| Timmah! said:
FYI- I'm comparing this directly to a new install of XP on my HP laptop, still much faster. And I'm an IT Tech, so my 7 year old XP PC was still running just as fast as when I bought it (actually, faster). It runs fast because it's a good OS. |
So much BS, LOL!
I see MS shills have started doing their work. Well, more power to them.
I know this still isn't for me as someone that use his time to reinstall OS on all three of his machines, including old XP:
- have no valuable data or program which he must keep for years,
- doesn't make any valuable work with any valuable program, as it's well known that reinstalling all your programs is a very tedious task in Windows,
- has his OS that do not work well (despite "And I'm an IT Tech", LOL), or he wouldn't go around reinstalling them everytime, especially fresh so that there's no speed decrease,
- supposedly has his 7 year old PC running just as fast as when he bought it (yet he reinstalled it LOL). Even the Windows guru (people that even debug MS software better than MS people) I know can't manage this feat, but you will find plenty of people on the Internet that miraculously manage that. Oh wrong, the guru manages it as long as the OS is never updated, never connected, and never installed anything newer than a selective bunch of programs tested on it for stability.
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Well, I don't really want to derail this thread.
Just to say that the OP appeared like an obvious MS shill (or astroturfer, as he doesn't openly says he's a shill) to me.
For the (douche) record, I'm an IT Tech too (IT architect actually), and I have all these Linux systems all around the house, since 2001, with the main one staying up 24/24 7/7, running 3 desktops simultaneously since 2001, including most of my precious servers (mail, web, ...) with no antivirus slowing everything (as viruses just can't work on Unix like systems like Linux), containing my precious data dating back to 1991, and staying up without crashing, always as fast (actually faster compared to 2001), most of the time running for months without a reboot (until I decide that I should really update to the new kernel, which won't even require a reboot either soon, or when I decided that I should finally use the new glibc I installed), with all my programs still running.
I'm not even talking about my MythTV setup running flawlessly since 2005. All that for free.
So excuse me if I'm not impressed, and if I don't believe one word of what you said in the OP.
I have one Windows XP client in the house though (rarely turned on, rarely used, and even then it manages to rot), I should try this Windows 7 if there's a free version somewhere, so that I can see for myself and finally believe Windows has improved.
I remember the same amazing things were said for every Windows OS since XP, and it was always total BS every single time I tried these Windows OS. Man, to think that some things I needed back in 2000, like several simultaneous desktops for everyone in the house, no virus, no disk defragmenting, are still not available in Windows OS, while I had them since back then on Linux. Seriously.
But I'll try this Windows 7 when I have time, I heard there's a free RC version somewhere that implodes after some time. I hope it installs in multiboot, as I won't kill even my old Windows XP client to install autodestructing software.
