[Maverick]

@Max: sorry buddy but we're going to strongly disagree on this

I did try Vista like Max said and see how it is by myself, but there's no demo (or I can't find it) and I won't bother looking for a crack, besides Microsoft says my PC isn't "Windows Vista Premium Ready" so there's no point in trying it. And I don't like Vista AT ALL, not because it may be buggy but for what it is, did you saw the new Aero interface for Vista? now look at Beryl 3D desktop for GNU/Linux here or here, it looks far better than Aero or Aero Glass, it's fully customizable, and you don't need a behemoth computer for run it, of course a GNU/Linux OS isn't something that will run "out of the box" but good part of the fault is for hardware manufacturers that doesn't fully support open source software.

But the thing that truly bothers me is their DRM policy, all data seems to go through encryption algorithms, crippling your PC's performance, not for protect your credit card numbers, your files or your privacy, but for protect media data and all that stuff that the RIAA and MPAA cares for, link
And why? did anyone of you people asked for a operating system that checks if your media content is legal or not? this isn't about fighting piracy, this is about how legitimate consumers gets a lot of crapload thanks to corporations trying to maximize their profit margin, what guarantees that all this isn't going to get cracked anyway? Every time that something gets encrypted or secured it gets cracked shortly. Do you guys remember Sony's rootkit? did it prevented illegal copies? no, but it screwed the computer of the honest buyer.

Did anyone once received a file through MSN from a friend, and got it deleted by Windows because it's "dangerous"?, without any confirmation dialog? my winXP thinks wav files are dangerous and deletes them without my input
Here Max sent me a file, vfunnyjess.wav and windows xp decided by itself and BY ITSELF to delete it, and I couldn't recover it, that's an example of what I'm talking about, Windows controls your computer, not you.

Normally I wouldn't give much importance to this, I switched to GNU/Linux some months ago, I've been online without any firewall, antivirus or ... how is it called?... ah, anti-spyware software, and I'm still running without any system crash or ads popping around, I'm using my desktop with true transparencies and it runs smoother than my windows xp, and I can run Half-Life thanks to Wine so all my essential needs are covered. Of course it has its downsides, getting my modem and video card to work wasn't easy, some apps have bugs, mp3 and divx doesn't work without some tweaking and still I can't get my sound card to work with multiple apps, but I'm totally bought by GNU/Linux, and I'm trying to push the "GNU/Linux and not Windows" matter to my bosses in my University, which uses cracked software for everything (Looks like my uni has license for crack software O.o)
anyway I was saying that I wouldn't give much importance to Vista but thanks to it open-source hardware support will be damn difficult and it piss me off