VonPickle
Well-Known Member
I've been running the Alpha for a while now and I am VERY impressed with the overall stability of the OS. I use this everyday as my main PC at work.
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Not unless you use WINE and then it's a hit & miss affair.
Ockie
Resident Lead Bender
So I downloaded and installed this Alpha 3 release....terrible! Keeps coming up with a jockey thingy majig that has crashed and it is not coming up with my Nvidia drivers as it normally does in previous releases. Guess I will just wait for the proper release.
Can 64-bit versions of Windows 7?
Oh and Carnicocal....please do something about the boot up screen! No one likes it when their screen goes into schitzo mode with code running around all over the place while its booting! Dont know if it is a GPU or CPU or VPU or whatever PU driver issue, but it not nice....so please make that pretty too!
I prefer having the code going wild
It's uber geeky!
Ockie
Resident Lead Bender
I prefer having the code going wild
It's uber geeky!
Let me guess...you like watching it boot up pretending you are about to enter The Matrix to save Trinity from Agent Smith? ai ai.
I on the other hand like a nice shiny boot screen.
I believe this was the last one that worked properly for me. I think this was in 2009 or something.
I am Neo.
The current bootscreen is quite pretty, its all purple and stuff - looks quite nice on my netbook!
Ockie
Resident Lead Bender
Mine does not work....well, for the last few versions it has not worked. Just funny commands going all over the show and then it goes to the log in screen. Linux Mint which I am using now actually removed it and just show a black screen untill it gets to your log on screen. I believe the reason for this was quoted as "to make the boot up process look more tidy and professional"
Rouxenator
Dank meme lord
it sure tries
The devil himself has this to say:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384249(v=vs.85).aspx
So Windows 7 64-bit cannot run 32-bit applications "natively" either?
It all depends on how you define "natively" though.If you mean "run on a 32-bit Windows", then neither Windows 7 64-bit or Linux can, both require a layer between the application and the operating system; WOW64 in the case of Windows 7 64-bit and WINE in the case of Linux.
Not that this is a bad thing, a 32-bit Windows application running "natively" on a 32-bit Windows can only access up to 2GB* of memory, shared with all other user-mode applications. Running a 32-bit Windows application on WOW64 or WINE on 64-bit operating systems allows each application up to 3GB of memory, all to itself.
If you mean "execute natively on the CPU", then both Windows 7 64-bit and Linux can, as neither WOW64 or WINE are emulators in the sense that they emulate a different CPU architecture, as Rosetta does on Intel-based Apple Macs to allow you to run older applications compiled for the PowerPC architecture.
By the way, have you tried running Windows 3.1 (16-bit) applications on Windows 7 64-bit?
You can't, Microsoft dropped support for them. You can still run them in WINE though, so you might say WINE is more compatible with Windows than Windows.
*I know there's the /3GB switch you can put in boot.ini to change the user/kernel memory split from 2GB/2GB to 3GB/1GB, but it's not supported, tends to crash, and the 3GB is still shared between all user-mode applications
Windows 8.