How many of you are OS holdouts / luddites? Still clinging to your favorite OS?

[Hugo Drax]

Still running multics on my honeywell computer. Why run an insecure os when you can run a real OS designed with security from the beginning.

 

[lxskllr]

Still running multics on my honeywell computer. Why run an insecure os when you can run a real OS designed with security from the beginning.

Security through obsolescence isn't a bad strategy :^P

 

[stockwiz]

There's a lot of arrogant linux types on some forums that balk when anyone mentions they are using windows. I use windows 10 for no other reason than to spite them. I get annoyed at snobs that think their alternative choices are better than people's mainstream choices... you know, the same ones that go and comment asking why anyone would want to drink Miller Lite over their "draft stouts" and stuff like that.

With that said there's no doubt Windows 10 is a hodge podge of different interfaces and that windows 7 was the pinnacle when it comes to looks and functionality and in my opinion their change starting with windows 8 was unnecessary and has not done them any favors. They tried to dumb down and simplify the interface and make it less complex and make it larger and more blocky for touch screen devices, but they'll never fully regain the market share in mobile for being late to the game... I don't think they did themselves any favors with the changes starting in 8 and personally think they should just revert all the changes made to the UI but that's me.

 

[nOOky]

My main PC is WIN 10 dual boot with the WIN 8.1 on another SSD.

I have a spare gamer with XP and Vista on it, just because I had the drives and the OS's laying around.

I have an older system with WIN 98SE that I have mainly because I wanted to play older games and I had the parts to build it. VIA 4 in 1 drivers ftw.

My signature is probably out of date but I don't care lol

 

[BarkingGhostar]

I never understood why some label others as clinging when we apply the same rules to our beloved Windows 7 that we do to our beloved significant others.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

I never understood why some label others as clinging when we apply the same rules to our beloved Windows 7 that we do to our beloved significant others.

When was the last time you had sex with Windows 7?

In other news, two excellent ways of ending a relationship with your SO: not having sex at all, or cheating on them with a piece of software.

 

[nemesismk2]

just had my new copy of windows 7 not install after lots of updates so bak to using windows xp sp3 instead with very good anti virus

 

[MongGrel]

Still running multics on my honeywell computer. Why run an insecure os when you can run a real OS designed with security from the beginning.

That must be a real PITA, as Honeywell engineers have been using Dell's in house for well over almost two decades for designing things

 

[escrow4]

just had my new copy of windows 7 not install after lots of updates so bak to using windows xp sp3 instead with very good anti virus

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. When XP was out, DVD was new and VHS was in. Its so primitive its barely funny anymore.

 

[nemesismk2]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. When XP was out, DVD was new and VHS was in. Its so primitive its barely funny anymore.

yes funny but that doesn't get my windows 7 working which is why i had to use windows xp.

 

[Anubis]

every comp in my house runs Win 10, they have for almost a year now

 

[RampantAndroid]

just had my new copy of windows 7 not install after lots of updates so bak to using windows xp sp3 instead with very good anti virus

What does this even mean? You don't install after updating, and last I knew there was no way to get to Win7 from XP (certainly not 32 -> 64 bit.)

 

[RLGL]

Still running XP and 7 on a virtual machine while loving 10. Old service manuals do not like the newer OS's

 

[Magic Carpet]

and last I knew there was no way to get to Win7 from XP (certainly not 32 -> 64 bit.)

Yeah. Only XP > Vista (And even that way, it was such a pain / a lot of XYZ's had to be met) > 7 > 8/8.1/10. Certainly, MS has improved a lot since, upgrading from 7 is now a piece of cake, in comparison. And obviously, upgrading 32 > 64 has never been possible.

 

[nemesismk2]

i have new copy of windows 7 which is windows 7 professional which is 64bit

i decided to give windows 10 a try instead of getting windows 7 64bit so wish me luck. lol

 

[Dude111]

I have an older system with WIN 98SE

Very nice

 

[nemesismk2]

i really like Windows 98 SE as well

 

[Dude111]

Yes I think its one of the BEST Windows releases ever

 

[Magic Carpet]

Yes I think its one of the BEST Windows releases ever

You clearly didn't use it to make such a bold statement.

Maybe you should start using it now... Better late than never, eh?

 

[bruceb]

XP Pro with SP3 and all other updates (with the continued update registry trick)
Works fine on an old Dell Dimension 8200 with a P4 .. now it is not best for gamers
as it can not support DX12 ... but I don't need that. My Toshiba laptop has Win 10 Home 64 Bit and it does pretty good after a few addons to make it look more like XP / 7 ... only thing I do not like is the data back to Microsoft (I turned off as much as I could) and not being able to control which updates are installed. Really should have used the Pro version

 

[IGBT]

My dell laptop did not respond well to Win 10 so I reverted it back to Win 7. My dell desktop had video card driver issues with it so reverted it back to Win 8.1. I 'll stay with what I got until I need new PC's. I'm sure new PC's designed around Win 10 are just fine.

 

[nemesismk2]

i have a brand new copy of windows 10 but so far it's not been installed due to me having zero free time

 

[Z15CAM]

Love the old WinSE particularly when it comes with MS Force back Joy Sticks on old games, and I'm not a gamer.

 

[Executioner]

error - wrong forum post.

 

[Zaap]

Try this yourselves.

Pick ANY current maker of workstation class computers. (HINT: these are computers that people do real work on, not just navel gaze FakeBook and all the rest of it.) People want what works.

NOTICE: the OS of choice overwhelmingly (if it isn't the DEFAULT choice, it's a choice one can PAY to "upgrade" the system to!!) is... drumroll...

Windows 7 x64 Pro.

This from Dell taken just now:

Notice the OS?

This from Orbital Computers-both Win10 options are NOT recommended.

Aww, and no option for the steaming pile of garbage that was Windows 8? (Though I didn't find Windows 8.1 bad at all with a few tweaks that made it basically into Windows 7).


And yes, it's a fairly similar story with whatever high end workstation makes you choose. I notice some offer Windows 10 now, but there's always the option to *heh* UPGRADE to Windows 7.

So basically, are there a lot of people out there still 'clinging' to Windows 7? You bet. As in I can still BUY any workstation with it as the DEFAULT OS. Why? IT WORKS. Consumer gimmicks aren't needed in a workstation class computer, and that's pretty much all Microsoft has added since Windows 7.