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what suits you best. personally I prefer windows 7 over 8 mainly because I dislike the dashboard approach the new windows OS uses, I rather have instantly my desktop without having to edit windows itself to get rid of the dashboard interface.
After 12 years Windows XP will be officially out of any support in less than 30 days.
Windows 7 exactly for the same reason @Mark_R mentioned
Who cares, I still used 2k internally (not for browsing and anything) up to a few years back. I still have 98 SE licenses, xp is not much younger, 98 se came up the same year iirc. I even have an xp pro 64 license. Never used except for testing, driver support was somewhat lacking.
I will comment, but someone will say I am a Fanboy of something, so I prefer not to comment, or, did I commented already
use linux mint cinnamon ~~~
You've effectively disabled the option to choose Windows 8.
You care if you depend on official support or patches.
GNU/Linux > Win 7 > Win 8.1 > Win 8
I don't know why Windows 8/8.1 option is disabled, i haven't did anything wrong.
For me, ms windows is history, 8 year before switched to Linux, and never found a single reason to reconsider it !
Fedora 20, CentOs 6
Depends on your needs however I always find I need to go back to Windows just because Linux lacks certain compatibility I need for work.
Having recently tried Windows 8 however, I have to say I actually like it and I especially like the feel of the new office suite. I use Excel a lot and it is the best yet.
I have heard that Microsoft are going to offer a free upgrade to 8 from 7, if they do I will take it.
Agreed.
No offence, but this is quite a subjective list which - objectively - is sort of far from reality.
Without having the desire to get into one of the eternal OS discussion it should be nonetheless said that Windows 8 (and of course even more 8.1) is from a technical point of view ahead of Windows 7. It comes with a lot of improvements API and Kernel-wise.
Whether the changes in the UI and the way it is used is appreciated by people is of course a different topic (and here there has been a lot of criticism, also from my part) but rather unrelated to the technical point of view.
As for Linux, it is a completely different system which is however not worse or better but simply different.
IMHO, if you are forced to use Winbloze as a desktop:
1) Virtualize it on top of a real OS (*nix); never run it on baremetal if you can avoid it
2) Win2k is the most stable OS M$ ever released, IMHO
3) XP Pro (nLited) is not bad and adds the device recognition
Yes, I know about the EOL for XP and that Win7 & Win8 were included in this question :-)
Windows 8.1 beats Windows 7 in every test in performance (slightly slower in files transfers due to the built in antivirus). (reference). Windows 8.1 also beats Ubuntu in almost every test graphic performance test (reference).
And I personally like the new UI design. In Windows 7, we had this start menu - point and click. Windows Windows 8 I just use the shortcuts (WIN-Q) and type the name of my program. Windows 7 has none of these. I never use the metro interface that everyone is complaining about.
windows 3.2
I take it you like hanzi
You should go with Gentoo. It's one of the user-friendliest distro's out there.
The '90s called; they want their blind Microsoft hatred back.
May I sign this somewhere?
LOL
MS WIN 7 from few yrs now!
There is no comparison between 98 and xp. 2k was more stable, true, but in the end xp became just as much after a few years and sp2, i think.
I used to hate 98 because was making my life hard at work, but windows 7 is even better than XP in many aspects. Didnt test 8, I am always late to it because I get my licenses from people that upgrade, not really buying, but I will try it one of these months. What I saw at other people didnt like, though, as an aspect, not functionality.
Naturally, the former is based on DOS while the latter is NT.
Than XP? Hardly.
At the time they went in parallel. After a while XP became as stable, or this is what i used to think at that time.
So you mean XP RTM compared to 2000 SP2? That might be, I did not perform any specific comparisons here. But XP in general is a fine and stable system. But so is the NT line generally.
Windows 7 covers my needs, as for Windows 8(.1).., um, well, I'm not to fond of it yet. I have used it however, it's okay.
EDIT: okay, Windows 8 is better in performance than Windows 7. So I see why so many people are starting to like it.
I personally like Windows 7 as I'm most used to to, but I do like Win 8's UI a little better.
I use Ubuntu for development stuff like coding and test. Windows 8.1 for games and 1080p movies. Making Ubuntu or Linux in general to work with my AMD APU+GPU Hybrid is a pain in the butt. Win 8.1 does a way better job in allocating resources. I think if you learn all the shortcuts in Win 8.1, you will like it.
Win7 for sure it seem no reason upgrade to 8 now.