are minor. Only one I've had so far as been with the Nintendo WiFi connector though that is Nintendo's Fault, not Vista's.

So yeah, go Vista. I haven't had ANY real problems with Vista, at all.

Just go with Vista. It'll be better in the long run since eventually a lot of companies and what not are going to make software for Vista. Their future updates will help fix most of the oddities.

And if you ever plan to expand it for gaming, you have DX 10, so that's also good.

Vistargh

yeah, most of the games you see now, branded "Games for Windows" are built for Vista, though its still reletivly new and major patches still need to be released.

XP is good, but will go out of date eventually,

I would go with Vista

Vista... People complain about incompatibility and more taxing system requirements. They scream about bugs and errors all the time. The truth is half the people who say these things don't have Vista, they're just repeating what other people said to sound cool, or are just targeting MS with a personal vendetta. Taxing system requirements and incompatibility aren't bugs, they're what happens when: A- you run programs not originally written for Vista code, a lot will work, but some won't. Tough luck, not everything is going to be compatible, just like what happened with XP was released. or B- Your computer doesn't run it well due to no-so-good hardware. That's not MS's problem! That's yours! Buy another gig of RAM and stop running an 800mhz proc! Most home PC's going for 300 dollars or so run Vista fine! Plus it usually come preloaded!

I personally have not had any problems with Vista. I've experienced no bugs or errors, only incompatibility with some older, XP or earlier programs. This is not MS's fault. If you want compatibility, take it up with the software company that made it, and stop yelling at MS!

People can harp all they want about Vista but it's getting a bit old and people are starting to see through the lies of MS haters, rumor spreaders and the people who have no idea what they are talking about and have never written a bit of code in their life.

Vista will eventually become standard, whether we like it or not, so hold on to XP as long as you can if you're that stubborn, or get Vista and get with the program(bad pun , lol =p). In years to come, little programs will be written for XP, and MS's online support and updates will cease for it, being focuses on their new standard. DX10, a nicer interface, and some cool (and some completely useless and resource demanding, media center anyone?) features that come with it. You want to run some XP programs? Set up another partition and do dual boot, or by some cheap computer and slap your XP on that. Eventually, Vista will become standard. It's what happened with XP, and the same things were said about XP when it was released.

Bottom line, get over it!

The only complaint I have about Vista is driver support, and that's not MS's problem. It's the hardware companies problem! (Finding a good driver for my 8600m GT was like hell on wheels :lol: But the 169.09 beta drivers are like heaven!)

So yea, Vista...

I have run vista on several pcs here at home. I have said this a couple times, hardware.... If vista doesn't like the hardware, then you need to go with a driver it does like. Lol.... And you are right Geek, this is exactly what happened with 95, 98, nt, millennium and when xp was released, about it too... Time to get on then.... The only people on 98 now are those who, well... I don't see many anymore.

Use xp till it is dead, then you will get vista and be 5 years behind. Then when you are three years into vista, you will be 5 years behind the next os. Although that will only happen if Bill gates gets a copy of the new mac os that comes out at that point.... LOL
He can copy os's like no ones business. JK.

People are so funny...

Vista works great, simply put. There are a few annoyances that are simply just change. Its different from XP and thats why people don't like it, they don't get it. And drivers? Please, unless you have complete crap it will run on Vista! nVIDIA, realtek, ATi/AMD, and Intel hardware is fully supported under Vista through drivers. One thing I see people do when they install something is pop in drivers disks, STOP! WHY! GOD WHY! Those drivers are ALWAYS DATED! Go on to the websites and get the latest that support it! I always update my drivers as often as I can!

To be fair, you can't lay the blame for software incompatibility squarely on the shoulders of independent publishers. Operating Systems should, in theory, be backwards compatible, which is something Microsoft has never been good at. They're far too focused on new products (and the profit they bring) to worry about customers who still use older applications, which is never a good thing for the end-user.

For example, there is a vast library of 1980's era UNIX code that will still run on modern *nix-derived machines with very little effort. That's, what, 30 year's worth of applications? And yet Microsoft somehow manages to make programs that are barely 5 years old a complete headache to install or operate on their latest, shiny, 'superior' operating system.

That being said, all this stupid bickering over operating systems is getting very old, very quickly. Personally I could not care less what software you use - if you have XP or Vista, great. If you have a Mac, great. If you use Linux, or OpenBSD, or even SCO, great. As long as it works for you, it really doesn't matter in the end.