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wyliecoyoteuk · Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 8:51 pm Post subject:

Well, Windows 7 Ultimate is the first OS, Windows, Linux or BSD, ever to fail with my KVM!
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heiowge · Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 8:53 pm Post subject:

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heiowge · Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 1:30 pm Post subject:

My trial of win7 came to an end. Tried to do something in windows that is easy in XP and Ubuntu and found I couldn't do it in win7 - burn a music CD. My copy of nero wasn't compatible. I don't have drive space for the XP that you can use here (15Gb I hear!) and I can't afford to update.

You can use windows to burn them (media centre if I remember correctly), but it wouldn't even look at files that were stored in locations other than the preset music folder.

So after about 10 days trial run, I went back to Ubuntu and only once gone back in the last 2 weeks. I didn't miss it. The damn thing crashed 3 times in 5 minutes. Probably having a tantrum that I'd neglected it. Laughing

Ram · Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 5:13 pm Post subject:

Am sure Nero would run in XP compatibility mode. Basically it's a virtual XP machine.
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wyliecoyoteuk · Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:25 pm Post subject:

Really, why bother?
I have not used , or needed windows OS at home for the last 3 years.
Linux runs on all of my hardware, does everything that I need, on all 4 of my PCs, media server, Kitchen PC, wife's PC, main box.

I use windows at work (I support Windows for our customers, it is my job) I also use it on my test rig for writing reviews and articles, but for nothing else. I even use Linux at work, on 4 servers and 4 workstations, for various tasks, in a mixed Linux/Windows/Mac environment of about 40 computers.
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heiowge · Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:37 pm Post subject:

LeeNukes · Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 10:14 am Post subject:

Ram · Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:22 am Post subject:

jamie_tickner · Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 2:00 pm Post subject:

After 30mins of windows 7 I exited vmware! I did not like it at all, visually it looked dated and it seemed to run laggy when virtualised even when I gave it 2 out of my 4 cores and 3gig of ram

heiowge · Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 11:10 am Post subject:

Another nail in 7's coffin.

I have an AOL email account (one of 9 different email accounts). In the last few days, whenever I access it from win7, it tries to login and hangs. After about 5 mins, it offers me a chance to use a simpler version. When it loads I get a popup error message. Closing it pops up a second, then again a third. After that you can look at your inbox (same 3 popups again), delete any bad messages (popups every time), view a message (popups), look at spam (again, more error popups).

I view AOL in Firefox in win7, it does this. I view it with Ubuntu, and it loads straight away. No hanging, no popups.

LeeNukes · Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 9:41 pm Post subject:

heiowge · Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 10:44 pm Post subject:

Adblock on both. Noscript on neither. I'd just stay in Linux, but I've been splicing MOV files and I only know how to do that in Quicktime Pro.

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I can't remember ... Is it even numbered service packs that should be avoided or odd numbered ones? Wink

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