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Convince me to try/use Windows 7
I know Windows 7 is still beta, and that might affect some of the criteria I'm about to list, but here goes:
I am a Windows XP user who (obviously) skipped Vista. I've been hearing only good things about Windows 7, but I'm still a bit leery. I figure that these forums are full of knowledgeable people, so I'm looking for some real reasons (preferably quantifiable unless related to subjective matters such as user interface) for why I should switch to Windows 7, either now or when it is released.
I'll give a little background on my rig and what I use my computer for:
e5200 @ 3.8ghz, 4GB ram, 8800gt
Running Windows XP SP3, nLited and very tweaked (registry tweaks, services disabled, extra stuff like windows media player removed). I restart my computer every month or so, but it's usually on 24/7.
It is running no antivirus, and windows firewall is disabled. I have a pfSense hardware firewall filtering all inbound/outbound connections, so I haven't been hit by a virus in a VERY long time.
I use the computer mostly for web browsing, gaming, and academic-type work. Web browsing is with firefox, gaming involves games as old as the original starcraft all the way up to Left 4 Dead, and work involves microsoft office, matlab, mathematica, photoshop, and various IDEs (visual studio, wing, eclipse, etc). I also listen to music off a networked drive (slackware w/ unRAID running a Samba server) using winamp. I have 2 monitors so I usually am running several different programs at once.
I've also, of course, tweaked the UI with the uxtheme.dll mod and emulated a OSX-esque desktop with RocketDock, etc.
Can anyone give me any serious reasons to move to Windows 7?
EDIT: If you need any more info, I'd be glad to provide it.