After continued use, I reckon it's better than XP.

I WILL be upgrading (thats if they somehow stop people using Beta when the retail comes out :P )

BUT I will be relegating it to a media center PC and getting Linux PC as I mentioned.

UAC is easy to turn off and I have done. The admin thing was easy to sort out as well...I just tried to delete a file and it asked me for the admin thing but in the bottom left it asked to remember this so I clicked it and lo and behold, no admin pop ups

I have rid myself of the toolbar...didn't like it.

General running doesn't seem to bother it what so ever. Wouldn't call it bloated. Only once or twice has it slowed. And I took that to my placing Folding@home at a higher priortiy in the task manager (something XP said it could do but never did...so increased DC production marginally as you c an stop it being slowed as much by other processes..)

One major program I found that didn't work was MSN messenager :roll: or the Microsoft Intelli point software stuff cloes due to DEP and wont let me change keys even after adding it to the DEP exceptions :roll:

I don't see how it's a one size fits all really. Admittly not as changeable as linux...but then I've never really sat and played with linux majorly, just enough to know I like it.

No it doesn't ask for admin passord taters, it asks you to click next or simliar (as I said, I turned it off so dont have to :P) Minimalistic interface is achieves the same. I have a 64Mb RAM GFX card. (though I was led to believe it was 256Mb...f**king PC World...no wonder it cant run BF2 at higher res! :evil: )

Nflight, admittly this is a beta..they might tone some stuff down...

Java and quicktime aren't working right I believe. A known bug.