twitter's Journal: DesktopLinux: Vista and Mepis Compared, Mepis Wins.

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has a very cool comparison of Mepis and Vista on a year old HP Media PC. He explains dual booting and walks away with a shocker, Mepis has better hardware support and more "wow". The biggest Vista problems, drivers and DRM, conspired to keep him from playing his CDs and getting Aero. Mepis worked everything but a Winmodem and he was able to get fancy 3D graphics too.

... for now, if you're going to upgrade your operating system on an existing PC, Linux gives you the better shot of everything working correctly. ... if you're planning on viewing or listening to DRM-protected media of any sort, Linux is clearly going to give you better hardware support. By incorporating DRM into the operating system, Microsoft is going to make it very difficult for everyone from PC DVR (digital video recorder) users to just a guy who wants to play a DRM-crippled CD to be certain that everything will work properly.