jj99 Posted April 21, 2009 Posted April 21, 2009 My network consists of 800 xp SP3 machines except for one mine, which has vista. Now due to my constant experimtation with random bits of sotware my pc could do with a rebuild. Now do I stick with Vista..... bring back Xp or do i go for Windows 7 RC 1. I find vista is a sack of s**t at work but at home i love it! Tell me what you guys would do if it was you....
Theblacksheep Posted April 21, 2009 Posted April 21, 2009 Vote for win 7 here and i'm with K.C.Leblanc here, vmware to run other OSs.
jj99 Posted April 21, 2009 Author Posted April 21, 2009 I already have VM ware runing on it but i like to tinker in the "real world" as it were .
matt40k Posted April 21, 2009 Posted April 21, 2009 XP, tis stable. If Mr Microsoft suddenly disables all the Windows 7 beta's you'll be stuck and you just know it'll be the one day you need your machine working 100%
jj99 Posted April 21, 2009 Author Posted April 21, 2009 I was not gonna tocuh windoiws 7 beta, RC1 is appartenly on realease for the 5th of May!!
tech_guy Posted April 21, 2009 Posted April 21, 2009 I'd go for XP - boring as hell but at least it is pretty stable. I have Windows 7 on a laptop at home and it was great to begin with but now it runs like a pig in mud. I gave up with Vista as I got hacked off with some older peripherals and software spassing about.
powdarrmonkey Posted April 21, 2009 Posted April 21, 2009 Ubuntu, VirtualBox and Wine for all your needs. Get a good book and stretch your mind
tmcd35 Posted April 21, 2009 Posted April 21, 2009 NetBSD, Fluxbox+SimDock+Thunar (for the desktop), VirtualBox+Win7 beta, Open Office and Opera. What more could you possibly need?
jj99 Posted April 21, 2009 Author Posted April 21, 2009 Dunno if i could bring myself to install opera!! Ill miss all the Internet Explorer crashed and errors Not that im against the joys of linux and such like, but gonna stick with the windows. Think i might dig out my XP disk then.....
synaesthesia Posted April 21, 2009 Posted April 21, 2009 I'd hold out for RC1 of 7. Dunno what TechGuy's done to make it run like a pig in mud but it's still running a dream on both my main system and on my el-crappo laptop. Could of course be some driver/software issue, but pedantically the same could be said of many of Vista's issues.
FN-GM Posted April 21, 2009 Posted April 21, 2009 I can speak on the behalf of SimpleSI: Use Windows 98
synaesthesia Posted April 21, 2009 Posted April 21, 2009 I think the title said "Just for Fun". JJ99 has yet to stipulate any masochistic tendencies (other than using Vista) so should probably skip by on 98. Go the whole ruddy hog and break out the Windows Me disc!
K.C.Leblanc Posted April 21, 2009 Posted April 21, 2009 Windows 3.1 Now if we're just being stupid, then we should be recommending OS2. And anyway Windows 3.1 isn't an OS.
Michael Posted April 21, 2009 Posted April 21, 2009 And anyway Windows 3.1 isn't an OS What would you say it was then? I wasn't being stupid, it was 'just for fun'
User3204 Posted April 21, 2009 Posted April 21, 2009 Now if we're just being stupid, then we should be recommending OS2. And anyway Windows 3.1 isn't an OS. I have DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 on disk here, I found them on the fireplace... It's about 20 floppy disks, so whilst it was slightly tempting to install them, I couldn't find a floppy drive. There's nothing wrong with DOS and Windows: echo y. | deltree c:\win works a treat
jj99 Posted April 21, 2009 Author Posted April 21, 2009 You can still download windows 3.11 off technet! Think there might be some compatability and driver issues tho I still have the disks for 3.14! and somewhere there is a box with the 122 floppy disks of the orginal office and i may still have Stacker anyone remeber that it doubled your disk space but made your coumputer totaly unsuable.... I say bring back dos, ill just have to remeber its dir not ls
jj99 Posted April 21, 2009 Author Posted April 21, 2009 I have just found my NT4 disks! Logging you on with cached credentials anyone??
synaesthesia Posted April 21, 2009 Posted April 21, 2009 stacker, christ. I remember my old man getting bored, went round to his one night and he'd been playing with a (then huge) 840mb hard drive. He'd got just over 2gb out if it! He tried ever so hard to actually try and fill it up in that state but couldn't find enough files and got bored of copying
jj99 Posted April 21, 2009 Author Posted April 21, 2009 840MB i prbabaly still go one of them in teh cupboard:D I remeber having two 40MB dirves and that was the dogs knackers, to get my pc to work with stacker i had to choose between the 4 speed CD ROM drivers or the mouse drivers! Autoexec.bat. emm386 god its all comming back
synaesthesia Posted April 21, 2009 Posted April 21, 2009 oh my giddy aunt Yeah, it was a new toy and it needed to be played with. Can certainly remember the old 40mb drives - hell, I've still got a Winchester lying around (either a 5 or 10mb, full height, could hold open a bank vault door/put Mike Tyson's back out). But let's not start reminiscing, it'll just make us all feel old Of course I'm not that old - at that age I was at school trying to get around the "security" on what they called "networks" in those days so I could fire up Wolfenstein 3D or Commander Keen
jj99 Posted April 21, 2009 Author Posted April 21, 2009 Wolfeinstein 3d that takes me back!!! Im not that old either, my first memories are getting Space and Kings Quest to run on my 386 lol must have been about 11.
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