Windows 7

[ToiletDuck]

surprised nothing's been mentioned yet, but the windows 7 build 7000 was leaked last week. has anyone tried it out yet?

i plan on making another partition and giving it a whirl tonight. based on the benchmarks from the 69xx builds, it's looking pretty promising in comparison to windows XP SP3 :-*.

[cbre88x]

I heard about it, but I'm not sure I want to make a temporary slot for this.

[ainmosni]

Hmmm, those benchmarks are a little light on information but it looks promising... From the screenshots I've seen it looks like vista with some UI tweaks... If you ask me it'll just be Vista SP4 with some tweaks. Hopefully it'll be better than vista but I wouldn't be surprised if they released vista with some make-up as Windows 7 just to get rid of the vista name and it's negative connotations...

[CaffeinePowered]

Hmmm, those benchmarks are a little light on information but it looks promising... From the screenshots I've seen it looks like vista with some UI tweaks... If you ask me it'll just be Vista SP4 with some tweaks. Hopefully it'll be better than vista but I wouldn't be surprised if they released vista with some make-up as Windows 7 just to get rid of the vista name and it's negative connotations...

Windows Mojave ?

[ToiletDuck]

Hmmm, those benchmarks are a little light on information but it looks promising... From the screenshots I've seen it looks like vista with some UI tweaks...

ya i'm waiting on some more in depth benchmarks, but it does look like a slimmed down vista with some much needed tweaks (memory/cache management)

[ainmosni]

[quote author=ainmosni link=topic=2087.msg59017#msg59017 date=1230575893]
Hmmm, those benchmarks are a little light on information but it looks promising... From the screenshots I've seen it looks like vista with some UI tweaks...

ya i'm waiting on some more in depth benchmarks, but it does look like a slimmed down vista with some much needed tweaks (memory/cache management)
[/quote]

That would be nice... The UI does seem familliar though...

[Vlambo]

My boot CD didn't work last night. I'll give it a go later to see if this is the next OS I love, (if not, I'm looking at you Linux)

[ToiletDuck]

That would be nice... The UI does seem familliar though...

lol to be fair, the 2D UI's haven't changed much in terms of originality for a long time other than positioning and colours

we need more 3D action!

[Blues]

I'm going to hold off until it's officially released, I'm not a big dual boot person and I'm not too interested in being a bug tester with my main OS.

Fortunately I've been hearing a lot of good stuff about Win7 from friends who are using the beta, and a lot of them dislike Vista, so it must have at least a few major updates/changes for them to have changed their opinions. Anyone using it currently?

[ainmosni]

[quote author=ainmosni link=topic=2087.msg59036#msg59036 date=1230578276]That would be nice... The UI does seem familliar though...

lol to be fair, the 2D UI's haven't changed much in terms of originality for a long time other than positioning and colours

we need more 3D action!
[/quote]

Granted, still the large icons in the bar look eerily like KDE...

About 3d, linux' 3d features in compiz are rapidly developing and are looking like they will top both windows and mac os x soon... Combine that with a better graphical memory manager in the latest kernel and you might get something really nice...

TBH I hope the playing field will level out quite a bit that users get more choice in OSes and still play the same games... I prefer linux/mac os x (as is well known) as a work OS and it sucks to dual boot with windows just to play with you people... Not saying windows should die but some competition would do a lot of good for all of us.

[copulatingduck]

of all the examples of KDE you could find, why would you pull linux mint? hate it so much >: (

KDE is super sexy though

[ainmosni]

of all the examples of KDE you could find, why would you pull linux mint? hate it so much >: (

KDE is super sexy though

Never used it myself tbh... I just pulled the first KDE screenshot I could find with a google image search.

[Spore]

The Windows 7 megathread on Facepunch is showing some incredibly positive opinions from people who are using it. Many are using it as their primary OS now that it is quite stable it seems. It seems Windows 7 is what Vista should have been, and it seems pretty great.

http://forums.facepunchstudios.com/showt...p?t=611980

[Versus]

Hmm...I think I'm going to try it now.

[CaffeinePowered]

Time to work the inside contact at microsoft for a copy on the cheap again  :

[Blues]

This is the third time I have seen the phrase "on the cheap" in the last 12 hours, and I still can't stop laughing at it. I love the internet.

[Vandamguy]

i got a copy of win 7 'on the cheap' on sunday , tried it out for a couple of hours. didn't actually do anything with it aside from try out the new MSpaint and Calc. it had a problem with my front panel audio jacks. i was going to troubleshoot it , but thought 'what's the point?'

directx reports its running DX11 though and we havnt even finished with 10 ..

[WTF Joel]

Looks like its worth checking out.

[Versus]

yeah, my cousin worked at Microsoft for a while, but then she quit. should've gotten some copies off of her ;D

[WTF Joel]

I have it installed o.o Wow this is a lot faster than Im used to xP