Which is the best Operating System Windows Vista ot Windows XP?

Ubuntu was the first Linux distro I tried, and it's got bugs of its own. It also doesn't have the degree of deployability; check the forums, and see what kinds of problems other users are having. Personally, I use a lot of USB devices: a keyboard, a mouse, a printer/scanner/copier, and a few storage devices. One of these storage devices, a 2 GB Kingston flashdrive, stores over 80 portable applications, including my e-mail client. Under every Linux distro I've tried (most recently Ubuntu, Mandriva, and Mint), the pointer would stop responding to the mouse, and portable apps would crash. The device running them would be inaccessible until after a reboot; terminating the stuck programs wouldn't change that. In Ubuntu, I've had files disappear from my USB HDD and flashdrive that way. After the first USB crash, it got more and more frequent until the OS became useless, and buttons and icons disappeared from the taskbar. This problem appears to exist in the Linux core itself, and has yet to be addressed. Interestingly, the Mac (BSD core) also has USB problems, though apparently more in the way of kernel panics when a device is first plugged in. Windows is the only platform that can handle real strain here. Linux is not a replacement for Windows yet; it has a long way to go. That's why most Linux users still dual-boot, although many of them keep mum about it because it defeats their propaganda. Windows just works, especially if you know how to take care of it. While Vista still has a lot of problems--bluescreens with illegible text and Disk Defragmenter getting crippled are just a couple--XP problems usually involve third-party software, and are easily fixed. Linux problems require more than diagnostics; they require debugging. Until Vista matures, it's XP all the way.

some interesting points. I havent had those problems while running ubuntu....i do have to conceed this though, i don't think linux, any distro, is quiet all ready to overtake windows...but i think that ubuntu is getting close. i'm glad that we can all be respectful here in the thread :) and i even learned, i didn't know mac ran on a bsd core....i thought about giving bsd a try once, but the guy i talked to on the bsd forums was a real jerk so i gave up :P ~j

It is not hard to say which one is better - read my long post and it will explain more in detail. Windows XP runs a lot better than Windows Vista.