Vista or XP
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- detritus0
The little of Vista I've used annoyed the fuck out of me - though this was partly because I tried it on an underpowered machine and mostly because I couldn't see it as being that big an advance over XP. Some of the UI elements really did annoy the heck out of me - if you're a long-term PC user, the assumptions it makes on your behalf will probably annoy you. I like a machine that is coldly logical - I don't want it second guessing me or doing things on my behalf. Also, the constant security alerts annoyed me - when I 'fixed' them (using some fricking hack) I didn't feel assured that there was ANY security running. Also, there are massive legacy hardware conflicts - and I'm only talking hardware (in my case, a LinkSys router and an HP printer) that were about 3 years old.
However, if you're going for a high power workstation and if you plan on playing ANY new games (or doing anything that might require DirectX10), I guess I'd 'recommend' going for Vista - it is, after all, the supported modern Microsoft OS.
If you don't need DX10 - well, maybe it's worth going with XP for the meanwhile, and upgrading to Windows 7 in 2010 - it's only two years, which on a working machine might not make any difference to your workflow.