ps regarding Linux:smile04:

have you tried it? Linux is famous for the fact that, with a bit of brains, hands, and desire (first and foremost), it can be transformed not only into a trolleybus, but into anything you want – if we're using that analogy – into a very convenient and very fast sports car, for example;

and also, regarding our friend Lord Vampire, who is complaining about Vista – it may be terrible (please forgive me), but with some tweaking and optimization, it will run faster on your hardware configuration than the old, good XP. although it, in turn, can also be configured for lightning-fast performance;

ps. the moral of the story: nothing will work exactly as you need it "out of the box" – everything absolutely needs to be carefully configured to suit your needs – the only difference is that some things are easily configurable, and some are not – take Windows, for example – it has a lot of hidden settings, in addition to the standard ones.