Poll: What's your Operating System?
- Thread starter luke10123
- Start date
Recommended Videos
Yeah, I moved to 7 with a new PC, and damn...it HURTS to go back. Don't be scared, 7 really is quite a nice OS.
W7 64 for me at home.
Bought it with vista* and the hardware was so much better than my old PC I thought "why do people moan about vista so much?" then I put w7 on and realised "oh, it really was slow". Heh.
Honestly, I would recommend the switch. the UAC is at worst a minor annoyance and for the few things they have made worse *cough* shared folders *cough* they have made loads of things better. Thumbnails can be any size, windows key + tab is way better than alt + tab. Searchable start menu....
* Yes, I bought prebuilt. No, I don't care that I could have done it cheaper myself. My time has value too.
Bought it with vista* and the hardware was so much better than my old PC I thought "why do people moan about vista so much?" then I put w7 on and realised "oh, it really was slow". Heh.
Honestly, I would recommend the switch. the UAC is at worst a minor annoyance and for the few things they have made worse *cough* shared folders *cough* they have made loads of things better. Thumbnails can be any size, windows key + tab is way better than alt + tab. Searchable start menu....
* Yes, I bought prebuilt. No, I don't care that I could have done it cheaper myself. My time has value too.
A new gaming PC with windows XP?luke10123 said:
So no DirectX 10 or 11 support, eh?
Which, at the moment, only means you can't play Battlefield 3 and Halo 2, but that list'll get longer. I'd upgrade. I know it's hard, given that Vista was a steaming pile of ass, but 7 is actually really nice. I picked up an OEM copy for $100, and it's been pretty excellent.
I'm on Windows 7, 32 bit. But if it wasn't for games being all Windows, I'd be 100% Linux.
It's free, it's faster, and it's more secure. Linux is awesome.
Again: Except for games. Then it's a hassle.
I'm running windows 7 ultimate 64 bit on a desktop, and windows xp on a bunch of other PCs including my laptop.
Windows 7 64 bit is quite good .. mainly 'cos I really like my ginormous amounts of RAM for video editing.
Leaving UAC on isn't that big a deal, as you should have local admin rights anyway.
For the most part, it's just the occasional prompt asking for permission.
The only thing that's really annoying is not being able to manually edit files that are under program files (to change settings in .ini files etc), but I just copy to desktop, edit, rename old file, and copy back. It's just one extra step 'cos I used to make backups anyway.
Windows 7 64 bit is quite good .. mainly 'cos I really like my ginormous amounts of RAM for video editing.
Leaving UAC on isn't that big a deal, as you should have local admin rights anyway.
For the most part, it's just the occasional prompt asking for permission.
The only thing that's really annoying is not being able to manually edit files that are under program files (to change settings in .ini files etc), but I just copy to desktop, edit, rename old file, and copy back. It's just one extra step 'cos I used to make backups anyway.
Wait what? Must be one shitty computer if it still comes with Windows XP. Not that it's bad or anything, but it's pretty old by now. I thought they actually stopped selling that. I mean, you ain't got no DX10 or DX11, and more and more games are going to need that and stop using DX9.luke10123 said:
So yeah, I upgraded a while back to Windows 7 64-bit edition.
My PC really isn't made for gaming (or anything more strenuous than Internet), so I see no reason to get rid of my Vista. Can't be bothered to upgrade to w7, not on this pile of junk.
Eh. Windows 7 64 bit on one PC, Windows XP on 3 others.
(And various linux and FreeBSD partitions that I never use.)
(And various linux and FreeBSD partitions that I never use.)
My gaming rig uses both win7 pro 64bit and xp pro 64bit, i uses win7 for gaming, and general work where xp gets used for older programs which don't work on vista up os's (e.g. SSADM). I must say my machine is notably faster on 7 which is surprising considering xp uses less resources, but then again it was never designed for multi-core processor's (i did run vista on this for a period of 2 days and went back to xp, that thing was lag fest and will never touch a computer i own again).
Nah, Win7 seems faster 'cos it "cheats."devotedsniper said:
Simplistic version:
There's this preload folder that tells it which programs you like using, and instead of loading hundreds of files every time you run something, you're loading one giant file.
It's much faster, but you will notice that stuff isn't as fast the first time you run it, or after recovering from some crashes, 'cos it loses the preloaded file.
I am indeed aware of the superfetch system and while it may cheat, it works well doesn't it so need to bash it really and when you think about it a cpu basically does the same thing with it's cache only it's (regularly used) instructions rather than files.Danceofmasks said:
Either way i cant complain when it comes down to doing what i designed it for gaming and coding, even with 1gb ram down at the moment it still manages to max all modern games @ 1680*1050 (was 4gb but 1 stick blew).
I love Win2000 and WinXP, but due to the limits to RAM and other things in those systems, I'm using a 64 bit Win7.
