Thread: Any one running Win7 yet?

Originally Posted by Ynot

Judging by the pricing and upgrade decisions made by MS, and the absolutely huge surge of interest for Ubuntu, I'm guessing Win7 will have a tough time

There's no upgrade path from XP to 7
you have to buy a full priced copy of 7, and do a clean install
At the peak (trough?) of the recession, this seems bonkers, and I think the sheer cost is the driving force behind the interest in Linux

I must have seen half-a-dozen mainstream news sources comparing Win7 with Ubuntu in the last few days

Examples
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...indows7-review
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...ts-user-nerve/

I don't think 7 will flop as hard as vista, but it certainly won't gain much traction either, if these early signs of discontent continue

I exported my settings and some document files from XP via the user migration program, and win7 got the stuff... I had to fix some things but it's smoothly working.

Had problems running old dvd programs like k-probe etc.

Never really used Vista so I can't compare.

I'm now running 7. All programs migrated w/o issue. Other than a slow start up I see no flaws (yet). This is what vista should have been, a clean build not an os stacked on a xp frame.

I've got Windows 7 Ultimate x86, upgraded from Vista. So far, it's much better. It's faster, sleeker, and all around a much better system, both in aesthetics and performance.

I had a BSOD from an nvidia driver but I think I installed the latter via windows update. Win7 wouldn't start afterwards due to this driver.
I uninstalled the driver after booting in safe mode.
Then I downloaded the driver from nvidia's site. It's now working well again..

I've got Win 7 Ultimate 64 shipping on my replacement Alienware machine (exchange system for my broken XPS M1730). Should be here in a week, and Windows 7 should run superbly on it

So yeah, I had an action-packed Saturday night installing W7 on my desktop

So far I'm noticing it is way faster to boot and wildly more responsive than Vista. I did a clean install, so I'm still filling in the blanks w/ software, but it's been really painless so far. The only driver I had to chase down was my nigh-vintage sound card, but it's out there and Creative's proprietary (actually semi-useful) software looks more developed on W7 than Vista. I ran Windows Easy Transfer beforehand, so most of my old preferences and file structure were back in place in ten minutes, despite the clean install.

All the aesthetics are much improved over Vista, and the new taskbar feels positively OSX, without the limitations. Overall, where Vista was a dubious improvement over XP, this is an undeniable upgrade. Even the artwork with the included themes is about ten times better.

I thought Windows 7 looked a lot like KDE, but the Windows Project Leader says that they copied Apple .

Originally Posted by ninja9578

I thought Windows 7 looked a lot like KDE

Indeed,
did you see that advert (some OEM computer shop) that was pimping Win7 and had a big picture of a laptop running KDE

*edit*
http://linuxundich.de/en/ubuntu/wind...lation-an-kde/

So I wasn't the only one. I guess Microsoft got tired of people claiming that they were knocking of OSX, they figured very few people used or even knew what KDE was, so they decided to copy that.

I do enjoy the docking to the side of the screen though, I hope OSX has this feature soon.


I will say this though. As a developers, Windows 7 is a FUCKING NIGHTMARE! When I first started testing on it, my software wouldn't even install. So I upgraded my installer script, then my application's folder needed admin privileges, so that it couldn't write it's debug log, then it couldn't open the new ActiveX controls. I spent an entire week fixing stuff that worked in XP and Vista, and I still have random failures with installs.