I really HATE Windows
 

Dicsuss: -

You arty creative bast@rd... :D

I actually enjoy wrestling with the gubbins to get it to do useful work... :lol1:

Currently waiting for a Molex extractor, via Ebay, to mess around with a PSU and Mo-Bo that had some issues with overheating.

dunx

I turned on my Windows desktop to retrieve something this morning - it took 17 minutes of thrashing about to settle down and actually work!!!! Grrrrrrrrr!

Mind you - it is Vista which I would regard as a very low point of a very low product!!!

If you enjoy messing about with gubbins then why not Linux or Unix?

nah winblows ME that should never have come out of the abortion bucket

unlucky chap. dumped Mr Gates et al back in January. moved to Linux an didn't look back. you should give it a whirl with a live cd, seriously. with an SSD my Ubuntu installation takes about 8 seconds from splash screen to logon page.

You're a Mac user. Like most Mac users you don't have the intelligence to use Windows. Go back to your Mac! ;)

P.S. Typed from my Windows PC that took 20 seconds to boot like it always does!

Well I like them...it means I can see outside :luxhello:

Tried to burn a bootable dvd from an iso file on a Macbook Pro last night (to test if the DVDs were sh!te or my burner was sh!te). All those who say OS X is "user friendly" are talking out of their rear ends! And this from someone who has spent many years with Unix/Linux/Windows/DOS. Had to Google in the end.

Dave

PS: turns out it was my burner that was sh!te. The Mac did burn the DVDs - though not tested them yet.

Trout, that may have been true with early Linux variants, but today's latest Linux distos are very civilised. you can still Unix command line from a terminal window but most of the commands now have nice Gnome or Nautilus frontends. Central repository for everything, drivers, software update, 3rd party software, the vast majority of it for free because of the open source nature of Linux.

I have to say I had my doubts, but distros like Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora, Mint etc all just work out of the box. The live CDs take all the pain out of installation. I ran with a dual boot Linux/minimal XP installation until I found that Linux will emulate Windows for almost any piece of software you can think of. Ok games are not going to run optimally but if I want to play games I have a dedicated Xbox 360 for them. I eventually reformatted and just stuck Ubuntu 10.10 on my big rig. My old laptops have also regained a new lease of life. Linux Mint runs as sweet as a nut on my 1.3 celeron laptop with 512MB of RAM.

Beaten to the punch line :luxhello:

....if it ain't broke........ still on XP here :D

To be fair I use XP as a VM on my Mac and it works really well - I use it for Office to keep my clients happy.

However Vista and generally Windows only machines don't do it for me.

I mean why does XP boot up twice as fast on my Mac than it does on my friend Vaio of similar spec!

Vista, godawful :(, its on the lappy i use, its so unintuitive it defies belief :lol1:

Give me XP anyday,

at least it just dosent work :lol1:, but on the flip side, i do have control over it, and there are loads of others out there who can help.

Mart

BTW turn of auto updates and take control :)

Do they both have a SSD?

Vista is just big mistake,W7 is little bit better,with some apps i'm still limited,but XP still don't support DX11 and will not be,yes is out there patch,but still is no the best.

I'm running Linux,XP,W7 and MacOSX.


Jura

I was surprised I was the first :D

They both don't...


...now if we were comparing it to an i7 Air the Vaio would be in the weeds!

i7 Air i will compare with new Asus UX21 or Intel Ultrabook;)



Jura

Sure - but I wasn't so there :p ;)

win7 boot from hibernation = win

Well my PC boots up from off to all my software loaded in under 30 seconds so I'm not that worried.

Using Windows is a bit like being asked to understand power routing and load balancing because you want to turn on a light. So you are right - I enjoy using a Mac as I open it and it is on and I don't need a computer science or engineering degree to do the things that I want.

Windows always seem to be configuring itself to do all sort so stuff that I am not convinced I want and seem to be hard to get rid of with that Computer Science course!!!

Macs have made you soft man!!

I am typing this from a MacBook and I have no idea why people think that a Mac is easier to use. The gesture stuff in Lion is very cool and I get some sort of weird pleasure swiping the pages back and forth in safari but apart from that they both do the same thing.

If anything the Mac hides a lot of things and you have to delve into the murky depths of terminal to switch things on and off where-as windows has worked very hard to cast of its DOS past.

Steve

Vista is dire. I have Win 7 on my desktop with an SSD and its logged in and working in less than 40 secs :) Its also pretty speedy on my new HP company lappy.

As I said get back to your toy and leave the real computers to us :thumb:

To be honest I think if you're familiar with one you will always find the other a learning curve. It's just a familiarity thing.

PICNIC. To be honest win7 is childs play to install/setup and use any compatible application on, I really don't see what the issues are.

The issue is it doesn't stay that way. Win 7 was a revelation, the first MS operating system that you could confidently install on most hardware and it would work, brilliant. Give it a month though and your install will be trashed. In most cases it's trashed already by some random company that you bought your hardware from.

Windows 8 maybe.

And what's all this talk about shutting down, do people still shut computers down for no good reason?