Why I hate Vista.

Just as with XP, Vista MAY be worth something after a service pack or two. Right now, it's Betaware. Micro$haft is just charging for it. You never buy an Operating System out of the gate. Period. Look at Windows Me.

For the record, I don't hate Vista because "it's cool to hate Vista". Any accusations of such will be summarily ignored.

I hate it because it's a 14+GB install of a shiny, crappy version of XP.

I hate Vista because of its ridiculous requirements. Code-bloat has been part of Windows since at least 98, but a min req. of 1024Mb (1.0Gb) RAM? XP had a min req. of 256MB, and Vista doesn't have anything to show for it.

I hate Vista because for the price you pay for the "cheap" versions, you might as well upgrade your current PC with more RAM, a new graphics card, and a few other add-ons; for the more expensive variants, you may as well buy a new PC with XP on it. Oh yea, and every version of Vista is a truncated version. For the "full" version, you have to shell out even more hard earned money.

I hate Vista because it has quite possibly the most convoluted filing system I've seen to date.

At least NTFS was kind enough to separate different users into sub-folders. As far as Vista goes, it took that to an illogical conclusion. Here's a comparison:

Windows 95/98 (FAT32): C:\Progra~1\($program)

Windows XP (NTFS): C:\Documents and Settings\($user)\Program Files\

Windows Vista: C:\($user)\(supercalifragilisticexpialidouchebag)\Program Files (x86)\

I hate distibutors, because they NEVER release a PC to Joe PEBKAC with even enough RAM to meet Minimum Requirements. Nearly every lusers' PC I deal with has roughly half the memory for the OS installed, and to exacerbate things, they use an ONBOARD graphics chip?! If I see another fucking DirectX Diagnostic scan that reads out like this, I'm going to scream:

Operating System: Microsoft Windows Vista űberpsychoexpensive Edition
Processor: Intel Celeron Crap Processing Unit, 2.8Ghz.
Memory: 512Mb RAM
Graphics Chip: Intel G945 Chipset, 256Mb RAM

Tell me what's wrong with this picture.
Come on, it's not difficult.

Okay, I'll tell you: This PC is trying to run Vista on 256Mb RAM. ONE FUCKING QUARTER what the OS requires to work properly. I'm damned suprised that Windows manages to post half the damned time.

And of course, these bargain boxes have somewhere around 50 startup items.

Add in DRM as well as the fact that Vista requires seven layers of permission for you to fucking sneeze, and Vista is just another example of the corporation assfucking the consumer.

(All of that, and I have to deal with PEBKACs on a daily basis who went out and bought a shiny new Vista PC and expect EVERYTHING to run on it.)

So I apologize that I won't buy the hype. I'm sorry that your shiny new OS is a piece of shit. I'm sorry that I don't want my current PC or my next one to get bogged down by its own Operating System. I'm sticking with XP for as long as I can, or until I can find a versatile OS that isn't so bloated that I have to buy a fucking supercomputer to run it on.

Rant off.