Windows 7 is exactly what Windows Vista should have been.No, tried Vista and had issues, lots of issues. I hear Win 7 is very good, but my motherboard is too old now really and some things have to be disabled in Bios even using Vista because they are not supported. Such as Serial and Midi Port. But Vista kept giving me Blue screen of death and it lasted about 2 days before I dropped it like a lead weight putting XP back on. Seemed nice at first, but it made hard work of everything compared to XP for me.
Too much eye candy and not enough user friendliness using it. Suspect I'd feel the same way about Win 7
Yikes! At its time it was the most powerhouse you could find, but it was one of those early "Microsoft designed" hardware which was customed to Windows XP (and XP only).
While I love trying to get people to convert away from Microsoft... In your case, Windows XP maybe the best for you on that PCExactly, at the time I built it XP was the latest O/S and was built to be an ultimate gaming machine, I even use the matching Corsair memory specifically designed for the motherboard.
To me Win 7 is good enough, nothing more. Things are still a pain, and you still don't have a proper way to stop the reboot nagging after every update (at least you can shut it up 4 hours at a time). Some of the reasons I prefer Linux is:May I ask why people would switch away from windows? (I find win7) prity damn good bettering winxp.
What are the benefits of switching? Or is this another case of "I'm using linux because it makes me look cool" much like when you see those buying apple products because of that awesomeness badge on the back. *waits, pauses and runs from the apple brigade* Seriously though, what are the benfits of a linux over win7 OS?
I can only guess that this was due to load cycles on your disc, I know this was a problem a few years back, though I thought that was solved now. I usually use smartmontools to monitor my discs on laptops, though I haven't had Linux on a laptop for a couple of years now..I attempted to switch away from windows about 6 months ago, I formatted the laptop and did a clean install of whatever the latest LTS was at the time. I suffered terrible problems with the laptop grinding and stuttering, tried all sorts of fixes then eventually put w7 back on. I'm in the process of building a new HTPC, when it's finished I'll give Ubuntu one more go.
SSD support was a priority a while back. I believe 12.04 has improved that support. With this said, I would assume TRIM support was included in that.Do you know if the kernal supports TRIM in SSDs yet? It didn't 2 years ago when I built my last system.
But at home, the only way I could give up on using Windows on my desktop would be if the new Adobe cloud works out and runs well in linux.
It is effective, but when your workflow is memorized and you know the functions backwards and forwards along with the shortcut keys it's nice to have old familiar when I need to use it. And honestly it doesn't bother me to be running linux, windows and Mac OS, keeps my IT support skills up to date.GIMP is free and is an effective Photoshop clone.
Screenies if you get the chance. If you haven't already tried Print Screen then you'll be pleasantly surprised.Moved to ubuntu after seeing this thread. It's great!
It is lovely! Are you on a desktop or a lappy?Here's some shots. I didn't find print screen so I used Ksnapshot.
Folders
Inkscape - vector graphics editor
Desktop
Ubuntu cloud storage
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