Is Vista Good?

The much awaited windows vista was launched last January 30, 2007 . Everyone wants to have a copy of it but do we really need it? I myself wants it but I really don't need it because most of the softwares I use has compatibility issues with vista. For testing purposes I still installed it on my system but I'm not satisfied with the performance coz it used 700mb of my ram in idle mode which is not good. It uses a lot of system resources but feature wise it does way better than xp plus it includes the aero graphics which is a cool graphical desktop effects. So if your computer has less than 1gb of ram and has old video card then vista is not for you and just forget upgrading. On the other hand you might try linux with xgl which surpasses the aero graphics of vista and the best thing about it is it's free. Here are some of my screenshots of xgl on my system. (first pic is vista and the others are from linux xgl)