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Originally Posted by Tyrien

The only problems I have with vista is the permission request when you want to do anything that can alter the registry, or system properties. Other than that it's great. Despite the bad press Vista is definitely the way to go unlesss you're a heavy PC gamer.

It's not just about the games, Tyren... a lot of heavily-hardware dependent software works slower on Vista (Let's take video editing, or Virtualization for instance)... it just has too much unneeded stuff in it... That's why i choose Windows server 2008 over Vista... it is definitely not as user friendly, but it sure beats the crap out of Vista performance and customizability-vise. But yeah, Vistas 10-25% percent of loss in gaming performance in comparison to XP is also quite unpleasant.