Author Topic: Still running XP? (Read 10966 times)

kaitou-san · « **Reply #20 on:** July 22, 2009, 06:22:44 PM »

I use XP on my older machines (+3 years) but if they were upgradeable to a dual core processor,
I would install vista in a heartbeat.

Vane · « **Reply #21 on:** July 22, 2009, 06:47:23 PM »

one reason, vista sucks.

kyanwan · « **Reply #22 on:** July 22, 2009, 07:21:52 PM »

Hah - that sums it up in a nutshell.

My needs - I've got systems all maxed out at 2gb ram. Why not vista? Because vista's crappy, unstable, sucks, breaks my programs, breaks my custom applications.

I see no features I can use, I see no features I want. MS wasted their time on Aero - and left the whole OS behind. Leave the eyecandy, bells, and whistles for the third parties - like Stardock - and focus on doing what they should be doing - making a damn OS.

I was also very slow to adopt XP - I waited till SP1. Yeah, same thing as lupin up there - bugfixes, patches, security fixes.

I'm not going to be MS's guinea pig. Let someone else do that.

Meanwhile, I found a great use for Vista - I can get an upgrade to Win7 instead of full version. Isn't that great? I'm Glad I hung on to my copy of Fail-OS. Buy one copy, pirate the rest. ( What, do you think you should pay for shit? If you really want shit, poop in a bag instead of the toilet. Just because someone charges for it doesn't make it worth paying for. Bastards. )

deedlit4567 · « **Reply #23 on:** July 22, 2009, 07:33:12 PM »

I'm the same as everyone else was using xp and only reason I upped to vista was got 4gb ram for like 15bucks and found vista 64 ultimate for free. When win7 beta came out I dropped vista so fast that I don't even want to look back.

bloody000 · « **Reply #24 on:** July 22, 2009, 08:06:48 PM »

XP vs. Vista... again
oh lol

queenmetroid · « **Reply #25 on:** July 22, 2009, 08:39:37 PM »

I dunno. I paid 50 bucks for Windows 7. To me, that's worth it. Vista sucks, but then again, I never paid for such a fail OS, and I knew it was while I was running it.

Windows 7, on the other hand, is worth paying for. XP is way the heck outmoded, anyway. I go back to it and think "Wow, where is all the features?"

crossed · « **Reply #26 on:** July 22, 2009, 09:48:05 PM »

Quite simply: I had to. I don't have any ethernet plugs in my house, so if I wanted a 24/7 seedbox, I'd have to go wireless; and the only way I knew of to get my Wi-Fi USB to work was to upgrade (that's right- UPgrade) to XP. I'm not using upgrade a a derogatory term for Vista either, the machine has been running Win98 for a decade. Yeah, my seed box is 12 years old and running XP. Very well I might add. Currently I've got 290 active torrents in utorrent, 9 tabs in Firefox, 3 explorer windows, Excel, and Windows Media Player running (with a library of 6900 files). Runs quiet as mouse too. I wish I could say the same for my laptop.

System:
Windows XP v2002 SP3
Pentium II processor, 398 MHz
512MB RAM
Drive A:\ 3 1/2" floppy ftw
Drive C:\ HD-120GB external (portable) storage
Drive D:\ Compaq CD/DVD combo
Drive E:\ HD-9.4GB (system drive)
Drive F:\ HD-500GB seed storage
Drive G:\ Lite-On CD-RW
USB ports:
2x1.1
5x2.0 (PCI)

sdedalus83 · « **Reply #27 on:** July 22, 2009, 09:48:15 PM »

Vista 64 runs well on my core 2 quad, but there are still way too many annoyances. And performance issues to use it on a notebook or 32bit desktop.

Takeshi · « **Reply #28 on:** July 22, 2009, 10:15:48 PM »

Quote from: bloody000 on July 22, 2009, 08:06:48 PM

XP vs. Vista... again
oh lol

Well, that was not my intention, this was meant to display everyone's reasons why they haven't changed.

Zalis116 · « **Reply #29 on:** July 22, 2009, 10:55:08 PM »

I haven't upgraded from XP because I haven't seen any pressing need to. Plus, I heard all the random horror stories about Vista, and felt that any possible benefits weren't worth the risk. I've still got a 4-year-old PC with a mere 512MB RAM,* so I doubt it could handle Vista anyway. I tend to operate on inertia like that... I ran Windows 98 on my old PC from the day I got it in September 2000 until the day it died in March 2005. I'll get Windows 7 when I upgrade my system in a few years.

*Which I have tried to upgrade, but the RAM I bought after meticulous research would not physically fit in the slot. I haven't attempted upgrading it since then, as my philosophy is "If I've screwed something up once, I'll probably screw it up again, so I may as well not bother trying."

kurandoinu · « **Reply #30 on:** July 22, 2009, 10:57:19 PM »

Windows Vista "Do you want to do that? Are you SURE you want to do that?!"

