i’m an OS whore

Ok.  I admit it.  After bitching about Vista the other day, I have installed it tonight.

The main reason was that as people around me are getting it and asking me for help, I thought I had better get it too.

The version that I bought was the Vista Home Premium edition, but it came with that annoying UAC turned off by default, but also came without most of the desktop wallpapers, sounds and games.  Who ever made the ISO obviously stripped it down to fit on a single CD.  So I will be looking for another version somewhere else and maybe using that now that I know it works.
Seems ok at the moment.  Certainly fast enough on my p4 2.8 with gb of RAM and an on-board Intel graphics card.  It failed to get the drivers for the onboard network card which is a bog standard Intel one, the onboard soundcard and my Belkin PCI Wireless Card.  I used an XP driver for the wireless card and then updated the rest direct off the internet.

One good freakin excellent thing is that my Samsung TV now works in widescreen mode!  I spent a few hours the other night trying to force XP from 1024×768 to 1366×768 but it would not play.  But Vista seems to allow the screen to work at 1280×768!  Odd.

So, at the moment I am happier than I was the other day with Vista.  The interface still seems very odd and feels a little like the bastard son of OS X and Linux but I am getting used to it already.  Plus, as my MacBook is my primary machine, its not so much of an issue.