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I don't know why you say goodbye, did I say hello? Here's hoping that Windows 9 will be good enough for me to move away from 7. I just want to dual-boot it for

by anon4 12y ago

I don't know why you say goodbye, did I say hello? Here's hoping that Windows 9 will be good enough for me to move away from 7. I just want to dual-boot it for gaming, I have zero patience to deal with their new UI paradigms.

dagw 12y ago
I have zero patience to deal with their new UI paradigms. Me to, that's why I don't use it in Windows 8. Windows 8.1 can trivially work like a better windows 7, and the new UI is entirely optional.
rplnt 12y ago
What I do is I boot to windows for gaming (I use it for more than that, but as an example), on top of that I run VM with Fedora. No drawbacks as far as I can tell, yet multiple benefits like pausing the machine, snapshots (in theory), just alt-tabbing to select OS, ...
higherpurpose 12y ago
So Microsoft will get you to pay for something that's essentially Windows 7 SP3, and it's biggest feature is that "it looks like Windows 7 again"? Even if I liked Windows 9, I wouldn't buy it in principle.
- freehunter 12y ago
  OSX got people to pay for the same OS, slightly updated, for a decade and a half. Only recently did they make updates free. Windows is quite exclusive in making major changes between OS releases (and now quite exclusive in charging for them).
allegory 12y ago
Similar state of affairs here. I installed windows 8 the day it came out, found it to be a pile of tripe, swore at it and rolled the machine back to 7 and vowed never to touch it again. Then our hand was forced with an 8.1 upgrade at work (built in HyperV saves us a ton of VMware licenses) so I ended up knocking that back to 7's UI as best as possible. Occasionally it still pokes me with Metro so I tend not to use it much even though the machine is a beast. I tended to work on my laptop at the time, an old T400 ThinkPad running Windows 7. The keyboard failed on that so I switched to an i7 2011 MBP I had lying around as a test machine. Chucked 16Gb in it and an SSD and it's very nice even though it's got a 1280x800 screen. So I'm sitting here now on a 2011 MBP on 10.9 with a Windows 7 VM and am relatively happy, the only persistent problem being that the quote and at keys are the wrong way round. Nice move Microsoft. Even the most platform tied of us are easy to lose!

by anon4 12y ago

dagw 12y ago

I have zero patience to deal with their new UI paradigms. Me to, that's why I don't use it in Windows 8. Windows 8.1 can trivially work like a better windows 7, and the new UI is entirely optional.

rplnt 12y ago

What I do is I boot to windows for gaming (I use it for more than that, but as an example), on top of that I run VM with Fedora. No drawbacks as far as I can tell, yet multiple benefits like pausing the machine, snapshots (in theory), just alt-tabbing to select OS, ...

higherpurpose 12y ago

So Microsoft will get you to pay for something that's essentially Windows 7 SP3, and it's biggest feature is that "it looks like Windows 7 again"? Even if I liked Windows 9, I wouldn't buy it in principle.

freehunter 12y ago
OSX got people to pay for the same OS, slightly updated, for a decade and a half. Only recently did they make updates free. Windows is quite exclusive in making major changes between OS releases (and now quite exclusive in charging for them).

allegory 12y ago

Similar state of affairs here. I installed windows 8 the day it came out, found it to be a pile of tripe, swore at it and rolled the machine back to 7 and vowed never to touch it again. Then our hand was forced with an 8.1 upgrade at work (built in HyperV saves us a ton of VMware licenses) so I ended up knocking that back to 7's UI as best as possible. Occasionally it still pokes me with Metro so I tend not to use it much even though the machine is a beast. I tended to work on my laptop at the time, an old T400 ThinkPad running Windows 7. The keyboard failed on that so I switched to an i7 2011 MBP I had lying around as a test machine. Chucked 16Gb in it and an SSD and it's very nice even though it's got a 1280x800 screen. So I'm sitting here now on a 2011 MBP on 10.9 with a Windows 7 VM and am relatively happy, the only persistent problem being that the quote and at keys are the wrong way round. Nice move Microsoft. Even the most platform tied of us are easy to lose!