I also never had any problems with my two vista machines (I upgraded to W7 because I wanted to try it out), I don't think your experience is actually that far from the norm. Every home user type person that I've ever talked to that bashed vista big time was not running it. There were some issues that gamers hated though, that was a valid gripe thought you could fix all of them with some configuration setting. I think from the enterprise side though there were some real issues but I don't know about that.