ihmal said:
David wrote on 03/14/2009 17:28 ET :
Having just bought a brand new "Windows 7" computer (Asus X5dc) that runs
like
a "286" if anyone is old enough to remember one of them,
I put a spare drive in the machine and did a fresh install of XP Pro and
lo and
behold it was transformed into a fast and useable machine.
I did the same a few years ago when i had the severe misfortune to buy a
Fujitsu laptop with that pathetic joke of an operating system on it, You
know
the one, yep i do mean VISTA, so my opinion of windows 7 is that it is
just a
tarted up version of vista with as many security issues as a prison
without
walls or fences.
Does anyone remember all the people that bought windows ME, and how bad it
was,
XP is the only thing that microsoft have got right in the last 20 years
and they
are dumping it for more rubbish that will be just as bad a rip-off as ME,
Vista
and next on the list Win 7.
I dual boot all my computers and laptops with Xp pro and Linux Mint 9, and
never have any problems and also think Linux is a far superior op sys to
just
about anything microsoft have used to con money out of people.
I remember 286's. I had a 12MHz one way back when. Added a math co-processor
and it was a decent machine for its time.
If your new machine came pre-loaded with 7 and ran as badly as you say, you
should have brought it back to where you bought it for a refund or exchange.
There's obviously something screwed up there somewhere.
I installed the retail version of ME when it was first released (pre-ordered
a copy, just like I did with Windows 7), and never looked back. I found it
to be the most stable and solid OS I had used up to that time. IIRC, I
installed it on an older AMD K-6 machine and had no problems with drivers,
hardware, software, or anything. I couldn't believe the stories that were
circulating on the net about BSOD's, hardware and driver issues, etc. Mine
was solid and fast. Bought a new MB, installed it, booted up, and had to
install a few new drivers for it, but it still ran initially without the MB
drivers loaded. Not fast, but it booted. After the MB drivers were
installed, it was like a brand new PC.
Then along came XP. I heard all the horror stories from a couple guys at
work that installed ("XP stands for Xtra Painful," etc.) and shied away from
an early installation. Finally I bit the bullet and did install it, ran it
for about a month, and had so many problems with it with no solutions that I
could find that I rolled it back to ME. Happy once again. After reading even
more about it, I decided to go for it again. By this time there were more MB
drivers released for XP. I installed it and them, and haven't had a problem
with it since. I'm still running it on my desktop PC. My notebook I upgraded
from Vista to Windows 7, and am equally happy with that. Sooner or later,
I'll probably upgrade my desktop to Win7 also. I'm just in no hurry to go
through the reinstallations that I'll need to do. I may pick up a copy of
Vista and go that route to get to Win7; I just haven't made up my mind.
I don't have much experience with Linux other than when we used to have a
Banyan network, and then much later when we used Linux for our remote
desktops. But really, all we were doing was running Windows on top, so there
wasn't much real Linux interaction.
I think almost everyone has different experiences with new operating systems
as they are released, some good, some not so good, and some really bad. I
can't put down any particular one because of a single bad experience if I
never go back and try again. The ones who have tried Linux and proclaim it
terrible and unusable are no worse than the ones who tried Windows once and
proclaim it terrible and unusable, and vice-versa. I had one Chevy in my
life and didn't like it (for various reasons), but that doesn't mean that
all Chevy's suck, although I wouldn't buy another unless it was a great
deal. JMHAWO. . .
