[Mars]

No, ppgrading to Vista isn't worth it, upgrade to any of several Linux distributions instead.

[diceman111]

No, ppgrading to Vista isn't worth it, upgrade to any of several Linux distributions instead.

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[IceFire]

No, ppgrading to Vista isn't worth it, upgrade to any of several Linux distributions instead.

Which is great unless you want to use Adobe software or play games (except with WINE installed and even then).  Linux is a great OS for tinkerers and server platforms and the like.  Its also pretty good for people who have limited applications and are basically interested in e-mail, using the web, and basic interaction with IM software and some music.  Thats actually a fair bit...but I have a Ubuntu and SUSE partitions on another hard drive that I barely use.  I do just to be knowledgeable but I end up back in Windows because thats where my software is.  GIMP is fine but its not Photoshop.  Not yet.  There are also still far too many hoops to jump through to make a Linux install fully featured with drivers and the like ready to go...I spent some serious time figuring it out and I consider myself an experienced computer user.

[Ace Pace]

No I don't think Vista is worth it.
I would stick with Windows XP.
I have Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. And its almost the same thing.

Right, I wasn't aware that XP MCE included the...more then a dozen structural improvements in the Vista kernel, added the new interface, new security setup(not UAC), provided support for DX10, etc. 

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying upgrade to Vista now(I'd wait for the summer) but comparing it to MCE is a bad joke waiting to happen.

[Flipside]

Vista is inevitable, but I'm not in a rush. I had a bad experience with the original XP (I bought it as soon as it came out) so I'm leaving it around 6-8 months to make sure there are no enormous security holes that have somehow been missed this time.

It's probably over-caution, for the main part, Vista doesn't seem to be causing most people too many problems, at least, not as bad as when XP came out, but I suppose it's a case of once bitten, twice shy.

[IceFire]

Its a good plan Flipside...I did the same thing.  I got WinXP Home about 10 months after release.  By that time drivers had settled down and most of the major problems had been worked out.  Lots of people talk about how solid WinXP is...and it is now...but at the beginning it was just as bad as things are now for Vista and everyone was talking about how they were staying with Win98 because that was a solid OS.  The pattern has been borne out so many times I'm not surprised by it anymore.  But most people have very selective memories