GM with Vista: not so bad?

So I recently got a brand new computer.  Windows Vista 64 bit.  I’ve needed a new computer for a very long time now; my last one is about seven years old and takes about 5x as long as it should for just about everything.

But I was a little apprehensive about buying this new computer.  I mean, I use Game Maker quite a lot, and with all those threads appearing in the GMC community with members complaining about how Vista decimates their attempts at using Game Maker, what else was I to figure other than that I too would receive such horrible problems?  Well, I was quite wrong.