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I tried; I really did. For several months, I used Windows Vista as my main operating system—in my case, the 64-bit version of Windows Vista Home Premium. For a time, I rather liked it—I was wooed by such things as its refreshed appearance and its desktop search system—but significant problems soon became apparent to me and the longer I used Windows Vista, the more deeply flawed it appeared to me.
I have had enough of not being able to use perfectly good peripherals because Microsoft apparently decided to make Windows Vista incompatible with extant Windows XP drivers and further fracture driver compatibility by requiring separate drivers for 64-bit and 32-bit systems. I have had enough crashes and error messages from 32-bit applications running unstably or otherwise problematically and I have had enough of avoiding some applications altogether because they don't run properly or they don't run at all under Windows Vista in general or specifically the 64-bit versions. I have had enough of the misleading fast boot time that still results in only a minimally responsive system for quite a while after the appearance of my desktop. I have had enough of those dialog windows that ask me to confirm whether I just clicked on a button or a link as though a malicious button-clicking or key-simulating program could not handle the confirmation window too.
Most of all, I have just had to put up with too much hassle with Windows Vista—too much of it preventing me from doing the things I want and need to do instead of empowering me and assisting me. I am not crazy about Windows XP, but the fact is that I can do more with it than I can with Windows Vista; I can get more work done with less hassle and less wasted time.
Good riddance, Windows Vista.
