Thread: Any one running Win7 yet?

Tell me, is it smother than Vista? What Incapabilities are you having with it so far? I hate with a passion, Vista and want to give Win7 a try. Just looking for any imput.

I have a test machine at work. It has trouble installingthings because they changes permissions, causing developers lots of headaches. It's also slow as he'll to load, more than a minute.

I was sooo close to grabbing an upgrade copy at Best Buy yesterday but opted against it because I was already upgrading my storage and I have a lot of gift giving in my near future (birthday and a baby shower between now and Xmas). I probably won't worry about it until Spring.

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

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.

Well I picked up a copy at lunch today, so we'll see if MS got there act together. Hope this all works out.

I'm reconsidering picking up the family pack, 3 licenses for $150. I only have two machines, but it's only $30 more than a single upgrade, and you can use it on XP or Vista (my netbook runs XP). I'm sure I can find a home for the final license

It's a very good system, it hardly has any incompatibility issues for the normal user, it runs much smoother than Vista, and it has a lot of neat security features. Overall, it's what Vista should've been.

I've been using it since beta myself, and I'm very very pleased.

Never the less, I suggest you use Ubuntu if you're not gonna be playing any games or use any programs that might have incompatibility issues. The gaming issue is all that is holding me back from going Ubuntu really.

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.