Windows 7 64 bit after many years of contentment with XP I decided to upgrade because its essentially a sleeker version of XP seriously screw vista.
Poll: What's your Operating System?
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W7 Ultimate 64 bit on desktop, W7 Professional 64 bit on laptop.
Yeah, stability, security, functions and the fact it's slowly gonna stop being supported by various products. Don't get me wrong, XP was a great system, but 7's just better.
Pre-user account control paradise? Wut?luke10123 said:
Yeah, stability, security, functions and the fact it's slowly gonna stop being supported by various products. Don't get me wrong, XP was a great system, but 7's just better.
For My Laptop I had XP for the last for years but since I bought a new one It came With 7 64-bit (Do I remember correctly that XP only suports up to 4gb of ram)
But the old laptop went to my stepson and XP is still alive and kickin'
Also partner has Vista and this OS sucks ass.. bigtime
But Seven is rather good.. I'd reccomend it but only for a real powerful rig.. Otherwise I'd go with XP anytime..
But the old laptop went to my stepson and XP is still alive and kickin'
Also partner has Vista and this OS sucks ass.. bigtime
But Seven is rather good.. I'd reccomend it but only for a real powerful rig.. Otherwise I'd go with XP anytime..
main - Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 32bit (that's Linux)
secondary - W7 32bit (not so useful)
experimental - anything (mostly for testing new Linux releases/distros)
secondary - W7 32bit (not so useful)
experimental - anything (mostly for testing new Linux releases/distros)
I'm running windows 7, 32 bit, on one laptop, its a crappy laptop that's 5 years old, but it runs better than my new laptop thats 64 bit and only 6 months old, the only thing i want windows to adopt, is an Expose style windows switcher.
Windows 7 64-bit with a Ubuntu (11 I think) dual boot. I usually use Windows 7 but I like playing around with Ubuntu, especially now that they have a bay at the side for programs. I know that Windows 7 has that, but it's just not as good.
I run 64-bit Windows 7 on my gaming rig, 32-bit Windows XP on my netbook, and I'm setting a dual boot of Ubuntu and XP 32-bit on my backup desktop.
As for upgrading to 7, do it, 7's UAC is easy to turn off, so that's a non-issue. I loved XP, and was wary about swapping to 7, but once you get settled in on 7 you'll wonder why it took you so long to change over.
And for the love of all that's holy, let's not start this into a Mac/PC thread, just gonna preempt that.
As for upgrading to 7, do it, 7's UAC is easy to turn off, so that's a non-issue. I loved XP, and was wary about swapping to 7, but once you get settled in on 7 you'll wonder why it took you so long to change over.
Bummer for having a Mac, and isn't Lion getting on in age now?Z of the Na said:
And for the love of all that's holy, let's not start this into a Mac/PC thread, just gonna preempt that.
The PC/Mac argument is stupid and flawed, anyway.Fayathon said:
You must have the Lion I am talking about confused with something else. This is the latest version of OSX, released back in July of this year, making Snow Leopard obsolete. Go figure.
Nah, I like prefetch.devotedsniper said:
Just that knowing how it works explains a lot, rather than getting worried wondering "why's my computer taking so long to load up, after the power out?"
I don't keep up with Mac, as I don't personally care for them, so I'm not sure which distributions are newest, ergo my confusion. I thought they were on OS 11 at this time...Z of the Na said:
I really should keep abreast of Mac stuff, considering I'm in school to to get my certs to fix computers for a living, even machines I dislike will be part of my job, it wouldn't be a good idea to assume that I can get away with not studying them. Though I do wish they'd use standardize they're parts, the last Mac we had in in class had a 22 pin P1 connector, when 20 or 24 pins are the standard.
I hate proprietary bullshit.... I'll stop ranting now, otherwise I might start complaining about Dell too.
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, but I'm about to make a flash drive of Puppy Linux, which lets me boot all my user preferences onto most computers in the world. Poll is a bit Windows biased? There are games on linux, despite popular opinion...
Yes, it's a 32-bit OS which means there are only 2^32 possible memory addresses, which equals 4gb of RAM.HyRock said:
I collect e-waste and try to make it run, here's what I have in the house:
Mine is a 2.5GHz Dell Pentium 4. Single core. Runs XP.
Wife has a Core Duo. Also running on XP. Uncertain if it's 32 or 64. Probably 64 bit.
We have a 3GHz IBM Desktop. It runs Ubuntu 9.
There's also:
- an 800MHz Pentium 4 that runs on Vector 6. I found that tower parked on a curb.
- an old 1GHz that runs Vector Light. My wife's old PC.
- a 1.8GHz Celeron with its guts all over the place at the moment, a hand-me-down from a friend who I was helping with it all the time until he broke down and bought a new machine. That one has XP. I plan to run some old games like TIE Fighter with the 40" LCD TV as a monitor.
- a Presario 1200XL-107 laptop that uses Windows 98SE. I wonder if I could get something for that as a collector's item???
- My mother's old k6-2 450 with DOS 6.22 installed. And my original SB-16 card slotted in it. A genuine DOS box.
- And finally, my old K6-2 500 which has been with me forever. Windows 98SE.
EDIT: For those not familiar, Ubuntu and Vector are different builds of Linux which have a GUI interface like Windows and Mac. My wife experimented with Ubuntu because she wanted to try a free operating system, and for free, it's pretty damn good until you need to use DirectX. I used Vector because I was interested in getting some old machines to run Diablo 2, and I'm too old to go chasing after cracks for operating systems. Vector is also free and runs pretty smooth until DirectX is involved.
Mine is a 2.5GHz Dell Pentium 4. Single core. Runs XP.
Wife has a Core Duo. Also running on XP. Uncertain if it's 32 or 64. Probably 64 bit.
We have a 3GHz IBM Desktop. It runs Ubuntu 9.
There's also:
- an 800MHz Pentium 4 that runs on Vector 6. I found that tower parked on a curb.
- an old 1GHz that runs Vector Light. My wife's old PC.
- a 1.8GHz Celeron with its guts all over the place at the moment, a hand-me-down from a friend who I was helping with it all the time until he broke down and bought a new machine. That one has XP. I plan to run some old games like TIE Fighter with the 40" LCD TV as a monitor.
- a Presario 1200XL-107 laptop that uses Windows 98SE. I wonder if I could get something for that as a collector's item???
- My mother's old k6-2 450 with DOS 6.22 installed. And my original SB-16 card slotted in it. A genuine DOS box.
- And finally, my old K6-2 500 which has been with me forever. Windows 98SE.
EDIT: For those not familiar, Ubuntu and Vector are different builds of Linux which have a GUI interface like Windows and Mac. My wife experimented with Ubuntu because she wanted to try a free operating system, and for free, it's pretty damn good until you need to use DirectX. I used Vector because I was interested in getting some old machines to run Diablo 2, and I'm too old to go chasing after cracks for operating systems. Vector is also free and runs pretty smooth until DirectX is involved.
Windows XP is ancient, heck Vista was better than it (I didnt get Vista until the patches fixed the issues and thus had a good experience with it using compatible hardware), 7 tho is definitely the best (especially now that I've gone to 64bit).luke10123 said: