Avoid Vista at all costs!

Here is my tip for the day.  Avoid Vista as long as possible!  Run away as fast as you can!  I bought this sweet new top of the line HP laptop from Amazon (with my Azoogle Rewards of course), and it came with Vista.  No problem I thought, I have to get used to it eventually.  The problem is the OS is a POS.  It turns out after many hours of research, that Vista doesn’t not work with 90% of the wireless connections out there.  It works fine while wired, but you can forget wireless.  I tried HP support which is a total joke.  I used to be a system/network admin, so I know what I am doing.  After 1 minute on the support call it was clear I knew more about the tech, so I was on my own.   I tried MS forums and message boards.  I really just don’t have the time or patience to deal with this crap anymore so I am going to downgrade the laptop to XP.  I normally dont bash MS but how the hell can they release an OS that they know is not going to work with wireless??  Not to mention all the IPv6 crap that sends double DNS queries for all your IP requests.  What a joke!