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PCs are kickass

Windows is a great OS

Get with the times - we're not on windows 98 any more

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SiX and his hat, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:11, archived)

are you serious or just trolling for a bite?

(k3b/-\b Peace man., Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:11, archived)

XP is actually a great operating system.

It's gone a bit tits-up again with vista though.

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Barbarossa is not my real name, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:13, archived)

no.

(k3b/-\b Peace man., Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:13, archived)

I've been pleasantly surprised by vista

I thought it was gonna be cobblers, but once you've diasabled all the bells and whistles it's gos like a dream

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Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:20, archived)

Once you've ~~disabled all the bells and whistles~~ turned it back into something resembling XP?

Yeah, that's what I had to do :¬/

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Barbarossa is not my real name, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:22, archived)

good point

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Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:23, archived)

serious

I've never had a single crash of BSOD since about 2001. I can upgrade my machine, play games and do my programming.

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SiX and his hat, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:13, archived)

vb script is just such a damn fine language.

(k3b/-\b Peace man., Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:15, archived)

MS C++

ftw

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SiX and his hat, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:17, archived)

but vista.

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doph no time like the precedent, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:12, archived)

^this

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Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:13, archived)

Vista is great

I see 0 reason why people don't like it apart from their fear of change

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SiX and his hat, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:15, archived)

it's the FUCKING MASSIVE ICONS that put me off

which you can no doubt change somewhere, but I ran screaming back to my cave instead

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Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:17, archived)

I don't like it because there's too much fannying around which slows the whole system down

and there's way too much security that out-of-the-box your machine is basically crippled and you have to switch most of it off to get going properly.

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Barbarossa is not my real name, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:19, archived)

because you know how though

if you were an average user the UAC would stop you raping your pc :)

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SiX and his hat, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:22, archived)

There was that article I read when Vista was new

about tilt bits that disable your cards and peripherals if Vista gets the slightest notion that you might be trying to copy a hi-def DVD, and the resulting increase in the price of third-party hardware due to companies having to accommodate these paranoid specifications, which compete for space with technology of use to the owner of the computer, and about every internal bit of data being encrypted - wasting the power of the machine - just in case you're so determined to copy hi-def DVDs that you decide to open up the computer and tap into a bus or something. Maybe that was all a myth?

(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:21, archived)

myth

I have a blue-ray reader and it still works fine with all my "backup" versions of films :)

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SiX and his hat, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:27, archived)

Probably there were various ways round it by buying bits of hardware they hadn't thought of

by the sound of it it only extended to things that physically fitted inside the PC, and monitors. It still sounds pointlessly crippled - even if you can buy such a whizzy machine that you don't notice. It just sounds unfair. And affects linux users too, since they pay for and use the same hardware.

(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:50, archived)