I'm a die-hard Linux user. I'm on it for at least 8 hours per day and more often than not 12 or 14.

However, I bought 3 legal copies of Windows Vista for my machines (including 1 new laptop, although I considered getting a Mac laptop I ended up going for a Vista laptop).

The benefits of Vista are actually twofold:

1) A better/enhanced UI (I couldn't live without the instant search on the start menu now). Whether you like the glass interface or not is a matter of personal choice though...

2) Better behind the scenes. More on this in a moment

Microsoft has done a lot behind the scenes to try and improve how the OS works fundamentally, including speeding the boot process and power management and monitoring for problems/stability issues and tracking them against changes made to your system.

So, given that I've spent over 200 notes on this OS and have two very high powered PCs to run it on, why isn't it my first choice? Simple, it's still closed source. I love my Linux - being able to delve in to the source code of any application and script the OS to do anything I want is beyond the prettiness of Vista. And if I want prettiness I can always install Beryl...

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