Dancing with the devil

So I thought I’d celebrate the release of Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake”) by installing Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2.

Before I get flamed I’d like to point out that I am running Dapper on another machine.

Initial impressions are:

Everything is nice and shiny
The install is pretty straight forward, and there’s are basically no options beside choosing to upgrade or install, and how you want to use the disks
For once all my hardware worked, although the soundcard needed drivers but Vista automatically retrieved them
It asks you to confirm most actions¹ – this is A Good Thing™ on the whole but it can get annoying, especially when it’s asking you to confirm the action you just manually chosen!
IE7+ feels much like IE7 does

I’ll post some more when I’ve had time to delve into it further.

Chris Pirillo has compiled a couple of lists of what he considers problems with the current Beta:

¹ I’ve not yet had this many confirmations though.