Thread: Windows 7

Originally Posted by Marvo

Windows 7 is pretty good, definitely better than Vista. It uses less power, it's faster, the new interface is kinda like OSX (which is cool), and it's got pre-installed drivers for virtually everything.

I like it so far, aside for a few bugs. It's extremely well running and performing for a beta, and I might actually just buy the full version once it's released (atleast for my laptop).

I can definitely recommend it, and I don't know what XKCD is one about. He's just being the stupid asshole that he usually is I suppose.

As a side note, remember to install it as a dual boot. I didn't and now I have to manually delete all of my applications and install them again.

you forget that Vista (Longhorn) beta 1 was praised for it's speed as well, it was only after beta 2 that things nosedived

There's an old saying "You can't polish shit." Windows will not be good until they remove the registry, defragment on the fly, remove the dll based support, and beef up the low level security.

Mythbusters proved you actually can shine shit.


Just saying.

Originally Posted by Ynot

you forget that Vista (Longhorn) beta 1 was praised for it's speed as well, it was only after beta 2 that things nosedived

You guys are too negative. Windows 7 is a huge OSX rip-off, no doubt, but that doesn't mean it sucks. I'd rather run OSX, but since it doesn't have as much support as Windows, I don't. Until games can run on OSX, I'm staying with Windows.

Most game companies release version for both because of the growing popularity of OSX.

Even if Windows 7 looks exactly like OSX, it's still windows under the hood and that's where most of the problems are. As much as the Explorer interface sucks compared to Aqua, NT vs Darwin isn't even a contest.

I suppose. This is plenty good enough for me though.

I gave Windows 7 a shot in Virtual PC after grabbing the beta. It ran pretty well when I had it set to 512MB RAM, which I was pretty impressed with. Although I couldn't use Aero or anything like that in Virtual PC anyway.

I suppose the new taskbar is something I can get used to, but I still do not like the MSOffice ribbon! What was so wrong with the menu bar in Wordpad and Paint? If they are intent on keeping this thing, at least make it smaller or something, geez.

Anyway, if they can keep the development in the direction it's going, I think I may skip Vista for 7 instead when it comes time for me to ditch XP.

The thing is, the only reason why people refuse to step over to Linux/OSX is that they're too lazy to switch over.
The step is a bit smaller for IE-FireFox, but many people don't do that either. As a web developer I absolutely hate IE

But back to windows 7
Is it faster than previous OS's? What about the GFX?
I agree with Ninja that it needs a huge overhaul. Throw out the registry, kill the dlls.
It's annoying how much your computer gets filled up with crap over the time if you're running windows. I usually clean up by hand (as there aren't really any very good cleaning progs), but it takes ages...
They're aiming for a 7 second boot time, but I think that's that something they cannot do. Windows is just to cluttery for that. You get 7 seconds on the very first, clean boot, but once you start installing stuff, you'll get 1 minute boot times, I think.
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I also don't like microsoft, because what they really are, is a bunch of rippers and stealers, while presenting it as their own.
The mouse: Apple's Idea! The Zune: Iphone, anyone? IE: What, copied Netscape's source code?
The list goes on and on. All of this combined with sloppy programming and security...
Blegh.

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Originally Posted by ThreeLetterSyndrom

The thing is, the only reason why people refuse to step over to Linux/OSX is that they're too lazy to switch over.

Get all DirectX games to run on OSX/Linux, and I will switch. Also, they need to run as well as on Windows, or better.

Lots of companies are switching to OpenGL because no platforms support DirectX other than windows and XBox, so Direct X games lose a huge part of the market.

Originally Posted by ThreeLetterSyndrom

I agree with Ninja that it needs a huge overhaul. Throw out the registry, kill the dlls.

And that would pretty much kill one of the major features of windows: backwards compatability.

Originally Posted by ThreeLetterSyndrom

...once you start installing stuff, you'll get 1 minute boot times, I think.

Well, that says more about those other apps than windows now doesn't it?

Originally Posted by ThreeLetterSyndrom

The mouse: Apple's Idea!

No it wasn't. Learn your computer history!

Originally Posted by Stalker

No it wasn't. Learn your computer history!

He's right, Xerox built the first modern mouse, they just never released it. Apple bought it from Xerox, Microsoft pirated it from Apple.

I'm downloading it right now, backing up all my stuff also; i want to do a clean intall, computers been running slower lately.

Every company copies, if they dident then software and tech would get nowhere.

7 seconds? Shit, OSX takes a good 15. There is no way that Microsoft will make a 7 second boot time.