So Vista sucks. Has since its release date, which is why Microsoft is planning on Windows 7.0 in 2010. Vista is rapidly becoming another Microsoft Windows ME.

So what choices do you have? Try Linux, for the past 3 years its been far ahead of Windows and Mac OS X in terms of graphical eye candy, and its customizable to the extreme.

Its worth a try, download a live cd and simply boot off it like you would a system restore disc. It'll let you try it without harming any files on your computer.

What does it look like? Pretty much like anything. It can look like Vista, XP, Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, and even stuff you wouldn't have guessed yet.

Here is a screenshot of my desktop, its an old Powermac, I put this all together as an experiment. Click the pic for the full size uncompressed verison 1680x1050.


And a video of the OS in action from youtube, its not my machine in that video but my machine does all of the same stuff.