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3D may bot increase the usability by leaps and bounds for all desktop uses. But if Vista's Aero and 3D flip are going to be hyped so much, definitely Compiz offers far better and more useful feature set for much lesss hardware resources.

This is a bogus claim seen all over internet. Basing lack of viruses for Linux on its market share is totally baseless. The reason Linux and Mac OS X have fewer viruses is that they are based on time tested principles of UNIX. If market share is the reason, I have a counter-example. As of this very second, there are more sites (including mission critical ones) running on Apache. But the most number of real-world exploits have been on IIS (far more than Apache). The fact is the fast evolution and patching of open-source software makes exploits less likely. Even if Apache has more possible vulnerabilities at any particular point of time, they get fixed much faster than those of Windows. This makes it more difficult for the attacker to attack a large base of installation as patches would have been rolled out by then.

Then please don't comment on its current state.

I can give many, cost (OS, Anti-virus, Office suite, graphics app, etc), freedom (read Vista's EULA properly and there is a fat chance that u are already violating few of its terms, though u have bought ur copy legally). If u call it users' fault, I have installed Ubuntu, no anti-virus, not even firewall. I run few servers which are publicly accessible, so I have 6 ports opened with unrestricted port forwarding on router and all the servers using them are running in root mode. I check many spam attachments to ensure I don't miss something normal (especially if the subject is looking sensible). I have no virus or malware so far. I have installed it on 3 HP and 2 Dell laptops so far. No h/w or s/w issues on them too. My friend who got a dell laptop with Vista home basic, is finding it too slow for running heavy apps, mind u no Aero there. Also, u asked me not to mention some of the primary negatives of Vista. Also, in the original article most (not all) of the references are from eminent trusted sites not some kid's blog.

You have no Anti-Virus and you haven't had any virus yet. Is this based on the theory that if you can't identify a virus it can't exist? I might as well close my eyes and say the sun hasn't come out today.