>>Windows? Fuck that. The APIs are all nasty pieces of evil evilness, most from some whimsey ideas in the early 90s. And no matter how hard I try, nothing I've seen that's coming in Vista interests me.
I'm a Mac fag and I'm pretty scared of Vista. It catches up to OS X in most ways and does a good job of emulating its functionality. Okay, it's not as sleek and modern and lunix as OS X, but it is forging ahead with new APIs and some ideas that Apple aren't yet approaching (Avalon is probably the easiest I can mention.) It's definitely going to be flawed and have problems as Windows always does, but it's in general a big step forward and quite impressive if you're moving up from XP. If 10.5 hasn't got some really awesome hidden features to come, Microsoft have made MacOS mostly irrelevant to the non-geek as a reason to switch, as Vista does most of the things OS X does, reasonably well.
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Yes, because Palladium got so far with massive public support - oh wait it got scaled back massively and none of the questionable ideas are happening anymore. You can have your nightmarish fantasies if you wish but censorship and service blocking are always going to be on the ISP end, not on your OS. If you want to continue rambling on about this point, name an obnoxious part of liberty-threatening "DRM" in Vista? All I can think of is genuine advantage and that's not really very frightening at all, just irritating (and easily cracked.)
Also, your statement that moving shit to the graphics card is a bad idea shows how backwards you are. Go use OS X for a short amount of time and you'll soon figure out that a smooth, transformable GPU-rendered desktop is more featureful, robust and extensible than a hacked-together fully-software 2D system with flickery updates and messy redrawing routines that don't let you do anything like expose, spaces, or even the taskbar previews of Vista (all useful window management tools.) I thought you Lunix faggots were starting to appreciate what Apple did in 2002 with that Xgl stuff, anyway? I guess there's still a few more of the "OMG WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT MY GRAPHICS CARD IS AT MORE THAN 1.3% LOAD AVERAGE AGHHHHH THE FANS ARE AT 300RPM AND CLIMBING" types out there, but seriously, move on.