Comment Re:IMHO solaris has a really bad userland (Score 1) 378
I've bashed Vista and agree with almost everything I've read about it for the single reason; I've experienced all that myself.
I wasn't an early adopter -- my first experience was with my laptop, which I bought before SP1. Horrible startup times, and even though I've taken out all the desktop effects and updated everything it still simply sucks.
Kubuntu on the otherhand simply worked immediatedly after I installed it, much snappier and no IO problems (Vista SP2 still hangs when copying files). With the 9.04 I finally got very fast desktop effects that still enable the desktop to be faster than Vistas (without any effects).
Now days even ACPI sleep/hibernate work well in both operating systems.
I only keep Vista around to enable myself HP's bios/firmware upgrades; there's not even a remote possibility of being able to work with Eclipse in Vista -- not that it's fun in Kubuntu, but the times I need it, it'll do.
To get back to replying to you; Vista hasn't done any progress compared to Kubuntu. Perhaps Windows 7 finally fixes everything (copying files etc.) but I still think I should be getting it for free as an SP it really is; don't really care for the UI or DirectX side. I'm glad I only paid "the microsoft tax" with my laptop, imagine what the people who actually bought a license must feel..