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[2014-8-09. : 3:56 pm]  Moose -- I had a friend who had a Vista laptop around the time Vista came out, though. He wasn't a computer guy, so I felt bad for him when shit started going wrong and I had to keep fixing things. So that left a bad taste in my mouth for the OS. [2014-8-09. : 3:51 pm] Moose -- So after 10+ years of Win XP, I'm pretty attached to it. Note my near-total lack of objectivity when defending it.  [2014-8-09. : 3:49 pm] BloodyZombie117 -- That's the same reason I switched... That's why I said among. [2014-8-09. : 3:47 pm]  Roy -- I was one of the last to upgrade my laptop from Vista to 7. Some machines just ran better with the former. [2014-8-09. : 3:46 pm] Roy -- My school laptop had Vista SP2 on it, and everyone started upgrading to 7 because "it's so much better than Vista!" And then they all ran into driver issues and certain functions on the laptop weren't working correctly. It was the same shit as Vista went through, but since 7 had a good reputation, nobody complained about it. [2014-8-09. : 3:46 pm] BloodyZombie117 -- Still though, playing Starcraft without changing settings will always make XP number one in my book. [2014-8-09. : 3:45 pm] BloodyZombie117 -- No wonder I didn't know about it. My dad's the first to get new OS's. [2014-8-09. : 3:45 pm] Moose -- IIRC, 7 was based on Vista, so they made 7 and was like "uh, let's put this shit on Vista so it stops being a pile of poop" [2014-8-09. : 3:43 pm] Roy -- XP was better than Vista. Much better, in fact. But it's no longer better than Vista. [2014-8-09. : 3:40 pm] BloodyZombie117 -- My dad had Vista. I hated the thing. It fucked up Starcraft, (Windows 7 did too) [2014-8-09. : 3:38 pm]  Dem0n -- I didn't mind XP, but I do have to say that Windows 7 is definitely the best one yet. [2014-8-09. : 3:38 pm] Roy -- But Microsoft always drops support for their older products. Especially once they've been proven to be completely broken. [2014-8-09. : 3:38 pm] BloodyZombie117 -- XP is better than Vista... That's mainly my reason. Plus, I used it for 8+ years and never had a problem. (Switched to Win7 x64 in 2013) [2014-8-09. : 3:37 pm] Moose -- Hey, Win XP is best windows ever. Microsoft had to purposely drop support because they knew people wouldn't switch since Microsoft knew they couldn't do better. [2014-8-09. : 3:36 pm] BloodyZombie117 -- Luckily my dad works with computers and I can get any OS disc he has. If people's computers are scrapped, then I get a CD-Key for it too. xD [2014-8-09. : 3:36 pm] Dem0n -- I mean, I'm not actually going to get some out-dated laptop. I'll just buy a new one off of Newegg for $300. [2014-8-09. : 3:35 pm] BloodyZombie117 -- I've tried Windows 8 for over a year. (My friend has it on his laptop) It just doesn't have the same feel I come to expect from Windows... XP and 7 are the ones I love. [2014-8-09. : 3:35 pm] Moose -- Yeah, I just mentioned Lubuntu because it's super lightweight and aimed at older hardware and laptops [2014-8-09. : 3:34 pm] Dem0n -- I once tried installing Linux onto a computer. I had no clue what I was doing. [2014-8-09. : 3:34 pm] Moose -- Dem0n, if you get an el cheapo craptop and you don't need microsoft programs specifically (ones you can't run under WINE), throw Lubuntu on there. [2014-8-09. : 3:33 pm] Dem0n -- My school offers all version of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 for free lel. [2014-8-09. : 3:33 pm] Roy -- Most of the hate for 8/8.1 is from people that have either not used it or used it for less than, say, a week. [2014-8-09. : 3:32 pm] Roy -- Classic Shell is basically all you need to turn it into 7. Although you sometimes run into metro apps, which is annoying when you have a dual-monitor setup. [2014-8-09. : 3:32 pm] Dem0n -- If I get an el cheapo craptop, I am throwing W7 on there immediately. Fuck W8. [2014-8-09. : 3:31 pm] Moose -- Honestly, I hear Win 8.1 isn't that bad and that there's themes you can install to just make it very 7-ish anyway. So it looks mostly like 7, with all the benefits of 8, it's pretty good [2014-8-09. : 3:30 pm] Moose -- http://www.tomsguide.com/us/win8-speed-performance,review-1760.html It's from 2012, but it has a lot of Win7 comparisons [2014-8-09. : 3:30 pm] BloodyZombie117 -- Also... Damn. I wonder who still has/uses a '95 or older computer. xD [2014-8-09. : 3:29 pm] BloodyZombie117 -- How about Windows 7? I don't want to ever use 8. I'll just wait for 9 to come out. [2014-8-09. : 3:28 pm] Moose -- "Partly that’s because instead of shutting down services and drivers when you turn off your PC, Windows 8 saves a copy of the current state of services and devices to disk; like hibernating your PC but without saving the details of applications and open files. Reading that copy and reinitializing the drivers is faster than loading it all from scratch, and if you have a processor with more than one core Windows uses all of them to boot with, not just one." [2014-8-09. : 3:25 pm] BloodyZombie117 -- What about the '95 computer... Where would I get one of them? Because I don't know anyone who has a computer of that age. [2014-8-09. : 3:25 pm] Moose -- I have to admit I've wondered what would happen if I were able to put Windows 95 on here and have the hardware be compatible. [2014-8-09. : 3:23 pm] BloodyZombie117 -- I now want to get one of them and find a way to get an SSD to connect to IDE ports. See how fast a '95 computer can run with that thing. [2014-8-09. : 3:22 pm] Roy -- I wonder if they offloaded a lot of the work for the OS to improve "boot-to-desktop" benchmarks. [2014-8-09. : 3:20 pm] Moose -- Haha, yes. And it might give you the half hourglass half pointer cursor but you knew it was only pretending you would be able to do something. [2014-8-09. : 3:19 pm] Roy -- The worst part was when you'd hit the desktop, but you'd know you couldn't do anything for another 2 minutes or so because the computer was cranking on something in the background. [2014-8-09. : 3:19 pm] BloodyZombie117 -- But I do know for a fact the computer was slow. Lagged a lot. [2014-8-09. : 3:18 pm] BloodyZombie117 -- I might be exaggerating... I don't remember a whole lot of things 10+ years ago. It could've been the real thing, or it could've been exaggerated... Truth is, I don't really know for sure. [2014-8-09. : 3:18 pm] Roy -- Mine probably took a solid four minutes to boot, which was just terrible. [2014-8-09. : 3:17 pm] Roy -- I don't believe there was hardware in existence that couldn't boot Windows 95 or earlier in less than fifteen minutes, excluding hardware that wasn't compatible with the OS. You seem to be exaggerating. Unless your computer was heavily infected with malware and the startup folder was filled with virus programs initializing in the background, it probably only took like 5-8 minutes and it just seemed like forever because computers nowadays boot up in under a minute. [2014-8-09. : 3:16 pm] BloodyZombie117 -- Plus, my sister and brother could've downloaded things onto it too... That usually slows everything down. |
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