Windows Vista not Genuine?

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: VinDSL
I'm not trying to convert one of your followers!

Not my follower. My OS of choice is DESQView. Everything since is bloated garbage, including Linux and Windows.

 

[dguy6789]

Updates are automatic and transparent to me. The only time it would even take 30 minutes for me is on a new install.(Downloading and installing updates doesn't in any way interfere with my use of the computer either, I can do whatever I was doing while it updates) It's a tiny price to pay considering the significant functionality advantage Windows has over Linux. The license issue is obviously exceptionally rare, considering it's never happened to me before and I have several computers.

I turn my computer on, do whatever I want to do, then turn it off when I am done using it. If I was using Linux, I would turn my computer on, not be able to play most (if any) of my games, not be able to use a bunch of my favorite applications, and have to learn how to set up and use an entirely different OS that even when fully understood does way less than Windows does. Stability and security are not advantages either because Vista doesn't crash for me and malware isn't a problem. Maybe if all I did was web browse then Linux would be an option, but until everything I use comes out in a Linux version and Linux offers some kind of incentive to switch over, I don't see a reason to.

 

[VinDSL]

Originally posted by: RebateMonger

Originally posted by: VinDSL
I'm not trying to convert one of your followers!

Not my follower. My OS of choice is DESQView. Everything since is bloated garbage, including Linux and Windows.

I've got a DESQview/QEMM/DR-DOS machine around here somewhere, in my stack of doorstops...

LoL!

I can't remember why I quit using it. Probably a combination of W2K Pro and web addiction.

Beauty is fleeting, isn't it?!?!? :heart:

 

[pcgeek11]

Here's how it goes with Linux:
I can let a Linux machine sit for months, boot it up and start using it.

Um...

I can also let a Windows 98, XP, or Vista Machine sit for months, boot it up and start using it also.

Ummmm? What's the difference here? I'm not a MS Zealot, I use Linux and Windows and enjoy them both for what they do well. Neither is perfect by far. I'm just not seeing a point to your statement quoted above.

pcgeek11

 

[VinDSL]

Originally posted by: pcgeek11
I'm just not seeing a point to your statement quoted above.

Well... let me exemplify the statement.

The last few hours, I've been scaling down and optimizing the default Linux Mint 7 'Shiki-Mint' theme, so it fits my 10" Asus Eee PC display better - disabling animations in the panels and desktop - disabling the logout effects - shading the background colors - turning off sounds in user events - changing the font sizes - changing the icon and button sizes in menus, blah, blah, blah. All the customization stuff you can do with a Linux machine, but not a Windows clunker.

OMG, this is looking gorgeous!!! I think I'm growing wood... :thumbsup:

It's a lot of work, but you know what?!?!? When I tron my Netbook next week, next month, or next year, all my hard work will still in effect. I don't have to worry about hackers, Microsoft timebombs, or my authentication to use Linux going south.

Make more sense now?

Okay, I'm gonna tweak this install some more...

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: VinDSL
I can't remember why I quit using it. Probably a combination of W2K Pro and web addiction.

For many users, DESQview was hurt badly because Windows 386 and 3.x required the Intel 386 "Protected Mode". DESQView ALSO used "Protected Mode". So you couldn't run Windows 386 under DESQView. That forced a choice between the two operating systems.

For most users, DESQview was impractical after 1993. Fortunately, Windows 95 made Windows semi-usable. But no OS has ever since duplicated the speed and ease of use of DESQView. Heck, it supported multiple monitors in 1988. Windows didn't do that until ten years later.

 

[VinDSL]

Originally posted by: RebateMonger
Windows 95 made Windows semi-usable.

Agreed!

I ran Windows 1.0 on my Compaq Portable(s) for a while. What a POS!?!?! Still got a copy in my closet. I preferred Norton Commander, GEM, and proggies like that.

I didn't try Windows again until 3.1, when it was forced on me at work (same as XP now). OMG!!! Do you remember those gawd awful memory leaks??? I had to reboot 3.1 about 10 times a day - no kidding! And, it was totally unsecure. I could get into every machine in the company...

After trying 3.1 at the house for a while, I decided to go with Windows NT. It was older, and more mature - almost like a real OS. I liked NT just fine, but there wasn't much hardware support for it. The only CDROM I owned that NT supported was an ancient single-speed model, that only worked about half the time.

When 95 came out, I became a believer! Those Windows 95 Birthday Parties rocked! I spent the night at Incredible Universe (now a Fry's store) with 1000's of other nerds - each of them hugging a copy (after midnight) and walking around the store like they found a pot of gold. I'm still using 98SE for my proxy server...

Next, it was W2K Pro. I still use it on the majority of my LAN machines. To my way of thinking, W2K Pro is one of the greatest OSs every made! I'll continue using it as long as MS provides (almost) monthly security updates. Dittos for Office 2000!

I (almost) totally avoided XP. I hate XP! I get the gag reflex going every time I use it - like when you eat a piece of rotten fish, or someone has a wet fart on a crowded bus. I dual-boot XP on a couple of my portables, but I don't know why. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say it's because I don't throw anything away - and I hate to waste a perfectly good (OEM) license - even an XP license.

Vista was a shocker for me - I expected to hate it too, just like XP - but I've had a very good experience with it. Actually, I was one of the first guys on Anandtech that had the balls to defend it. As soon as I started taking swings at the Vista-haters, everyone else joined the fight, and together we drove them away - tarred n' feathered! LoL!

7 has been okay, I guess, but it leaves me rather limp-dicked. I'll wait until I get a copy for *free* with a lappy purchase. There's no way I'm spending a cent on it. I don't pay for anything that I can get for free. I tried the betas, and 7 bores me...

Having said all that, I find Linux/BSD constantly new and exciting. There are 100's of versions - and more coming out every day - not just Basic, Home, Fool, Stud, and Corporate Puke, like Windows.

Sooo, don't take what I say the wrong way - some versions of Windows I love - some I hate.

Same thing with Linux/BSD...