[MysticLlama]

I think it'll get better with time.

We're running it on some machines at the office and for the most part, there aren't any big issues once you get a good set of drivers.

XP was also awful at first driver wise, the bonus with it was that hacked NT4 drivers usually worked fine once you forced them to install.

The driver model for video is much much different than it was on XP, and if you are a gamer you know how long it takes after every vid card comes out to get stable drivers even on XP. (Typically a few months) Vista just adds complication to that in that it's new and the developers aren't all that used to it yet.

On the other hand, there are a few really odd things that are broken that I can't figure out how they ever got released at all and/or not yet fixed. My biggest pet peeve is that on our network (all Windows Server 2003 based), DHCP works great with a fresh install of Vista, but after running all the current updates, quits working. Really weird.