Just been to a mates who got a new laptop which has vista on it.  God it took ages to load, and even then the crap it loads afterwards is a joke, and this is all needed crap.. 
Took 14gig of space (mines 6gig with a LOT of stuff) and way too much memory usage for my liking.  Thankfully I was there to put it out of its misery and installed something that uses fuckall space, fuckall resources and fuckall dollars.  Compiz also makes "aero" look like DOS

Cant believe people actually pay to use that load of toss

that analogy doesnt work for my rig   i like not having to run all that bloatware.  as for defrags, EXTFS is a little smarter than NTFS. (http://linkpot.net/behead/) My hd is 0.2% fragmented, it was 6 months ago.. Yes I do a lot of stuff as well... I`m not knockin windows at all, used it for many yrs, did an mcse, but I just use what I like the most.  Not had much to do with macs tbh tho.

talking of whiny little bitch,  an X-Factor contender just took on SCOM... hah

takes me back to a bbs I had with a 2400baud amstrad modem.  I was so pimp back then..