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[Iggy]

Thanks TCMSLP,
I wholly agree that Linux is a mature and complete useful alternative to commercial, closed OS'.

[Iggy]

...unless you are still running XP on a P4.  Then, you should upgrade)

P4?
Hey, I sold my Phenom II a couple of months ago, and bought an i5 for my Hacckintosh.
But I've still got one machine with a PIII (@1.5GHz)!
And another with a Socket A Athlon!
Both of those are going to continue to run XP for pretty much forever.

And I have Win7 on the i5 Under Parallels.
Why would I want to upgrade to Win8?

On the two old machine, upgrading the OS to Ubuntu would be more economical then changing the hardware.
And there nothing offered by Win8 that would improve the Hackintosh.

Win8 might be a great product if you're running XP or Vista on relatively modern hardware, otherwise why bother?

[Iggy]

besides, everyone is going to end up with windows 8 anyways.

never.

[Iggy]

I'll never use 8. I'll use xp and 7 for anything I actually need windows for. If it comes with any pc I buy, I suppose I can downgrade or just hack it to get rid of the horrid parts. My bet is they separate that horrid metro interface in the next release, but we'll see.

With you on this one Steven. Metro is awful.

[Iggy]

I think they capped at 10.

XP? DX9 actually.
Vista, DX11.

[Iggy]

I also had hacked SLI drivers running (nVidia bought the Epox technology and ****canned it).  You just had to write the mobo ID where the latest Nvidia drivers looked (they looked at the registry for the motherboard ID, not directly at the BIOS)...hee hee, it was a terrible kludge but amazingly it was rock solid most of the time.  Every once in a while (and ironically, every time this happened I wasn't gaming) the system would unload it's own video drivers and I'd have to spend a while convincing the computer I actually had cards that were more than "Standard VGA Adapter(s)", but that was extremely rare.

Not Epox (that's a board manufacturer). ULi, they made the chipsets you're thinking of.

[Iggy]

Yes, you are the only person in the world that likes it.

@adonay

Yes, seconded, you are the only one that likes this interface.

[Iggy]

I did a clean install on my second hard drive so that I can dual boot with my old Vista install.

Why? I  have a copy of Vista I've retired.
Tired of it crashing.

[Iggy]

...it has never crashed in all the years since I've been using it.

You're a better man then me.
I've installed it several times (most recently only a couple months ago) and even with all current updates...boom!

[Iggy]

They really should have forked the OS, with one version having only Metro UI (Windows Media Consumption Edition), and the other having the classic desktop (Windows Functional Edition).

Great idea!
Personally Metro is going to keep me away from this one.

I'm now down to two netbooks for Windows.

Everything else, two desktops and a notebook are OSX or MorphOS.
Haven't bothered to put the Hackintosh together, even though I've got the hardware and copies of Snow leopard, Win7, and Parallels.

[Iggy]

I'm glad to hear how many of you like this.
But I still don't want it.
I've stopped at Win7 and use MorphOS more then anything else.

Pretty soon, I really won't have much use for Windows other then Netflix.