Quote Originally Posted by Aemilius Paulus View Post
It is also the future. XP's days are eclipsing and despite the welcome familiarity we have with it, all of us need to move on. The support (relatively soon to end) and drivers for XP are yet another reason for us/you to move on.
I disagree with this sentiment. If an OS works for you and runs all the programs that you need it to run, then you should stick with it. This is kind of like telling a hardcore Debian user to "upgrade" to Ubuntu.

Upgrading for the sake of upgrading is a mistake that many people make because they feel obliged to do so. XP is much lighter than Windows 7 or Vista so for gamers this is a very big plus. Games need as much CPU time and as much memory as you can spare so it's not good to have the OS hogging everything.