Is Vista that bad?

[Targarama]

Sorting out my Stepdad's newish PC the other day, which is about 10 months old. Its an entry-spec Dell desktop and is running MS Vista home. I've never experienced Vista before. What a horrid interface. Also makes his machine run like a dog -and it all seems to be OS/UI related slowness (with 1GB memory and about 30% HDD used).

Anyone else find Vista really slow? I'm thinking about buying him a copy of XP...

[Targarama]

Thanks.

Actually, one of the slow points is boot time/shutdown time. Guess I won't make that much better...