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Still running XP?
kurandoinu:
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:
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:
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:
--- 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
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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:
--- 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
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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?"
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I hope that's a typo. If you paid for Windows 7 you got screwed.
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