Last Call for XP

[LashStoat]

Originally Posted by Chernabog

I just hate the fact that games I have installed on my compy (or old favorites) WILL NOT RUN AT ALL on Vista. Gamespot did a feature on that a while back, most games totally bit it in Vista. Sucks. I'll be on XP till my current compy explodes, or until a stable 64-bit OS becomes the norm.

Dear Cherny,

This may or may not help you: I have installed an MS product called Virtual PC that allows you to install any operating system inside a "sandbox". I have successfully run MS-DOS programs from the '80's with it no problemo. You can even share folders with the sandbox and your actual OS for file access.

Love and hugs,

The Stoat XXX.

[Ghoulish Delight]

I guess I'm just pretty adaptable. And yeah, as for being tech savy, it does help that I know how to disable most of the gee-whiz features/over-protective-security-comfirmations in Vista. But to be honest, I feel that way any time I borrow someone's laptop with OSX.

I know Vista's got some big holes, and I'm on the edge of dumping it from the laptop. But I'm actually finding myself very attached to some of the finer points (ginormous thumbnail previews,the start search box.

And at least it's stable (not that XP wasn't).

Hell, everyone should just take a moment and be thankful it's not ME.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

And yeah, as for being tech savy, it does help that I know how to disable most of the gee-whiz features/over-protective-security-comfirmations in Vista.

Yeah, that makes a big difference. I can't remember what the one thing that our rent-an-IT-guy told me to disable, but it made a WORLD of difference.

Originally Posted by JWBear

(And talk about a cult.... Mac-Heads are nothing compared to O/S2 fanatics!)

I'll give you that!



At the risk of getting bashed, I have to say that I have been extremely pleased with the Mac operating system over the years. And the current version IS a very stable 64-bit OS.

[BarTopDancer]

Besides my roommates computer (that I didn't do much other than use the internet with) my only experience with it was trying to get BEs machine to run faster. It's a pretty OS, but I still prefer XP. Maybe if I had a chance to customize and remove the babysitting features I'd feel different.

My next machine will be a Mac.

[Kevy Baby]

I stumbled on this photo:

[Ghoulish Delight]

Oh, I'm a Mac guy in the diaspora. I still feel deeply connected to Macs, and I'm a little bummed that we made the decision to invest back into the Windows world at a point where we could have pretty easily made the switch. But I realized the responsible thing to do was to invest in an actual backup solution and the simple fact was that I could get a technically comparable but less aesthetically desirable laptop AND a more than adequate backup option for the same money I would have spent on a single Mac system and adding reliable backup to that would have broken the budget. It was a tough decision, but in the end, as much as I love Mac, I love my data more.

Maybe I'll just try Linux of some stripe on the laptop.

[mousepod]

Sorry for this, but after almost two dozen posts, it's pretty much obligatory:

What's Windows?

[Kevy Baby]

But then you would be stuck with W2K. I think at that point I would rather have Vista.