I have a 64 bit processor and PCI-E 16 video card and I know in time I will need a 64-bit OS. I just want to see how vista shakes out first.  I want a 64-bit OS I spent the time building a machine for 64-bit apps. However, when it come to choosing an OS all I become is confused. Everybody says their rig and the OS they are using is the best so it makes my head swim. I'm not a software savvy person I understand hardware but I do know enough about software that I don't want to run a resource hog with unneeded tripe and unnecessary eye candy. Outside of a virus and firewall running in a separate process I don't see the need to have a bunch of processes running behind the scenes. Some say this is a trademark of M$, others say it's no big deal and that those who say this about M$ are over stating the facts.

All I want is a nice, clean and efficient OS without a bunch of BS to mesmerize me like a tribe of indigenous people seeing shiny trinkets for the first time. If an OS has to have these things to sell then one must question the developers. Why is it a hard thing to ask for? A clean, lean, efficient simply written OS? If M$ is in fact putting other things into Vista or any of their other OS what is the purpose? I recall the time I was told to get Norton, "Norton is the bomb Chief" it wasn't for me all I saw was in intrusive app that wound it's tentacles around everything in my box. I also don't have the cash laying around like some of these big shots to dump into a system to run all the bloated software recommended by said software giants. Kids in college will do that to you bank account LOL!

So in a nut shell, what is one suppose to do when choosing an OS? Whom do you listen to? That's why I wait and see. As far as Vista is concerned all I have heard is the negative about drivers not being able to handle most of the hardware out now or not being able to run certain apps. Vista is intrusive, Vista is full of M$ spyware, etc, etc. So for me I guess  waiting is key.

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