Posted on 12/16/2013 7:23:42 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
THAT’S NOT TRUE! I AM NOT!
I have a desktop and a laptop, both run Win 7 64 bit. I keep them both updated and only had one problem with an update wrecking an application.
IMHO the best DOS version was 3.3 from the standpoint of capability vs memory footprint, but 6 for all the bells and whistles. For Windows, 2000 was the best version for capability vs memory footprint. A fresh install without patches would use 35 meg total and run like a scalded ape. But most modern apps won’t run on it and no drivers available for modern hardware. You apply all 6 patches and it’s as bloated as XP and s-l-o-w.
For people who don’t mind fiddling with the OS and apps, I thing Linux or BSD is a viable option to Windows.
Vista. (shudder)
Using Vista is like being in an abusive relationship.
DOS 6 for the bells & whistles? Good one! Can’t beat extended memory...
I used the Quarterdeck memory managers prior to DOS 6. The bells and whistles were the stuff that Microsoft bought or stole from others.
“ending support for XP will mean ‘more systems will get compromised’”
LOL, no kidding.
Next up: “The sun will rise tomorrow. Water is wet, fire is hot, and cuts hurt!”
Make that DOS 6.22 with MEMMAKER!
Why don't they convert to some sort of .exe files or a one click and it does everything it needs to do? When I ask a question they start with the command line crap like I'm some sort of code writer and get angry if I say "What you said didn't work". Linux will NEVER take the desktop till they make it more user friendly. It's beautiful software, but who can do anything with it beyond a boot up and writing a letter? Not many.
Just as an example, I recently went BACK to XP from Win7 due to a driver for a video card that would push 4 monitors not working in Win 7. I decided to try Linux again because, allegedly Linux had a driver for this card. I loaded Ubuntu, and Mint and ended up quiting because I had NO video after boot and don't know how to get to "Safe Mode" to load the driver after intalling Linux. Worked on it about 2 days and quit again and went back to XP. Anything that isn't quite vanilla and I'm lost as a goose. I don't even know if the Linux Driver would have worked if I could have loaded it, but it would have been nice to know just a little bit about Linux before trying to do Terminal mode. The "fix" I got off a Linux board was about 2 pages of command line crap that didn't work anyway. Did I do something wrong or did he not know diddly? We won't ever know, but I'm betting both. The Catalyst program that comes with the driver doesn't work in Windows or Linux.
Flashbacks to DESQview, QEMM and DR DOS. I liked that setup. XP now. Linux next. MS whatever, never.
I H8 W8!*
Teeshirt design idea
I still have windows 98se on a laptop. Only put away because you can’t surf the net any more with it.
If you’re still using XP, it’s time to upgrade.
Just saying...
I doubt you can go straight from XP to 8.1. You'd probably have to go incrementally, from XP to 7, then 7 to 8, then you can go 8 to 8.1. I've done XP to 7, and XP to 2003 on servers. I also did NT to XP way back when (NT...shudder).
“I run Win 7 on my internet-connected machine. It appears to be the ‘new XP’. It has one or two problems, but I expect after a few service packs, it will be the new Gold Standard.”
I like 7 also. Vista was a boat anchor.
Another day, another part from Linux and OSX Judaists trying to convince everyone how awlful Windows is.
MS should really keep supporting 11 year old OS because some people are cheap, lazy, or feel entitled to hand holding in order to keep their out of date computer safe.
And some of the people here have nerve to be critical of people on welfare that think along the same lines?
If Linux isn’t working for you, by all means stick with what does work.
“Good thing Dells run for ever.”
Yup. I have two of them; one is seven years old and the other is 14 years old. Both are running XP with nary a hiccup, although my desktop (the 14yo) is a bit sluggish with anything really graphics-intensive even with a video card installed.
They also have bad insurance policies. ;^)
Pretty much every computer at the place I work is running XP, save for some of the upper management. I don’t know that they really WANT to upgrade.
I work in a call center for a transportation company. The management wants to have restrictions on what programs and services the agents can access, and I think they’re concerned that they won’t have the control that XP allows them to have.
The second concern that I KNOW they have is cost. It ain’t gonna be cheap, that’s for sure.
Other people's freedom is so bothersome, isn't it?
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