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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IronWolf" data-source="post: 3430661" data-attributes="member: 21076">I just installed Vista yesterday - mainly because I don't want to be that grumpy old sysadmin talking about how great the last OS is and never upgrading.  I installed on an AMD X2 3800 with 2GB of RAM.  The install went fine - it was a clean install (actually I had to blow away some Linux partitions - the desktop I installed on had been one of my Fedora boxes).My sound didn't work after the install - apparently Vista didn't have the right drivers for it (funny, all my hardware just works after a Linux install <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  )Once I installed the sound driver it worked fine (it's an onboard sound card).The interface seems nice.  Even though I prefer command line for many tasks - I am a sucker for desktop eye candy!  Though, Linux seems to have many more 3D effects these days on their desktop than Vista does at the moment.  It does seem MS at least has a framework to work from now for a 3D desktop.The UAC is slightly annoying - not quite as bad as everyone made it out to be.  I haven't turned it off yet, but probably will soon.Those are my early impressions.  It will see more use in the coming month or so and I will probably put a few games on there for time killers.Oh, start-up and shutdown times.  They seem pretty reasonable.  The thing with startup times is that MS just throws a login screen up way early in the process giving it the appearance that the OS booted really fast, but it is still loading a fair number of services in the background.  Similar to what they did with XP as well.</blockquote>

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