[mac173]

Originally Posted by allinone

you should go for vista coz there will be no problems for drivers and softwares.........also its less prone to viruses

That statement is wrong on so many levels.......

Vista does not support a host of legacy programs and hardware. My HP printer cannot sync with Vista. I do not appreciate having to buy new equipment I do not need to accomidate an OS. Also, many of my older programs will not run on Vista, the support is terrible.

As for Viruses, I use [a href "http://www.avast.com"]Avast![/a], which is a free virus program. I have used it for 2 years, and not gotten a single virus. Use a NAT router, Avast, and leave the e-mails on the server, and viruses are not a problem.

[jdw999]

Ubuntu, still on Feisty Fawn (7.10).

I have XP partitions on desktop and laptop. There is no way I am using Vista if I can keep from it.

[freemble1]

Originally Posted by mac173

That statement is wrong on so many levels.......

Vista does not support a host of legacy programs and hardware. My HP printer cannot sync with Vista. I do not appreciate having to buy new equipment I do not need to accomidate an OS. Also, many of my older programs will not run on Vista, the support is terrible.

As for Viruses, I use [a href "http://www.avast.com"]Avast![/a], which is a free virus program. I have used it for 2 years, and not gotten a single virus. Use a NAT router, Avast, and leave the e-mails on the server, and viruses are not a problem.

Your HP printer must be ancient.

[jaco_don]

I recommend Open Solaris .. havn't used it yet but ... its a real time system .. also you can go for Ubuntu ... its probably the best one compared to Windows .. else go with Windows XP for a while and wait ... untill Windows 7 is launched .. great Expectation from it

[kkenny]

Vista is a no no.

Heh, I suggest a Linux with WINE or XP. Which distro though, is up to you.

[Nathan H]

What has completely removed all my Vista compatibilty issues is turning UAC off. Yeah its a security feature but without it even some old win95 games are working.

[vigge_sWe]

Originally Posted by Nathan H

What has completely removed all my Vista compatibilty issues is turning UAC off. Yeah its a security feature but without it even some old win95 games are working.

you may want to check this out: http://www.replaceuac.com/ :P

[chappill]

DO NOT GET VISTA infact stay away from Microsoft unless your getting a jocked up version of XP like black 5.0 because anything else is too RAM and CPU heavy, un-secure and has over 600,000 viruses. If I was you I'd do the sensible thing and get Linux, Red hat, Ubuntu or PClinuxOS are a good place to start as there all user friendly and are main stream so have alot odf programs that run on them (Linux wise) And you can also get vurtual box and run that in Linux if you need Windows programs.

[bnex10]

Yep!

[Nathan H]

Originally Posted by chappill

DO NOT GET VISTA infact stay away from Microsoft unless your getting a jocked up version of XP like black 5.0 because anything else is too RAM and CPU heavy, un-secure and has over 600,000 viruses. If I was you I'd do the sensible thing and get Linux, Red hat, Ubuntu or PClinuxOS are a good place to start as there all user friendly and are main stream so have alot odf programs that run on them (Linux wise) And you can also get vurtual box and run that in Linux if you need Windows programs.

This is a personal opinion, and besides, its not resource intensive at all compared to some of the recent versions of linux i have seen. I run vista and it hardly touches the resources on my £400 computer, and the only reason there are virus' on windows is because it's popular. as soon as linux becomes a major portion of the market, there will be virus' for it too. All you need to do is get a free program like AVG as well, combined with Spybot S+D and you got a nice stable secure PC