Upgrade to Windows 7. You can get a copy on newegg for around $99 still for home premium.
April 8, 2014 - The Day Windows XP Dies???
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I'll still be using my XP PC and still wont have any issues.
If and when I decide to upgrade,it'll be windows 7.
If and when I decide to upgrade,it'll be windows 7.
Vista could take a nice machine and turn it into a slow turd.
Goodbye XP. I will not miss you, but will think of you fondly.
Goodbye XP. I will not miss you, but will think of you fondly.
I talked with a member of our IT team 6 months ago - he was not remotely worried about continuing to run XP past Apr 2014 ... and we have >300 PC's here. All new machines are obviously getting Win7 (we completely skipped Vista) but there are still a heap of XP machines in service. I've also seen a few W2K machines, but not sure if they are connected to the network.
Originally Posted By: webfors
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Installing my Brother printer always involved a song and dance of command lines. Browse through a ton of photos with any of the file managers? Horrendously slow.
Picasa in Ubuntu?
Using my cameras in Ubuntu?
Despite fiddling and fracking about with port forwarding et al, Win torrent software was always much faster.
Games?
On and on and on it goes. I gave Ubuntu a good chance and tried to make it work on my machine ... still have it on 3 partitions, but no one in the fam wants to use it.
I do appreciate how fast it starts, the security as well as not needing anti-virus ever. And the Ubuntu servers have been great for backups over SSH. But it's unfortunately not a viable option for me.
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Installing my Brother printer always involved a song and dance of command lines. Browse through a ton of photos with any of the file managers? Horrendously slow.
Picasa in Ubuntu?
Using my cameras in Ubuntu?
Despite fiddling and fracking about with port forwarding et al, Win torrent software was always much faster.
Games?
On and on and on it goes. I gave Ubuntu a good chance and tried to make it work on my machine ... still have it on 3 partitions, but no one in the fam wants to use it.
I do appreciate how fast it starts, the security as well as not needing anti-virus ever. And the Ubuntu servers have been great for backups over SSH. But it's unfortunately not a viable option for me.
My HP printer install went much smoother in Ubuntu than the HP at the office did in Windows, I'll tell you that much.
Linux still isn't ready for the average user, and it's been decades. It probably never will be.
[censored] I've been involved with enterprise-leel tech for 10 years now, and I won't bother with Linux anymore. Ain't nobody got time for that.
[censored] I've been involved with enterprise-leel tech for 10 years now, and I won't bother with Linux anymore. Ain't nobody got time for that.
I have no time for Windows. I find with Windows, there's a lot more stuff breaking with "updates" or updates changing stupid settings or trying to install other nonsense. For my purposes, Linux runs absolutely perfectly for what I want to do, and I have exactly the software I want without any extra garbage.
I haven't owned a Windows box for over ten years, and won't bother with it, either.
I haven't owned a Windows box for over ten years, and won't bother with it, either.
Originally Posted By: Garak
I have no time for Windows. I find with Windows, there's a lot more stuff breaking with "updates" or updates changing stupid settings or trying to install other nonsense. For my purposes, Linux runs absolutely perfectly for what I want to do, and I have exactly the software I want without any extra garbage.
I haven't owned a Windows box for over ten years, and won't bother with it, either.
I think a lot has changed in 10 years. I have a 4 year old Windows 7 Dell that has been absolutely perfect. I use it 8-10 hours a day and it hasn't missed a beat yet.
I have no time for Windows. I find with Windows, there's a lot more stuff breaking with "updates" or updates changing stupid settings or trying to install other nonsense. For my purposes, Linux runs absolutely perfectly for what I want to do, and I have exactly the software I want without any extra garbage.
I haven't owned a Windows box for over ten years, and won't bother with it, either.
I think a lot has changed in 10 years. I have a 4 year old Windows 7 Dell that has been absolutely perfect. I use it 8-10 hours a day and it hasn't missed a beat yet.
Originally Posted By: dishdude
I think a lot has changed in 10 years. I have a 4 year old Windows 7 Dell that has been absolutely perfect. I use it 8-10 hours a day and it hasn't missed a beat yet.
Agreed. I have a 5-year-old Dell running W7 that gets heavy daily use, and no problems either, other than it's a bit slow by today's standards.
I think a lot has changed in 10 years. I have a 4 year old Windows 7 Dell that has been absolutely perfect. I use it 8-10 hours a day and it hasn't missed a beat yet.
Agreed. I have a 5-year-old Dell running W7 that gets heavy daily use, and no problems either, other than it's a bit slow by today's standards.
Well, at the office, I do have a Windows box for the staff. I will tell you, however, that the HP printer took more work to install than it did on my Linux box at home. It truly was plug and play at home.
Where I get angriest with Windows, aside from security issues, are the haphazard way backups are done and how programs try to compete with each other and for resources on updating. Every time you update Open Office in Windows, it wants to do the smart start or quick start thing or whatever it's called. It doesn't try that in Linux, except upon the first install. Adobe loves to run stuff in the background. So does Quicktime, along with trying to derail every other media player every chance it gets. Even programs that are supposed to help keep the mess down to a minimum (i.e. CCleaner) try to install toolbars. Now, if installing or updating Google Chrome tried to get you to install an old fashioned porn dialer, the circle would be complete.
I still like the overall reliability of Linux for a system that never shuts off. I insisted upon it for my security cameras at one of my businesses. The tech insisted it wasn't possible until I showed him otherwise. They are almost never restarted or shut down, running months at a time. I would not try that with Windows of any sort.
Where I get angriest with Windows, aside from security issues, are the haphazard way backups are done and how programs try to compete with each other and for resources on updating. Every time you update Open Office in Windows, it wants to do the smart start or quick start thing or whatever it's called. It doesn't try that in Linux, except upon the first install. Adobe loves to run stuff in the background. So does Quicktime, along with trying to derail every other media player every chance it gets. Even programs that are supposed to help keep the mess down to a minimum (i.e. CCleaner) try to install toolbars. Now, if installing or updating Google Chrome tried to get you to install an old fashioned porn dialer, the circle would be complete.
I still like the overall reliability of Linux for a system that never shuts off. I insisted upon it for my security cameras at one of my businesses. The tech insisted it wasn't possible until I showed him otherwise. They are almost never restarted or shut down, running months at a time. I would not try that with Windows of any sort.
I liked XP, and I think Windows 7 is a huge step above XP. It has much more functionality and it's as stable or better. Plus, the backup/system imaging functionality is fantastic.
Originally Posted By: Garak
They are almost never restarted or shut down, running months at a time. I would not try that with Windows of any sort.
My HTPC runs on W7 and is almost never restarted or shut down, other than when required by some critical Windows updates. It's been 4 years and counting. This would not have been possible with older Windows systems, but I find W7 very stable.
They are almost never restarted or shut down, running months at a time. I would not try that with Windows of any sort.
My HTPC runs on W7 and is almost never restarted or shut down, other than when required by some critical Windows updates. It's been 4 years and counting. This would not have been possible with older Windows systems, but I find W7 very stable.
That is true. It certainly is more stable than it used to be. Even XP was a step above 98 in that regard. There was nothing like playing games in the day and having to reboot in the middle of a nice stretch. Honestly, for me, that would be about the only use I'd have for Windows these days - games.
@Drew99GT: You'd be shocked how easy it is to back stuff up in Linux. One command on the command line and you're done, and that's with tar, which absolutely everyone has.
@Drew99GT: You'd be shocked how easy it is to back stuff up in Linux. One command on the command line and you're done, and that's with tar, which absolutely everyone has.
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