Dusalis Drake wrote:I must say that you are quite brave to be using Windows 7, and I wish you the best of luck when the next bug comes up. It'll be at least 12 months from the non-beta release date before I try it. And I still have XP so that won't be a fun change. Formatting is a pain.
Oh dude, try it on a RAID array
. Well, I take that back, that's one of the glorious new features of Win7 for those of us who use RAID or, I guess if anyone still is, SCSI. You used to have to use a floppy drive and disk to load your 3rd party RAID drivers during windows install and it didn't always work and usually there was a regular IDE bus driver AND a raid driver and WHICH ONE do I install first< AHHH!!! *hair on fire generally*This is of course completely precluding the existence of Vista since, with how much negativity I heard about it initially, I just pretended it didn't exist and told myself to wait for the next OS, which I soon came to be called Vista. I think they got tired of all the code names that Vista ran through like Longhorn
. "Windows 7, good, simple." I bet there's some subliminal messaging in the simplicity of it that suggests it's simple and easy to use. For the most part it is.I haven't had any bugs yet either... Dark was saying something about, and I could be misquoting, if you are running Win7 x64 (which I am), and if you have a 32bit program stop responding and you try to kill it from task manager in Win7 it tends to lock up the system completely. I haven't had that happen, but doing a lot of developer things and using a lot of experimental programs, Dark runs into a lot more non-responsive programs than the average person.
I decided, basically, I was going to stay on XP until the last possible moment. I really updated to Windows 7 as a matter of necessity. Technologically, Windows XP just isn't built to use the new generation of hardware. It's 32bit which means it's limited in a lot of ways, namely to addressing about 3 GB of memory (recognizing 4, addressing and using 3), which is a limit that, for high end and gaming users, is completely insufficient. I went with 4 just to be a bit frugal b/c another G. Skill 4 GB kit is $80, but if it dropped to 60 or 50 I would probably grab it and jump to 8 GB.
My only concern with the direction the Microsoft operating system is going is that it's going further and further into a realm where the non-server operating systems are tailored for the computer-illiterate user who you don't want messing with and tweaking configuration settings and critical system files - which means a power user like myself and hardcore gamers, hobbycoders, modders, etc... can't access some of even the most basic configuration ends of Windows anymore. The death of the command prompt in Windows XP Professional was a TRAVESTY, and now my Run is gone!
I think they should add like a developer's module or even just a windows configuration module that doesn't come on a disc image but has to be added from the "Add Windows Components" menu of the Control Panel so that people like me can still access that stuff.
Anyway congrads 
