7 now, XP then, 3.0, back in the day. 
Right now, though, I'm on iOS 7, wondering how long the desktop OS has to live...
Right now, though, I'm on iOS 7, wondering how long the desktop OS has to live...
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| Poll: Which windows OS do you like? This poll is closed. |
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| windows XP | 3 | 11.11% | |
| windows visat | 0 | 0% | |
| windows 7 | 17 | 62.96% | |
| windows 8 | 0 | 0% | |
| windows 8.1 | 1 | 3.70% | |
| None | 6 | 22.22% | |
| Total | 27 vote(s) | 100% | |
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Which windows OS do you like?
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None. They are all overpriced and buggy as hell, not to mention they have numerous security flaws that Microsoft refuse to fix.
The only thing they have going for them is their support for gaming (which isn't due to Microsoft). That's all going to change when SteamOS (Linux based gaming system developed by Valve) is released. 
I don't like any Windows OS, I use Chrome OS at home.
 I found NT4 and Windows 2000 to be the height of Microsoft oses. It's all been just minor changes since then. If we're talking windowed operating systems in general, I'm a Solaris junkie. I know its faults, so don't try to be helpful by pointing them out. I ran Solaris 10 for a number of years and loved it. I'll probably use OpenSolaris as my unix on the workstation that I'm building. It has a lot of glitches, but Android for portable devices is very nice. ![[Image: extraordinarywoo-sig.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/zf86M5L7/extraordinarywoo-sig.jpg) 
Lemonvariable72
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Tiberius is right the only thing I use windows for is gaming. Anything else you can do on Linux, faster and more securely. I'm a mint user myself
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. (December 21, 2013 at 1:31 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: Tiberius is right the only thing I use windows for is gaming. Anything else you can do on Linux, faster and more securely. I'm a mint user myself ![[Image: fanbois.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=dl.dropboxusercontent.com%2Fu%2F52566856%2FAFO%2F0012%2Ffanbois.jpg) 
I have Windows 7 on my desktop PC and upgraded to Windows 8 on my laptop so I could work with it, since I'll need to support users at work at some point. I liked XP, it was the first real merge of the Windows 9x interface with the WinNT kernel, so it provided the better parts of either (along with some of the worst, but this is Windows after all). Vista was a mistake mostly because they didn't bother to remove the bloat from it, so you could get a decent user experience if you had enough power to run it smoothly. But even if you did, you wondered why you'd want to run it if WinXP wasn't as much of a resource hog.
Windows 7 is okay, and there are a couple of touches I like in Windows 8 (the task manager, the copy/move dialog). But the removal of the Start Menu in Windows 8 is just stupid. And no, don't tell me that I need to learn how to use Windows 8. I'm not the problem, I'll learn it just fine. But I've got ~140 users who have trouble figuring out how to turn on a PC, and will be paralyzed by the loss of something as simple and functional as the Start Menu. It's why I selected "none" in the poll. I get cranky thinking about a change like this, that will cause me endless headaches just because Microsoft decided to remove an option that is still in the OS. Shitheads.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould  (December 21, 2013 at 3:23 pm)Tonus Wrote: I have Windows 7 on my desktop PC and upgraded to Windows 8 on my laptop so I could work with it, since I'll need to support users at work at some point. I liked XP, it was the first real merge of the Windows 9x interface with the WinNT kernel, so it provided the better parts of either (along with some of the worst, but this is Windows after all). Vista was a mistake mostly because they didn't bother to remove the bloat from it, so you could get a decent user experience if you had enough power to run it smoothly. But even if you did, you wondered why you'd want to run it if WinXP wasn't as much of a resource hog. If I'm not mistaken (and I might be because I haven't installed 8.1).. 8.1 addresses this. Pretty sure 8.1 has a start menu. But overall, I'd still rather be without the touchscreen-ish apps
8.1 adds a button that takes you to the start screen with all of the tiles. I am very suspicious that they added it in order to disable the many utilities that provide a start button that allows access to the actual start menu (folders and files, etc).
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould 
My office is upgrading to Windows 8.1 over our Christmas break and it'll be the first time I've used any other OS besides Windows XP (which is on my current work computer, my home desktop and my netbook) or whatever iOS is installed on my sister's Mac (which is mostly what I use at home since my netbook is so small and powerless and my desktop is now... 9 years old and I haven't even turned it on in two years).
Needless to say I have no idea what to expect aside from the 3 minutes of farting around on the display computers at Bestbuy when I'm in there twice a year. It'll certainly be a learning experience.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
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