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Hating on Vista is like hating on domestic SUV's. It's the popular thing to do right now.
I'm running Vista both at home & here at work. So far I can't complain too much about Vista as it's working like it should.
Problems.
At home: I was having a problem with a custom codec pack I installed. It was randomly crashing WMP11. I downloaded the newest version of the pack and the problem went away. That was the ONLY problem I had. All of my games worked just fine, I went to lan parties and never had any issues connecting nor lagging out or my FPS being too slow.
At work: I had a lot more problems at work than I did at home. We run a lot of legacy software from the nineties and early 2K's, software that just wasn't meant for Vista. My biggest problem area was Novell login and other Novell apps. I couldn't log into the network properly, didn't have the proper rights to access certain types of files, etc. About two months ago Novell finally got off their lazy asses and released an updated Novell Login program and that fixed all of my Novell issues. SP1 came out shortly afterwards and made the network move much faster (it's actually faster than my XP box). Now my Vista box does 99.9% of what I want it to do, the only reason I still have to use XP is to remote into the Novell servers. If we upgraded to the latest version of that software then I wouldn't need XP at all, but money trumps all.
Vista isn't the second coming of Christ, but it certainly isn't as bad as most make it out to be. Like I said earlier, it's just the popular thing to do right now.
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