Comments on: A Week Of Windows 7

By: John Rockefeller

John Rockefeller — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:01:53 +0000

Good post. How about including a link to the Promise ATA100 drivers for those in the same boat as you?

By: Love Vista

Love Vista — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:56:56 +0000

When XP came out first, people said the similar things about it.

Turn of UAC, get SP2, patches. Most of problems will be resolved. I’m not upgrading my Vista to Win7 yet, although I purchased Win7. I just don’t have much time or need for it. But I’m going to upgrade XP machine to Win7…

@Gregory:
Windows and Linux are just different environments. You can still install those apps on Windows, but you can’t install Windows tools on Linux. So comparing such is not very useful, IMHO.

I use Ubuntu as my 3rd PC at work, and many RedHat for servers (again, at work). Linux is great, but all those little gadgets I bought (Palm and apps I bought with conduits), tablet, etc will only work on Windows. If they’re supported in other types of OS (Linux, MacOS), I wouldn’t care much. Oh, but Mac is more expensive…so may be not Mac.

By: Bowwow

Bowwow — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:22:57 +0000

I’m a vista hater. Wife had it on her notebook and we rolled it back to XP after about 6 months. It was slow; so many permission popups and file IO (copy) etc. took centuries. I’m sure they were configurable but damn; just want the OS to work fast out of the box ya know? Nice writeup — looking forward to 7

By: FettesPS

FettesPS — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:34:10 +0000

@Gregory – If you’re happy with Debian then stick with it. It’s certainly up to you. I still have a Ubuntu box sitting on my desk and my TabletPC is now running LinuxMint. I also have many servers that run off of Debian. But for my main desktop I am quite happy with Win7 right now, I find it very refreshing. And it’s nice to not have to spend hours messing around with Wine when I wan’t to play StarCraft or Half Life.

By: FettesPS

FettesPS — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:29:57 +0000

@Aakash – I wouldn’t consider myself a Vista hater. My only major gripe with it was drivers. Even still I can’t get half my hardware working in Vista on a fairly new system. Win7 picked up everything except the Co-processor which was quickly fixed. Vista was just too big of a step for many people, XP had been out far too long and people just got too comfortable with it. Windows 7 is a much smaller step forward,it’s like going from Win 98 to Win 2000.

By: Gregory Strockbine

Gregory Strockbine — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:20:20 +0000

Suppose I do switch to win 7. Now there are a few things I need to work with. How do I install a C/C++ compiler, apache, MySQL, couchDB, an IDE, emacs, and ssh? Is it as easy as
> apt-get install g++, gcc, apache, mysql, netbeans, emacs, ssh, couchdb

that’s how it is on a Debian based Linux. Within a few minutes I can be working.

Can I set my focus as “cursor follows mouse”?

Can I plunk an xterm in the middle of my browser window and scroll the browser window without it raising over the xterm?

I love eye candy so I use the compiz window manager with my work spaces mapped to a rotating cube. What is the equivalent in win 7?

By: Aakash

Aakash — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:18:07 +0000

Don’t understand the hate with Vista.

Also don’t understand how someone can hate Vista and like Windows 7, on such a high config. Most of what is there in Windows 7 was there in Vista.