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My laptop is 100% Vista compatible, all the way down to the intel wireless. Thus, it runs Linux.
Vista has much stronger hardware requirements, but basically, it's XP with a prettier skin where everything runs directly through DirectX to give it the 'lickable interface.'
The last go-around, oeople were saying that XP was basically 2000 with themes, which for the most part was true.
Vista is a bit more, but it's a hog for what it does. If you don't need the pretty bells and whistles (Let's see, the new WinFS didn't make it.. the firewall is still a joke, and other than having the ability to buy up into turning your computer into a prettier DVD player), there's not that much of a need for it.
...and whoever said NT 3 was decent does not remember NT3. NT 3.51 was the first usable release of NT, and NT4 is still a staple found doing various OEM and proprietary tasks, all of these years later.
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