XP or Vista?

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I've been familiar with Object Desktop for a while, and I read on their page that there is some work going on with Microsoft.

I just loaded Windows Vista Ultimate on my system. It's alright, but the end-user experience isn't all that different from what Object Desktop may have provided me. Perhaps there's more under-the-hood. It's definitely slower - which may be my video card (256mb Xstasy AGP) and my monitor is a SGI 1600SW flatpanel.

So I won't get into a rant about that here - but my question is, if I went back to XP Professional and loaded up Object Desktop, would I get most of the fancy features (such as panel transparency). Or should I try loading Object Desktop over Vista?

I'd be interested in others experiences and opinions here.

Thanks!
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'll be using ObjectDesktop on Vista. I'm not choosing Vista for its front end, but it's all the stuff under the hood which I really like. It's stuff you dont really notice immediately, but discover as you use Vista. I find it a bit awkward to go back to XP now.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
My system already blue-screened today.

I figure the look-and-feel can be achieved with Object Desktop on XP Pro, I don't much care for the rest. (FYI, I'm a sysadmin and I work in the UNIX world).

Simple programs like SecureCRT scroll very slowly now. My system is fairly resonable:

3.0ghz Intel (HT)
2gb RAM
200+gb disk space
Xstasy (ATI/Visiontek) 256mb AGP video

That should be more than enough.

But for what I'm doing, it's not really going to matter. IE: my firewall here is a UNIX host, and my Windows
WindowBlinds - Free yourself of the default settings, customize your desktop.
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I am back to XP and I feel good after a bad experience, maybe after one year I will try again the Windows Vista, to many problems for now