Windows 7

[Leon]

I got a PC with Vista and I didn't get no code. WTF?!

When did you buy it? There's some stipulations.

 

[UnidentifiedFlyingTard]

not all company's are doing that, I was just lucky I suppose.

 

[SuAside]

I got a PC with Vista and I didn't get no code. WTF?!

depends when you bought it.

if you bought it recently after the Vista release, there was no code. it's only later that they started doing that.

 

[Finesse]

Should i buy it?

 

[Nonagon]

Today is the day it comes out in case anyone is wondering. Good thing I pre-ordered...GOOD THING WE DON'T USE TINY FONT SIZES HERE RAAAH RAAH

 

[Verevoof]

Whoa, it's today? That was fast. I can't stand Vista anymore! Hopefully there won't be too much trouble getting it.

 

[Nonagon]

GOOD THING WE DON'T USE TINY FONT SIZES HERE RAAAH RAAH

Well shit, you're an admin, why don't you just, I don't know, disable it? Not like that would be logical or anything, rather than just chastising people who take advantage of that(Since it's completely enabled). So don't tell me what I can't fucking do, use your brain.

...or do you even have the admin privileges to do so? If not, you may want to reconsider your position. Not much use being an admin with such limited power.

 

[Flop]

From what I've heard, the performance of 7 is better than that of Vista. Does anybody knows how 7 performs compared to XP, though?

I'm still using XP, and I'm not really sure if upgrading is worth it, if I'm going to take a performance hit. To be honest, I'm not really sure why I'd want to upgrade at all, since XP works fine for me.

edit: I don't suppose anybody knows if the Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 joystick is compatible with Windows 7?

 

[TheWesDude]

you do take a performance hit going from XP to W7, but W7 offers a lot supposedly.


i havent heard anything about how customizeable the installations are for W7, anyone want to comment? i heard that if you went with bare bones install you could get under 100 meg install sizes.

 

[Phil the Nuka-Cola Dude]

I'll grab a copy sometime next week. I'm not too pleased with how they handled this thing (releasing it as a separate OS instead of just fixing Vista); but I can't turn down a faster OS with a pretty ui.

 

[Bofast]

you do take a performance hit going from XP to W7, but W7 offers a lot supposedly.


i havent heard anything about how customizeable the installations are for W7, anyone want to comment? i heard that if you went with bare bones install you could get under 100 meg install sizes.

If I recall correctly (it's been a while since I installed it), there isn't really much you can choose in the actual installation, it's as lacking in choice as every version of Windows since after 98SE or so.
I think some guy on the vLite forums managed to use vLite on his Win7 disc to make a Win7 installation which used around 128 MBs of RAM, but I think it still used a whole bunch of HDD space. It was also extremely barebone with a lot of functionality removed, installed on an old PentiumIII laptop with 256 MBs of RAM. I wouldn't recommend that kind of trimming for any fairly new computer, at least not until vLite is updated with real support for Win7.

My laptop's installation (which I'm writing this from) takes up somewhere around 11 GBs of HDD space and uses ~650 MBs of RAM with Spotify, 2 Firefox tabs and Avira Antivirus (free version). This is with a non-vLited installation, though I've shut a number of services down, based on the recommendations from the Black Viper website and my personal needs.

I would have run XP on my laptop if it hadn't been for the fact that installing graphics drivers gives a completely black screen around login time, making it pretty useless for games and stuff.
Win7 works pretty well for the most part once a lot of the useless graphical fluff has been deactivated. I (as some kind of semi-minimalist) personally find it bad taste to have large borders and shadows and semi-transparent parts of the windows that waste screen space without adding any practical benefit (if anyone knows some way in which this whole Aero debacle is beneficial from a practical point of view, please correct me).
Win7 has some new functionality compared to XP, but also lacks some things XP had, and in my opinion it's more of a pain to configure/maintain. Still, a bit better (and faster) than Vista in some ways (possibly a bit worse in some other ways, too), and it has pretty good driver support for all the hardware I've seen it being used on.

 

[TheWesDude]

bah, that fucking sucks...

that was supposed to be one of the huge things for this OS was it was going to be extremely modular so you could pick and choose what parts you wanted installed.

guess they fucked that up.

 

[the_cpl]

I bought a new computer, installed the Windows 7. I'm not impressed.
I can't find anything, the icons are huge on the desktop, the things I liked in the XP are gone, the programs has the same errors, just like on the XP, plus several programs don't even work. (Like the Fallout 3...), the system can't handle 3 HDDs + 1 DVD burner, just 2 HDDs+the DVD burner, or only the 3 HDDs. The DVD burner acting strange, the Win7 can't handle it, sometimes. And why they changed the ctrl+alt+del to ctrl+shift+esc?

 

[Arr0nax]

bah, that fucking sucks...

that was supposed to be one of the huge things for this OS was it was going to be extremely modular so you could pick and choose what parts you wanted installed.

guess they fucked that up.

They fucked that up but it seems you can get the modularity you want by yourself using VLite which seems to work for Windows 7 if you're carefull when removing components.

http://windows7news.com/2008/11/14/windows-7-lite/