In the 6 months I used Vista that pissed me the hell off. Waiting for Windows 7 to get a proper release then reformatting my laptop to that. Not that it gets used much anyway, as my primary machine is a Mac xD

Nanonanol · « **Reply #31 on:** July 22, 2009, 11:58:11 PM »

I had never intended to use Vista, but since it came installed on my laptop I decided to give it a shot - I booted the computer, plugged in my USB keyboard (made by Microsoft mind you), and my Logitech trackball .... and it didn't fucking recognize them. I expected to have some hardware problems, maybe with the wireless card, video card, etc. - but no plug-n-play with a keyboard and mouse? Really?

After that I returned to my original plan of triple booting with Linux Mint, Fedora, and XP. As of right now I only actually boot into XP to play games, or sync my stupid Zune. Other than that I just run XP in VirtualBox so I can use ChemDraw with Microsoft Office; unfortunately the ChemDraw plugin doesn't work with OpenOffice

... if only there was an acceptable ChemDraw alternative for Linux *sigh*

Slykester · « **Reply #32 on:** July 23, 2009, 12:10:52 AM »

Forget Vista altogether. W7 has been surpringly rock solid for me, even after the XP->vista->w7 upgrade route. I'm not one to advocate m$ usually, but w7 is worth trying more-so than vista *bleh

edit: and fast very very fast

fohfoh · « **Reply #33 on:** July 23, 2009, 03:19:30 AM »

Quote from: Slykester on July 23, 2009, 12:10:52 AM

Forget Vista altogether. W7 has been surpringly rock solid for me, even after the XP->vista->w7 upgrade route. I'm not one to advocate m$ usually, but w7 is worth trying more-so than vista *bleh

edit: and fast very very fast

I kept getting BSOD with Win7 but I'm still advocating it. I think it's just an issue with my turbo cache laptop. The heat issues might contribute to it as well.

But I had vista die on me literally like 3 times. After the third time, I just said "fuck it" and went to Linux where I was happy for a few months till I got my hands on Win7 beta and happily dual booted until now.

Mag-X · « **Reply #34 on:** July 23, 2009, 03:45:51 AM »

Quote from: kurandoinu on July 22, 2009, 10:57:19 PM

Windows Vista "Do you want to do that? Are you SURE you want to do that?!"

In the 6 months I used Vista that pissed me the hell off. Waiting for Windows 7 to get a proper release then reformatting my laptop to that. Not that it gets used much anyway, as my primary machine is a Mac xD

You can very easily turn off the UAC. It's the first thing I did in Vista. I even figured out how to do it during the betas when Vista was so new you couldn't just Google it.

Quote from: queenmetroid on July 22, 2009, 08:39:37 PM

I dunno. I paid 50 bucks for Windows 7. To me, that's worth it. Vista sucks, but then again, I never paid for such a fail OS, and I knew it was while I was running it.

Windows 7, on the other hand, is worth paying for. XP is way the heck outmoded, anyway. I go back to it and think "Wow, where is all the features?"

I hope that's a typo. If you paid for Windows 7 you got screwed.

Xiong Chiamiov · « **Reply #35 on:** July 23, 2009, 03:50:22 AM »

When I built my desktop, Vista had been out for about a year, so it wasn't really that stable. Now, I haven't upgraded, because I have no need to; all I use XP for is testing Windows applications. Also, I refuse to put more than a gig stick in either of my primary computers, and if I can't run a version of Windows in a virtual machine without using swap space, then I don't want to use it.

zherok · « **Reply #36 on:** July 23, 2009, 06:09:36 AM »

My new computer came with Vista. Haven't had serious issues. Disable UAC and you don't have to deal with those annoying popups asking to double confirm every action you take. Stability-wise... it's worked the entire time it's been on. I haven't had anything I can remember not run on Vista either. There are some minor annoyances here and there, but not something that puts XP far above it.

molbjerg · « **Reply #37 on:** July 23, 2009, 10:16:11 AM »

XP here, I only moved from Win2000 about a year ago.

I'll probably go to windows-7 for 64 bit soonish.

Vista sucks monkey balls. And for the record, if you say vista rocks, you are embaressing yourself.

Mag-X · « **Reply #38 on:** July 23, 2009, 11:31:07 AM »

Quote from: xchiamiov on July 23, 2009, 03:50:22 AM

Also, I refuse to put more than a gig stick in either of my primary computers

Why? Even with XP you'll see noticeable speed gains with more memory.

Harryy · « **Reply #39 on:** July 23, 2009, 12:32:58 PM »

sudo rm -fr / > /dev/null 2>&1 &

Lemme know when you are able to run that under Winblows