What OS do you use?

[abunaidesu]

I played around on Windoze Seven on my sister's laptop when she visited a few weeks ago. Hated it.

[Master Rudy]

I played around on Windoze Seven on my sister's laptop when she visited a few weeks ago. Hated it.

I still think that the few people who still complain about Seven are those that got use to XP. Compared to Vista I rarely hear people complain about it. Vista's main issue is that it is a resource hog. If you have memory sitting idle it actually actively looks for something for the memory to do. While I do admit that I myself haven't really used Vista I have had friends that had it. The resources it uses for even minor little things is insane. I don't have numbers from Vista to back anything up. However I'm sure someone else with a similar system can get them. With Seven I had task manager open with just IE and WMP open. CPU was only using 2% (it's a 2 GHz AMD 64 bit duel core) while I was only using 32% of my RAM (3 GB max). Finally as I use Aero graphics settings with glass enabled I'm sure my graphics card helps a bit on that too (Nvidia 8800 GT, 512 MB of video memory)

I do admit that after years of using XP that Seven did take a bit of getting use to. However now I actually find it harder to go back to using an XP based Windows system than I do a Seven system. In the rare cases at work that I have to use other Windows apps I actually find myself trying to do things the Seven way and then getting confused when they don't work

Oh and if for some reason you don't like the look of Seven or find that Aero eats up too many resources on a system with a weak graphics card just bear in mind that like XP you can set it to the classic Windows 95/98 look. I do however find it surprising that the Luna style from XP isn't avalible as a skin.