I like the idea of Linux... honestly, I do. And I think Open Source is the greatest thing that has ever happened to software... ever.

But as much as it pains me to admit, I just do not have the patience to fight with my OS over the basics like OS updates that break half the stuff on my machine, or sound never quite having worked right. And though some may say the following is a benefit, if I have to reboot to be able to play a game, then I just don't end up playing at all.

The tipping point for me realising it was okay to be okay with Windows came in the form of the Linux Hater's Blog, but to be entirely honest, Vista has always been fine for me.

Being a sample size of 1 means that my results may not be representative, but I built my machine myself, didn't go out of my way to get "Vista approved" parts, and everything just works. I don't know whether having Ultimate x64 has anything to do with it, or that I've pretty much always run SP1, but I've just never had a problem.

Vista has not run in any way noticeably slower than XP used to. Add on top of that the consistent 2-second resume from sleep and fantastic overhauled sound sub-system (per app volume control, who would've thunk it?) I have no intention of going back to anything else.

I don't blame anyone for picking something else if they prefer it, but my choice "just works"-tm for me.