I've been using Linux since Redhat 4.0 and Windows since 3.11 for workgroups,
>and before that QEMM running DOS for the BBS and good ol' desqview so I could
>have multinode... man that was unstable. I'd have to say my favorite OS of th
>bunch would be Windows 7. It's clean, fast, I have had no issues (apart from
>some old scanner but meh).
I don't run Windows 7 so I can't comment from personal experience but
after watching the word-play back and forth in here I did want to
mention some of what I have heard comparing Win7 to Vista.
Actual tests rather than 'impressions'.
Most sites agree that static memory useage for Win7 is about 250 meg.
Lowest estimates I've seen for Vista was 600 meg.. up to about 1 gig..
One person was testing Win7 under 'adverse conditions' and didn't have
much trouble running Win 7 with other common applications running on
a machine with 1 gig of Ram. He then decided to try it with 700 meg,
then 500 meg and finally 300 meg of Ram.
(I think Explorer with 10 windows open was used as a test.)
It didn't complain about low ram until the 300 meg test and at that point
it was slow to boot but finally did and showed 250 meg of ram in use.
It was mentioned that memory useage in Vista and XP grows with every
additional thing opened where in Windows 7 they use a small fixed set
of memory that doesn't grow as you open more Windows...
They demonstarted/tested that by opening 70 Windows in Win 7 and then
trying the same thing with Vista.
Vista very quickly started giving low memory warnings, had slower and
slower response and finally lost Aero. (Reverted to Vista Basic)
Using Windows 7 on a machine with identical hardware, the same script
resulted in no errors, it launched faster, and consumed less memory on
the system (than Vista).
This would indicate that Win7 is a totally different creature than Vista.
I'm not suggesting it's perfect or doesn't appear similar but the working
part of it has apparently been reworked enough to be quite noticable...
I started with an Apple II system in 1983 and have been running DOS
since v3 and Windows since v3.11. I run a highly modified version of
Win 98se because I don't particularly like the newer versions of Windows
even though I have legal registered copies sitting in a drawer here and
my computer is quite capable of handling them.
Once I'm forced to update to survive I will more likely go to Linux.
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