I installed Windows Vista Home Premium on my main PC notebook. I admit it. I did it. Yesterday. While I loved having Fedora 8 -- or in general any distro of Linux -- on the notebook, I wanted to do stuff that I couldn't do in Linux. One of the big drivers was the fact that Netflix's Instant Play just went unlimited. That means that I can stream as much as I want from Netflix and still have my three DVDs delivered. That makes for a wonderful deal at $14 a month. The only problem was that the Netflix player only works in Windows. Sigh. A side benefit is that I can now play some of my older games, like Command and Conquer. Other than the stuff that came with Windows Vista, I haven't really put any other tools on there that need to be purchased. Everything else is pretty much Open Source stuff -- Firefox, Thunderbird and OpenOffice.org. There's some freeware stuff that I installed also like iTunes and Yahoo! Messenger. Installation was a breeze (Microsoft did do a good job of cleaning up the install process). Most of my devices were detected and installed during installation -- whatever was left (like a MemoryStick reader) was later installed during a Windows Update. Vista is not as slow or bad as people say it is -- I am running it on a older Celeron M 420 notebook that I bought in April, the box has 2GB of RAM, a fast SATA drive, but suffers from slow built-in video. Is there "Wow" in Vista like Bill Gates wants people to believe? Not really. Vista is really a five year warmed over version of XP with some extra bells and whistles added on. It works, it's OK.