Wow, everyone seems to be loving this thing! LOL I've never used anything but Windows, except when I used Macs in elementary school eons ago and somehow managed to freeze three of them in a row...hmm...thought Macs were supposed to be impervious...
I haven't tried any other operating mainly because, while I'm computer-savvy enough to do a lot of things with Windows, I don't have a DSL for downloads, I don't know how to partition hard drives or use commands, and my current hard drive is only 80 gig.
I'm not overly fond of Vista but it hasn't made me want to shoot my monitor nearly as much as my old computer, with XP, did. But it was a true "lemon", blew a HD and Motherboard in the first six months, a modem in 11 1/2 and it's HD was on the way out AGAIN (kept bluescreening) when I got this Dell.