Thread: xp - vista - windows 7?????

Originally Posted by dullbird

Ok So I now have a new laptop

which do people think would the better operating system to load???

would it be the windows 7? If so would all my programs such as lightroom etc work OK with it.

I currently have XP and vista home premium at home and I quite like vista as well

One of the true infidels!

Do not like Vista and it is very resource hungry. 7 is supposed to be far better in that regard but have not used it.

Originally Posted by dullbird

Ok So I now have a new laptop

which do people think would the better operating system to load???

would it be the windows 7? If so would all my programs such as lightroom etc work OK with it.

I currently have XP and vista home premium at home and I quite like vista as well

It all depends on what you have to be able to run on it. Windows 7 is a very nice OS, and you will find it very similar to Vista. XP is still OK too, although the refinements in the newer OS's are good enough to make the upgrades worthwhile.

You should be able to check out your programs to see whether they will run, and frequently there are update patches to make them run on Win 7.
Microsoft have a Windows 7 compatibility list, which might be useful.

You might, however, be stuck with having to get some new versions - hopefully for upgrade prices, rather than complete new versions (as I will have to do with Adobe Acrobat 5, when I change to Windows 7)

Cheers,

Lionel

Originally Posted by Stuuu

Vista and it is very resource hungry. 7 is supposed to be far better in that regard but have not used it.

True. I have Vista on my laptop and my wife has Windows 7 on her desktop. Windows 7 does boot up quicker than Vista.

Cheers,

Lionel

I went from XP to windows 7 - don't like it all that much from the point of usability - some of my gear will not run on it. My Canon scanner will not run on it. My motherboard is not compatible but runs with basic functionality. When I boot it always asks what to boot from even though I have told it to boot from C drive. I have lost my motherboard based audio.

I think it is a bit backwards from XP - any advantages in win 7 are not worth the cost. Oh - I lost me e-mail system as Win 7 does not have an e-mail system.

One of the engineers at work was very disappointed with his older style laptop. It was running XP and there were problems. After many discussions (and being impressed with my Fedora installation) he allowed me to install Ubuntu on it. After initially being impressed with the speed of his old laptop, he started complaining how he couldn't open a word document, view a wmv, etc.
After installing a few more programs (Open Office, mplayer, etc.) and codecs, he was a happy chappy with a new lease of life breathed into his aging laptop.

So, have you considered a distro of Linux (Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.)?

Vista is probably the second worst Windows version MS released (ME was a shocker!).

Whilst I am now sold on Mac OS X, I would say Windows 7 seems pretty good and stable and a lot less resource hungry than Vista. With new hardware I'd be looking at 7 over XP.

Well our computer crashed a week ago mind you it was 5yrs old with XP and now have winows 7 and its great, Havent used Vista so cannot compare.

Xp is a good operating system. I really like windows 7, it run alot better that vista. With windows 7 I usually change the theme to classic, that gets rid of areo etc. The way I see it, if I wantewd pretty then I would go for a mac Compatability mode could help you run older software, but doest alway work.

Linux would be great, but for a general users the programs are much easier to obtain for a windows operating system. I use linux in a virtual machine for testing etc, and run it on a few servers, but would never recommend for general users that are looking for ease of use.