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    Why does Win 8/7 suck so much?

    in Windows 8

    Posted · Edited by eatup

    I agree, I don't care for Windows NT 6 either. I feel it's laggy and slow. What needs to happen is the entire OS needs to be torn down and built back up from scratch. It feels too overly patched up to me. You can see XP a lot in Vista and even a bit in 7. But what needs to happen is to just completely restart the code from scratch and rebuild Windows. Aero, while it's kind of cool, it slows the OS down way too much. Windows 8 in my opinion is a bit of a joke and their adaption of the word 'apps' *shutters* is ridiculous. No way should a hybrid OS exist. It should either be for a tablet or PC, not both. The fact that a desktop environment and metro environments exists together is quite redundant and unnecessary. Microsoft is trying too hard to be cool in my opinion. Instead, they should go back to the Windows NT 4/ Windows 2000 days when you had an OS that was purely functional and solid in performance. I've had more crashes from NT 6 than the NT 5 series. I personally think Windows 2000 is king but XP isn't too far behind. The fact 3 desktop OSs supersedes it, doesn't mean that it's less than the best. I think Microsoft and possibly others have lost their way on desktop computing, and how many people truly utilize the *rolls eyes* 'cloud' as much as MS tries to say they do? Sure, you have file sharing services and the like but how many people store everything they own online? My bet is mainly the die-hard tech users. Everyday users, probably not much at all. I'll stop now, I've said what I had to.

     

    Also, anything utilizing DirectShow I believe it is will suck in Vista/7. I have games that use DirectShow and they either don't work at all, or very very poorly.

     

    Basically, I try to avoid the 'cloud' as much as I can.  'Cloud' is good for backing up your passworded/encrypted files (in case someone breaks into your house and steals your hardware).  Even then, I do this from within a browser at my own choosing, not some 'cloud' automated service running in the background.  Other than that...  Can you imagine how stupid 'cloud' computing actually is?  Most people have their internet bandwidth capped on a monthly basis.  Good luck with that and people's concern about their privacy storing their whole setup and private lives online, which may be accessible by virtually anyone!  There's a reason why we have cheap USB pen drives --- so people can go from computer to computer and still have access to their files... offline!  So, let's see...  afford 3-4 USB pen drives/year (or pay a one-time offline software cost) versus pay the same recurring annual dollar subscription for some 'cloud' service I don't really need...

     

    Personally, I don't think 9 will be as successful as 7 (b/c seven ate/eats nine --- 7, 8, 9)!  This might be pre-ordained as people pretty much hate Modern-anything UI 1.0.  So, I don't see how ver 2.0 will change people's mind!

     

    The way I see it, Windows X, XI will then be purely be based on 'cloud' and will be close to the end of Microsoft.  Then, they backpedal and get reborned/get it right again with Windows 12 offline-edition-only!

     

    IMHO just a little speculation on my part, I'd LOL if anything like that ever happened!

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    Why does Win 8/7 suck so much?

    in Windows 8

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    It's not a matter of games being designed for the XP era.  If Microsoft made DirectX 11 available on XP, it would blow 7/8 out of the water!  Just b/c 7 has the greater market share doesn't make it the King of Windows OSes!  People were forced into upgrading b/c of the annoying EoL message on MSE...

     

    Like I said, lack of USB 3.0 & AF support are XP's short comings (I couldn't care less less if XP doesn't have native multi-core support.  It just means I can run many apps simultaneously and have each thread spread on different cores).  When you combine XP + 7 in a multi boot scenario, you essentially have a killer PC running XP most of the time (switch to 7 if you need things done on USB 3.0)!

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    Why does Win 8/7 suck so much?

    in Windows 8

    Posted · Edited by eatup

    Those who are dual or even triple booting Windows XP/7/8...  I urge you to download Unreal Tournament GOTY demo (1999) from FilePlanet now.  Turn on console ([~] or [Esc]) during the game and enter STAT FPS.  You'll see why XP is still the King!

     

    What can I do about Windows 7/8's slowness?  I want to continue using XP forever b/c it's just the fastest thing out there, only lack of USB 3.0 and Advanced Format HDDs support are keeping me back...

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    My .NET 3.5 graphics app is 8x slower in 7/8 than XP!

    in Windows 7

    Posted · Edited by eatup

    What can I do?  Targetting the app for .NET 4.5 didn't do nothing for it.  By slow, I mean the refresh cycle to display stuff in the app lags like hell in 7/8...  Why would the same source code produce sucky results in 7/8 than XP.  Was the .NET runtime in 7/8 that poorly coded?

     

    An analogy is:  If my app was a game, the fps in XP would be something like 48, in 7/8 something like 8!

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    XP POSReady 2009 and ADVANCED FORMAT HDDs

    in Windows XP

    Posted · Edited by eatup

    ^ There's no arguing with some people...  Sheesh.  The label clearly reads AF (some manufacturers don't use the big clunky AF logo) and even directs you to a website for more info on the new format...

     

    Anyways, I'm too lazy to dig it up.  WD has two lines of Blue hard drives, the old Blue and the new "Scorpion Blue".  The specs you posted refer to the old line of Blues which most vendors no longer carry (at least the non-AF ones)...

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    XP POSReady 2009 and ADVANCED FORMAT HDDs

    in Windows XP

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    Whoa man, it's not easy to find non-AF drives nowadays, even for small capacities like 320GB.  They're all AF to get you to dump XP for a new sys (b/c the modern OSes require more computing power just to run decently) to boost PC sales.  It's what the "cartel" does best, plot new ways to get you to upgrade.

     

    Anyways, to the above post, if points 1 & 2 are accomplished by Installing Windows 7 on the 1st partition, the 2nd partitition (and onwards) can be reformatted by XP Embedded without any trouble, correct?  (Since XP Embedded setup isn't anything like XP Pro --- Embedded forces you to format the partition it's going to be installed on)

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