vista has been working superbly for me as well.
i think it's interesting that people are inclined to blame their operating system or brand of computer for problems when those who are more experienced seem to have little or no problems...
there's a reason for that discrepancy: user error
Sorry, but this is flat not true. You'd be hard pressed to find someone with more experience and skill in maintaining computers (after all, I program them, and not just "hello world" apps), and Vista is a royal pain in the ass.
Sure, I've become accustomed to it (in fact, I'm using it right now), but XP was better than Vista by a longshot. I mean, they even changed the network stack (which is now all screwed up and breaks constantly). I've had to reinstall the OS twice already since I bought the computer in early December due to problems, and I'm considering doing it again because it will just randomly quit allowing new socket connections until you reboot the machine, which is yet another problem that can't seem to be fixed.
I'm afraid to try SP1 because M$ is notorious for totally screwing up their first service packs so the system is even less stable than it was before.
I would have purchased this PC with XP Pro, but it wasn't available. I'd run Linux, but I have to deal with Windows stuff for work. Then again, I already have my hands tied by Vista, so I guess running XP Pro within a VM would be better than this.