I've always had a soft spot for XP, since that was the first one I had once I got access to my own pc (before that I was an Amiga guy). Since that gave up the ghost and went to silicon heaven, I've had Vista on our laptop but found it so incredibly unusable, in fact almost an unfinished version of the Windows 7 I now use all the time. It does pretty much everything I want it to do, apart from having an inbuilt stereo mixer option to allow direct recording of pc sound. I miss that.
I was initially put off Windows 8, having heard some horror stories about how user unfriendly it is and how it basically turns your pc into a glorified iphone complete with apps but without the user friendliness. However, having sampled a laptop of someone else who was also W8-sceptic (and in fact told me how lousy it was) I have to say I wouldn't mind running it myself. Still, in the meantime I'll be happy with my W7; and if anyone has any suggestions how to record live pc sounds in the absence of the stereo mixer option, I'll happily listen.
I was initially put off Windows 8, having heard some horror stories about how user unfriendly it is and how it basically turns your pc into a glorified iphone complete with apps but without the user friendliness. However, having sampled a laptop of someone else who was also W8-sceptic (and in fact told me how lousy it was) I have to say I wouldn't mind running it myself. Still, in the meantime I'll be happy with my W7; and if anyone has any suggestions how to record live pc sounds in the absence of the stereo mixer option, I'll happily listen.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
