why so sad

I guess you don't know Gloria Gaynor. :P

nope

ah I know this tune

are you a linux guy?

No way. I have never been able to get into it. As soon as it breaks I run for the nice warm comfort of an MS product.

same

as long as you aint a mac fan im fine :)

That doesn't mean I don't want to be a Linux guy. I've just never had the need to learn.

im the same

ive tried it and it was so awkward to use

and my hardware wasnt supported

Im not a fan of modern windows though

I like the older ones better

But... then your hardware is still not really supported. D:

thats one problem

but thats really down to the vendors

ont the OS

:P

if the HW is supported they run fast though

anything prior to vista im fine with except for some lesser known ones

@allquixotic superuser.com/questions/936995/…

@snipe Nup. Modern Windows (really, 7+) is going to be faster than older on a modern machine.

Whether older runs fast enough is subjective, but modern ones will run faster.

nope, DOS from ROM could boot up in like a second

@snipe Bootup time has nothing to do with OS efficiency.

And DOS would be terribly slow with any device access.

yeah

and networking

The primary advantage (IMO) 7 has over Vista is that they got rid of the big kernel dispatcher lock.

7 is ok so far

it has had a few problems though

I don't know when Windows moved to two-level interrupt handling, but that would've improved device I/O a lot.

one time it did not boot up for a week and sort of decided to a week later

Oh, looks like it might've been with NT/2000: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_Procedure_Call

could have been the hardware but I doubt it

@snipe Hm... usually startup problems are driver-related.

Or hardware-caused corruption.

I cannot get used to windows 7's terrible UI

It's true that modern OSes are more complex.

But that does not automatically mean worse.

(Linux is complex. Hurd, as a microkernel, tries not to be... but it's still not usable yet so who knows.)

I cannot seem to find mouse properties in control panel and I hate the new window toolbars how everything is crammed together in some tiny icons

@snipe That's entirely subjective. I heavily prefer 7 over XP UI-wise.

The start menu search did wonders for my efficiency.

windows 7 looks like a badly designed web page that a kid would design

something from yahoo geocities maybe

Once you get used to the workflow, it's a lot faster.

@snipe Funny you should say that. XP has been called a "Fisher-Price UI"

it has the same layout as windows has practically always had

@snipe The tiny icons is actually something 8 tried to change, funnily enough :P

I dont know why they changed it when it worked perfectly fine for like 20 odd years

@snipe Because, honestly, the old Windows UI wasn't great for tablets and touchscreens.

They made the mistake of forcing the change on desktop users too.

That was a bad move.

But the new UI is an advantage in an increasingly-common scenario.

IMO would've been better if they provided the option to choose (as 10 will apparently do).

I cannot find 'copy to' in the mspaint on win7

that was a useful feature

everything in the new MS office is inside of one big button

@snipe You mean like WORD.EXE?

@snipe Ya, paint was dumbed down quite a bit. It did get transparency support in the process, though :P

options, customisation, that solves every need/desire

@snipe Eh... 2007 sucked. 2010 is actually somewhat intuitive (admittedly I still spend a bit of time looking for things). probably easier for first-time users to learn. 2013, I dunno

theres like an office icon on the left top of the window

usually buttons are not that big so I assumed it didnt do anything and spent ages looking for file, edit, etc

@snipe You can display the ribbon bar at all times.

thats only for certain apps

I think all of Office allows that.

brb heading to work

ok

OK Ill need to make a service from an existing program (lidlock.exe)

error 1053 - the service did not respond to the start or control request in a timley fashion

I'd rather have a service than a startup item

brb

nah

nm nm nm