Retiring Windows 7 Anyone Else?

mushroomboy said:

[edit] I know this is true because I dual boot with Linux, though because of my distrust for MS I always detach the drives I don't want windows on, I never trust MS. NEVER!

I too learned that lesson (the hard way) many years ago. My multi-boot systems has a couple HDs and I use the BIOS boot HD selector to control which is the primary boot drive. When I loaded Win7, I unplugged my "personal" drive (Linux and XP), loaded a "work" installation of XP, dual booted it with Win7, then reconnected the other Linux/XP drive.

Now when I want to use my "personal" version of XP or my Linux every-day-use installation I make that drive primary at bootup.

Regards,
GEWB

Xzaviar said:

I want ease of use, familiarity, dependablity.....

But didn't you say you were running Vista and it was solid. Ease of use and familiarity between Vista and 7 are just about the same..in my opinion.

Xzaviar said:

Seven is about (in my estimate) a year away from proper driver support and technical fixes.

Guess it's really dependent upon your hardware because almost everything on my box at home, my laptop and my test lab machines have worked pretty much flawlessly with 7.

Xzaviar said:

Even Linux distros aren't as pervasive.

What Linux versions have you used that you found "pervasive"?? That doesn't seem to be my experience with the distros that I use (CentOS, Fedora, or Ubuntu)

Xzaviar said:

I have eight computers in use at my house. One with Vista running solid. Seven with XP Pro running solid.

Seems that if you already have 7 computers running XP...I cannot really see what you would want another one. I'd really want to mix things up a bit.

Xzaviar said:

Honestly they will receive no benefit from upgrading. We're talking people who surf the web, face book, email... I tell them to wait till it's time for them to buy a new computer and it will be preloaded with 7. What on earth is the sense for them to spend $150.00+ for a new OS on old hardware that will most likely be problematic because of the hardware?????

I guess the question would really depend upon what hardware they had and what version of Windows they were coming from. I'd say there are plenty of advantages to 7 over XP for home users. #1). system image backup #2). Aero features like snap. #3). jumplists #4) Security features like not running as an admin.

Xzaviar said:

But I would like to know if there are any others out there that have gone back to a previous version of Windows after using 7 for a while and what your reasons are.:)

I left Windows XP on my old machine because it's nothing special. AMD 4600+, 4GB of RAM, Nvidia 7600 GT.

I plan to leave Vista on my wife's laptop because it runs fine, I'm licensed for it and I have the recovery/restore system tools that came from HP which make it a breeze to reset back to the day it was new. My wife has no use for any of the functions of Windows 7.

For my primary rig, well, I built that in July around Windows 7 64-bit. That's what is on there now and I have no intention of moving back to Vista or XP.

And I do have multiple drives on my box. SSD system drive and 1TB storage drive and I haven't noticed Windows 7 doing anything strange with my multiple drives.

Lordbob75 said:

Done forget Homegroups. I had to setup a home network (file and printer sharing) at someones house yesterday on XP. Took me 3 hours longer than it should have because XP was stupid. Seven made that SO much easier.

~Lordbob

I didn't mention it because it's something that I don't use. With Vista and XP machines as well as Linux hosts on my network...I'd just rather do networking the old fashioned way. But then again, that is what I do for a living as well...so that kinda makes sense.

While we are at it lets install 95 and 32MB of RAM and a copy of Wolfenstein 3D.

I would never go back to any previous Windows OS unless I had no choice - I'm still looking for some card reader drivers but I'm 99% per cent sure that SP1 will fix the majority of issues. XP? Dead Vista? Obsolete 7? Good enough until 8 comes along.