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XP on desktop and @ work
OEM Vista sold with laptop but using a GNU\Linux.

XP Pro SP2 32 bits at home and at work

XP and OSX at home,
Win2003 server, Vista, and XP and work. (dev, test, and mail boxes), and I assure you my vista problems are worse than yours.

Ubuntu

Windows XPensive + Ubuntu :P (oh and winblows 98 for oldskool gaming!)

XP + AmigaOS 3.1 at home, Ubuntu (and occationally XP) at work. The plan is to run Vista on my next laptop, probably to be bought some time later this year...

That reminds me... I seem to recall having heard about compatibility problems with Vista 64bit. How is the situation with demos in that respect, compared to Vista 32bit?

Blueberry: you don't use vista

Oh, and I dare say 95% of the demos seem to run just fine or smoother in Vista for me at least ... removed all the nagging ofcourse, and some filesystem tweaks

vista with virtual xp on home laptop
opensuse on usb drive (x configured for home laptop)
xp on home desktop
opensuse with virtual xp at work desktop
xp on work laptop ;)

cthread. cthread_fork(). Fork, thread, fork!

XP on Desktop, Vista on Laptop.

XP at home, XP at work. The latter is rather funny, because I'm working at a Microsoft partner company. If even Bill's buttbuddies won't take Vista, who will? :)

what does annoy me about vista.. is that it constantly needs to read/write to the primary HDD, wtf is up with that? i mean, as i use a lappy nowadays for everything, it gets hot hot hot because of that.

Commodore BASIC 2.0. Does it counts?

Wait, I just read the thread's title.
Here you go: I use TinyXP on my Laptop and an XP Pro on my desktop. Tried Vista about a month ago but it drove me nuts so it got deinstalled :|

yeah, fork() ftw :D

I use XP at home but have to use Vista at school. It's ok on the brand new setups there but on the old ones (that ran XP with no noticeable problems) even basic use is so slow that it's frustrating.

So make sure your hardware is up for it before you upgrade to Vista.

I've dumped windows in favour of Fedora / Ubuntu GNU/Linux. Best choice I ever made!

FreeMiNT (Atariiii)
Mac OS X (Stationary, laptop, htpc and work laptop)
Kubuntu (Work)

XP

- Windows XP SP2 on my "music workstation" with Vista in a Virtual PC session.
- Windows XP SP2 on my professional laptop and Ubuntu.

I have been recently "professionnally" trained to Vista as I have been for Windows 2k/2k3 (MCSE training)/Windows XP and I must now admit it ain't the weak and lame OS everybody tends to think it is. Actually, that's quite the opposite and it's even better with the SP1. Well, despite the criticism amongst the trainees, the teacher was quite honest and proved us we were often wrong while also admitting the weaknesses.

Though it requires a recent and recent machine unlike XP which was an evolution of Windows 2k and where putting some RAM was enough to have it run more than decently without any hardware upgrade.

oxb: beyond the new driver architecture (which makes your old hadware unusable), the highend requirements (which makes you buy new hardware) and the failed promises (WinFS where art thou?), vista problems are less technical than commercial : people don't like to be taken for silent sheep, they don't like to be forced to upgrade to vista in order to play some DX10 games or whenever they buy a new laptop. Market need to give time to time, the more aggressive it becomes the more he'll fail and the more people will rebel even more irrationally...

Gentoo with Vista64 dual boot on desktop, Archlinux with XP dual boot on laptop. Installing Vista64 was a mistake, my desktop use is now predominantly Linux/Gnu. By the way, virtually all Windows demos will work under wine nowadays - most games too. I still boot TinyXP (inside a virtualiser) for running Microsoft Office, VirtualBox allows desktop integration of Windows apps and even enables copy/paste to work between Windows/Linux.

gentoo vs xp