Yeah I use to hate vista but I think that is because I never took the time to try it. Now that I have my new computer I don't think it is to bad. I am thinking about dual booting though, just not sure yet.
I tried running puppy linux on it and it ran good but then started getting realy slughish, I could figure out why either, if I reboot puppy linux it will do the same thing it will run good for a little then get slugish.
I have tried many diffrent versions of linux on my old 2.80 p4.
To name a few; puppy linux, kubuntu, ubuntu, and fadora