Windows 7 v Vista

[dpastern (Dave Pastern)]

Screw that Andrew. Rather use Linux or BSD any day, might as well use the *real* thing lol.

Dave

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by dpastern

Screw that Andrew. Rather use Linux or BSD any day, might as well use the *real* thing lol.

Or AIX, or Solaris, or HP-UX.

But given that you might be forced to use M$ for political reasons, cygwin http://www.cygwin.com or UnixUtils http://sourceforge.net/projects/unxutils/ , or M$ Unix Services http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en give you an approximation of a *real* O/S.

Andrew

[supernova1965 (Warren)]

Originally Posted by dpastern

Screw that Andrew. Rather use Linux or BSD any day, might as well use the *real* thing lol.

Dave

The only thing stopping Linux from taking off for the home user is lack of all the games that you can play on Windows. For serious work I use Linux

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by supernova1965

The only thing stopping Linux from taking off for the home user is lack of all the games that you can play on Windows. For serious work I use Linux

If you want to play games, buy a PS3, or Wii, or DS, or XBox.

[Kal (Andrew)]

I'll be building a new box for W7 soon (already started buying components). I've bypassed vista on all fronts, never used it at home, and it was only rolled out where I work (hp) within the last year on refreshed work pc's so I never used it there either.

[Kevnool (Kev)]

Ah windows 7 now i went into our local shop with the cash to purchase but put it back in my pocket when i asked him about upgrading my Toshiba A300 from XP to 7 then he has told me its no go as it wont overwrite,

He then went on to tell me i have to go back to toshiba and get every driver i need then fresh install.

So i scratched my head walked back out with the cash in my pocket and still to this day i`m still wondering why.

Not that i,m really worried about it but i did want to do the upgrade at that time but now i just don't seem fussed about it at the moment but later on when techies now a bit more i may convert then.

Cheers Kev.

[supernova1965 (Warren)]

Originally Posted by Kevnool

Ah windows 7 now i went into our local shop with the cash to purchase but put it back in my pocket when i asked him about upgrading my Toshiba A300 from XP to 7 then he has told me its no go as it wont overwrite,

He then went on to tell me i have to go back to toshiba and get every driver i need then fresh install.

So i scratched my head walked back out with the cash in my pocket and still to this day i`m still wondering why.

Not that i,m really worried about it but i did want to do the upgrade at that time but now i just don't seem fussed about it at the moment but later on when techies now a bit more i may convert then.

Cheers Kev.

What he meant was that you can't do an upgrade from XP to WIN 7 because Microsoft have made big changes from XP to WIN 7 and the differences mean you cant upgrade you have to backup all your data and format your Hard Drive and do clean install. A pain because you have to reinstall all your software but I personally think that the improvements make it worth while. As for drivers from what I can see of your Lappy on the net I think that you would have no trouble there should be heaps of drivers for that one.

[Starkler (Geoff)]

Originally Posted by supernova1965

The only thing stopping Linux from taking off for the home user is lack of all the games that you can play on Windows. For serious work I use Linux

For me theres just too many things that I can only do in windows.

I have spent too much time in linux manually editing configs, trying to configure, patch,compile and otherwise mess about just to make things work like windows does out of the box.

If I wanted to build a server box I would use linux, for everything else windows just makes it easy, and it just works.

[Tandum (Robin)]

You won't get Bluray on linux either

[Kevnool (Kev)]

Originally Posted by supernova1965

What he meant was that you can't do an upgrade from XP to WIN 7 because Microsoft have made big changes from XP to WIN 7 and the differences mean you cant upgrade you have to backup all your data and format your Hard Drive and do clean install. A pain because you have to reinstall all your software but I personally think that the improvements make it worth while. As for drivers from what I can see of your Lappy on the net I think that you would have no trouble there should be heaps of drivers for that one.

Thx Warren looks like the upgrade will have to wait till something happens to this lappie....... i.e blue screen of death.

Cheers Kev.

[Tandum (Robin)]

Kev, if it works why try and break it? From a dealer point of view, Win7 is a god send, it downloads all the drivers it wants from the net but most are inside the package. I'm so sick of finding xp drivers for del/hp/toshy/asus/all the rest out there. You go to the download page and there are 4 drivers for 4 different wireless cards in the same model. It sux ....