Windows 7 put to the test

killadoob said:
Aqua you should try running it as your main OS and spend a lot of time on it man, my first impression was that it is not all that good but i forced myself to use it as my main OS and man o man i love it now.

I love the taskbar, omg all the windows sit in one block, i can now dock it which is awesome. The speed of my windows 7 is mind blowing, booting up used to be a drag but now i boot up and by the time i have switched the kettle on its booted :)

Stickies are awesome, putting 2 windows side by simply dragging is amazing. This is the finest OS on the market by a mile i think. I have never been this impressed by a windows OS.
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No doubt, windows 7 has some great features....but I spoke to soon...

Using the brute-force method of getting the soundcard working gave me a BSOD now it's in a BSOD loop, won't start... oh well I won't blame windows for it all though, CMedia who develop the drivers for asus made crappy drivers for vista which make 7/vista unstable. But honestly this BSOD is lame, ubuntu supported my card from the Heron days already, you'd think a Xonar which is popular would be supported by microsoft already.

Anyway back to Kubuntu, I'll try and reinstall 7 in a few minutes time or tomorrow.

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OK gave it a clean install, sorted out the soundcard.
 
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killadoob said:
Just remember microsoft develop operating systems not drivers.
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But they can bundle certified versions and do have their own versions of drivers.

Anyway that sealed the deal for me, I'm not paying for windows... If forcing the installation of a sounddriver that conflicts with the current driver can cause the entire OS to go belly up I don't want it.

FFS with Linux I can install/uninstall the nvidia Graphics driver without restarting and if I install the wrong driver the OS does not crash I'm just presented with the terminal to try a different driver.

My conclusion on Windows 7 after testing....

puts on sunglasses

... lipstick on a pig.
 
64bit ofcourse !!! :p I run it on all of my AMD machines and one Core2 machine. Seems the older intels lag behind AMD in terms of 64bit support.
 
Rouxenator said:
64bit ofcourse !!! :p I run it on all of my AMD machines and one Core2 machine. Seems the older intels lag behind AMD in terms of 64bit support.
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But is there a performance difference for someone who has less than 4GB RAM? Currently every driver & app I have on my PC works well. I don't want to have to get 64 bit drivers and maybe change some of my apps when there's no immediate benefit.
 
orin76 said:
But is there a performance difference for someone who has less than 4GB RAM? Currently every driver & app I have on my PC works well. I don't want to have to get 64 bit drivers and maybe change some of my apps when there's no immediate benefit.
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Tests so far show that 32 bit can still perform as good as 64bit sometimes better but applications that rely on 64bit architecture outperform 32bit by a mile.

That said I'll go with 64bit... if your system is capable 64bit is future proof, 32bit will eventually be phased and not be optimized for.
 
Well based on my 32 bit and 64 bit experience, 64 bit runs faster than 32 bit on the same hardware, 2gb or 4gb 64 bit just feels faster.

Go 64 bit because you don't infected with virus's as easily either.
 
@Rouxenator & Aqua lung

Thanks for the replies. I'll try get both 32 bit and 64 bit (I love uncapped connections) and compare their performance.

Edit: and thanks to you too killa :)
 
Running 7 in virtualbox shows that Windows has shaved of all the vista bloat(bacon yum). Performs almost as good as XP, Vista was a nightmare to run in Virtualbox... was dead slow.
 
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