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I think by now XP users are used to not having much fun. Your operating system is ten years old! The average hard drive was 40GB when it was released!

adamsmith 17y ago
In some ways that's true. Win XP is missing several features. On the other hand I'd wager that XP has broader support for any driver or program in existence than any other version of any other OS. That's always nice. As we're seeing, though, that's going to start changing real soon.
- eru 17y ago
  For old hardware Linux is probably a better bet. But Windows supports some stuff exclusively, that's right.
barrkel 17y ago
If you measure fun as negative frustration, I had a lot more fun with XP than I ever have had with Windows 7. XP was so familiar it melted into the background, and incompatibilities were non-existent. Windows 7 has moved everything around and introduced nothing of value to me personally - my preference would be for XP shell, control panel layout etc. with the Windows 7 kernel and system libraries.
- tomjen2 17y ago
  Personally I love Win 7, mostly because I can find any program I want by pressing the win key and then the name of the program. Programs I use often is just a [win]+numerical click away, I can use an external monitor with [win]+p and the windows can be arranged with [win]+[up],[down],[left],[right] and I can hover over any window group to see the different miniature windows so I don't have to haunt for them.
greyhat 17y ago
I'm sorry, but it is not 10 years old. The original release of Windows XP was late 2001 (9 years ago). Most people are running Service Pack 2 (6 years ago) or Service Pack 3 (2 years ago). I currently have no reason to switch to Windows 7, but if I do I really really hope I can change the shell to something approximating Windows 2000 and lacking the transparency and pseudo-Dock that they have going.

adamsmith 17y ago

In some ways that's true. Win XP is missing several features. On the other hand I'd wager that XP has broader support for any driver or program in existence than any other version of any other OS. That's always nice. As we're seeing, though, that's going to start changing real soon.

eru 17y ago
For old hardware Linux is probably a better bet. But Windows supports some stuff exclusively, that's right.

barrkel 17y ago

If you measure fun as negative frustration, I had a lot more fun with XP than I ever have had with Windows 7. XP was so familiar it melted into the background, and incompatibilities were non-existent. Windows 7 has moved everything around and introduced nothing of value to me personally - my preference would be for XP shell, control panel layout etc. with the Windows 7 kernel and system libraries.

tomjen2 17y ago
Personally I love Win 7, mostly because I can find any program I want by pressing the win key and then the name of the program. Programs I use often is just a [win]+numerical click away, I can use an external monitor with [win]+p and the windows can be arranged with [win]+[up],[down],[left],[right] and I can hover over any window group to see the different miniature windows so I don't have to haunt for them.

greyhat 17y ago

I'm sorry, but it is not 10 years old. The original release of Windows XP was late 2001 (9 years ago). Most people are running Service Pack 2 (6 years ago) or Service Pack 3 (2 years ago). I currently have no reason to switch to Windows 7, but if I do I really really hope I can change the shell to something approximating Windows 2000 and lacking the transparency and pseudo-Dock that they have going.