Windows Vista Options

[impala454]

Sucks (for now).

I have come to this conclusion after using it every day for 4-5 months.

Reasons:
1. Sick of having folder view settings seemingly random as hell. I prefer to have all folders show the "list" view setting, and I set it that way but it never sticks for good. Pisses me of.
2. CD/DVD burning support is crap. Nero doesn't work, can't seem to even burn a CD w/drag and drop (although admittedly I did disable a lot of background services and maybe this messed it up). I have used the 32 bit version of vista and not had any CD/DVD burning probs.
3. 2572035902138059213753 background services running by default, about five of which are necessary.
4. The crap that said services attempt to do when my computer is idle. I have a WD Raptor 150 hard drive (10k rpm), and when I get in bed and twenty minutes later the thing spins up and starts goin bananas it pisses me off. I have yet to find out exactly which service does this (although disabling the windows search service stops it most of the time).
5. the fact that in list view, the clickability (if that's a word) of a file extends as a kind of a box, making it damn near impossible to click an empty area in the window (to de-select, right click for various reasons, etc). i like it better the old way how you click on the actual text of the filename.
6. no more 'up' button on the folder gui
7. the breadcrumb folder path listbox. i'd rather see the actual folder path

What I do like:
1. Vista Media Center. Friggin slick as hell. I have tried Windows MCE, MCE 2005, MythTV, and BeyondTV. This media center rules them all, and I may just use parts laying around to build another comp solely to run media center next to the TV with.
2. The window preview pic shown in the task bar when you hover over a taskbar item. that has come in very handy.
3. The file transfer window is much nicer than in xp. better information.
4. The changes in the looks of the gui. window gfx, icons, taskbar, window animations, all look very nice.

So, I gotta say overall, there's plenty I like, but there's enough I don't like to make me go back to XP. At least until/if the above issues are addressed. XP wasn't really great until SP1 anyhow. We'll see if they can get it goin. I can't see going linux as an option, as there's no visual studio .net '05, sql '05, etc support, and I really like IE7, office 07, photoshop, etc. so back to the ol xp sp2.

Commence the ridicule/laughing/gasping/etc.