I never thought I would say this, but Windows 7 is much better than OS X.

[HopeHoops]

I OWN a Mac Mini with OS X, so I can claim this. M$ stole enough of the good parts from OS X to make Win 7 good, but it is actually better. It is faster, cleaner, and easier to find things in. I'm typing this on a Vista box (which is NOT even CLOSE to OS X). Somebody must have gone through the rows upon rows of cubicles and whapped the developers over the head with a "make some fucking sense out of shit" hammer. M$ actually did something right, well, at least this once. Although NT 4.0 SP 4 wasn't bad. You could actually get 6 months of uptime from that, which is great for a M$ box.

This isn't intended as flame bait. I REALLY never thought I would say something like this about a M$ OS. For the record, I started with an Apple II, and moved on to a C=64 and later an Amiga. I worked with the very first (and pre-M$) PC when it came out and every version of DOS/Win since. CP/M was the model for DOS, but it was much more powerful (and I worked with that too - including the Osborne). PC's sucked moose cock until Win 98 SE came out - and even that was many years behind the Amiga - as was the Mac. The Atari ST was the closest thing to an Amiga, but not as powerful. M$ didn't catch up until at least XP (and I'm being generous with that one). So yeah, I'm a M$ critic - but Win 7 is slick.

Caveat: this is a new machine I recently bought. I have no idea what an upgrade from Vista would do to a machine, but I'm not willing to risk it, given my history with M$ upgrades.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear HopeHoops!

I too love Windows 7!

My husband bought me a brand new one last year, and I'm having a ball. It's easier, more elegant, and all that...

I'm not a really knowledgeable person with computers, but I know when something's working well, and this is.

:hi:

[HopeHoops]

6. Yeah, it is really embarrassing to admit it, but it is good.

Of course, the 27" wide screen monitor I got with it doesn't hurt any.

[TheMightyFavog]

2. Bought a laptop running Windows 7 In March.

I like it. It's a nice enough OS.

[Call Me Wesley]

3. So the 'Preferences' for any Windows program are now

under its name? :woohoo:

;)

Enjoy your machine. (This is not snark, I've worked on Windows for several years. Both systems have their ups and downs.)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

4. That's slightly believable, but only slightly. I'll stay with Linux, thank you.

The security of the Mac + the cheapness and openness of the PC.

Can't beat that. Unless you're a gamer, in which case using Windows is actually forgivable.

That will be all. Have a nice day.

[HopeHoops]

8. I've used a shitload of Unix and Linux machines over the years.

The KDE desktop is STILL the best of show, in my opinion. I liked DEC's X-Windows system, and Sun has always had a great environment. I've got a few re-purposed PC's running Linux in the house. One is a dual boot 95/Debian system. At the moment it is in the basement and not connected. Still, as far as M$ is concerned, this beats the shit out of anything they've done before.

[hobbit709]

5. Doncha know you're committing heresy?

[HopeHoops]

9. Yeah, yeah, I know. Still, credit should be given when it is due.

I've got a 27" with a huge jellyfish as the background at the moment. :evilgrin:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. I like it. But then I found Rainmeter.

And I'm having a lot of fun with that.

[HopeHoops]

10. Rainmeter?

:shrug:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

11. Let's you customize your desktop with all sorts of useful skins.

[HopeHoops]

12. Okay, I like that one. I didn't see it in the list.

Is it available for download somewhere? Also, is it Aero compatible?

[blogslut]

13. Rainmeter is fun

I used it for a while but being that I still have a smallish monitor, and I always have a window open, all I really needed was a taskbar that wasn't ugly, so I got RocketDock:



I have a "docklet" installed that will "fan" folders and I don't really need a weather thingy because I have a Firefox Addon for that.

:hi:

Geek confession, I'm running Windows 2000 on this particular machine.