King Harold wrote:Yet for all these nice little things (IMO nothing you mentioned is really major) there appear to be only a few people who actually like it.
All those little things add up, this is why I find XP frustrating to use.
Most people I talk to on IRC and fora outside of this community that use it seem to like Vista.
what apps does XP break though? is it just coincidence that I've never had an app that worked on, say, WinME but not on XP?
Stop running as an administrator (running as admin is a really bad idea anyway; ask any *nix user whether they run as root or not) and wait for things to stop working. This includes any app that saves its settings in system directories or protected registry keys.
How come games like Knights and Merchants work fine on XP but not at all on Vista?
I don't know. I don't really play many games, but the ones I do (the most recent ones being Quake 4 and DOOM3) run flawlessly. This could be helped by the fact that I use ATi cards, and ATi have been very good at pushing out decent Vista drivers.
Except that XP would work faster still on a PC that costs £500 now (if we are to believe benchmarks)
Yes, but so would DOS. My point is that it's worth it for those upgrades, which brings me on to:
No don't give up yet, you may convince me, if there is something really great on Vista
I don't think I will, as you seem to be convinced that the new features aren't for you. That's fine, if you're happy with XP then so be it. I use Vista's new features on a daily basis and as such would not refer to them as "bloat". I'll therefore link you to
this and
this, though you seem to have made up your mind already.