Omfg..... some dude asks about ogl vs dx, and WE END UP IN A VISTA VS XP VS LINUX WAR! Xd
I know ppl who used linux, then tried vista and decided it was better.
I know ppl who used xp, then tried vista and hated it so much they switched to linux.
I know ppl who used xp, tried vista but couldnt' get usedto it, then went back to xp, but finally decided to try vista again and they realizedi t's not rly so bad at all.
I have been using Vista x64 for over 2 years and what I have to say is:
- It does take more HDD space than XP, but with over 1.5Tb of HDD space in my pc, I don't care.
- It does use more RAM than XP, but given I have 6Gb in my pc, I don't care.
- Some apps and games do fail to work with Vista, but in MOST of the cases it's because those apps use the API calls in ways which weren't supposed to work, and which Vista fixed.
- Many devices from before vista was released don't have x64 drivers. I had to buy a new scanner, and new printer, and new webcam, but I can't really complain, given they all were over 10 years old. I think the money I spent on them was already worth it years before I got the new PC with Vista on it.
On a side note: there are some benchmarks of xp vs vista vs win7, and in cheap/old PCs, win7 wins over vista, and gets really close to XP, beating it sometimes. Microsoft just forgot some of their users would want to use Vista in low-end (or old) computers.