Vista RTM x64 new play thing

Recently, I’ve been playing a bit with my AMD64 box and since I have a Technet Plus subscription with Microsoft, I can get access to operating systems, applications, and other stuff early on.  That’s kinda cool because I am a OS junkie.  I like playing with various OS’es, seeing what they do, etc.  There are interesting challenges on AMD64 systems and this one is really a desktop type computer.  Its got 2g of really fast memory, a 256mb nvidia card, an AMD 4000+ processor.  I’ve had Ubuntu Edgy Eft AMD64, Debian Etch pure 64, and now Vista RTM on it.  Each has its interesting quirks and positives.  My overall thought is that Vista is a nice desktop OS but its demanding on the hardware.  With Linux you have to do this crazy mix of 32 and 64bit libraries and applications.  Some things will not work and others require some massaging and yet others you need what is called a “chroot environment” to get them operational.

I think for the meanwhile, I’ll just run Vista RTM and play around a bit with its interesting applications, etc.  I tend to appreciate Linux on laptops these days and Ubuntu is probably the best I’ve seen on a laptop.  The ACPI and driver tools are topnotch.