MS Windows 7

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adolescent wrote:
@Fransexy_

Since you gave me the :roll:, how about an example of ANY 10+ year old hardware running a modern OS (usably).  Can't be done on Windows and Mac for sure.  Maybe a BSD/Linux might get close, but even the major distros have gotten bloated.

I expect you could use Xpostfacto, to install Leopard on a top of the Line 1998 Mac... Wouldn't be my idea of fun though :-D

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adolescent wrote:

bloodline wrote:
I expect you could use Xpostfacto, to install Leopard on a top of the Line 1998 Mac... Wouldn't be my idea of fun though :-D

Nope.  

1) XpostFacto only supports up to Tiger.
2) In 1998 the top of the line was the "Beige" G3 running at a mind-blowing 333MHz!  (Even if we go to 1999 the fastest was a G4/350 which is far less than the minimum required for Leopard)

BTW, I had Panther on my G3/400 and it ran okay...  Until you opened an app.  :lol:   Same machine absolutely flies with OS9.

Ahhh... ok, well I still run Tiger on 2 of my Macs here... so it is still a modern OS... sort of... :-)

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uncharted wrote:

TjLaZer wrote:
It looks just like Vista!!!  :roflmao:

Which if I was Microsoft, I'd think twice about.  They really should be aiming to distance Windows 7 from Vista as much as possible.  A new theme, even if it is only superficially tweaked and the removing of that {bleep}ing awful green-blue aurora crap would do it.

Microsoft are in the unenviable position of having to get past Vista, without admitting Vista was a huge failure and mistake... I know only one person who regularly uses Vista... everyone else I know, who doesn't use a Mac, either has stayed with XP, or downgraded their machines (which came pre-installed with Vista) to XP...

XP works... it's a know quantity. Operating systems aren't sexy... they just need to work.

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Well... I though I would give Win7 a go then... Great M$ won't let me download it with Safari... ok fine, I'm using IE in Parallels... :roll: Stupid M$...

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Ok, I've had a play with Win7... The install was really nice, much like the MacOS X install, quick and simple.

But the whole system architecture has changed from XP, ok I missed Vista so I'm a Win generation behind... But this is too far for me... I'm too old to be bothered to learn "yet another OS"... I'm bored enough by the infinite Linux distributions...

I struggled though the various options, but could't get it do do anything that I wanted... 15 min to find a command line is too long!!! I don't have any Windows Apps anymore, so I don't really feel the need to continue with this experiment any longer. Back to my OSX 10.5 :-)

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adolescent wrote:
@Bloodline

It took you 15 minutes to click the Windows button, type CMD, and press enter?  Mac users. :-P  

(Actually, it took me about as long to find the shell in OSX the first time, I kept clicking on Console and wondering why I couldn't type anything!   :lol:)

First I had to activate the "Run" option in the start menu... There are so many options which seemingly do nothing :-? The interface is very busy, and the default colour scheme kinda sux for me :-(

I struggled with OSX when I first tried it... but my problems were all related to no knowing where stuff is, and moving from Tiger to Leopard required no re-learning... with Win7, I actually just don't know what I'm supposed to do to get stuff working... My 8 years with Win98/2000/XP seem to count for nothing. :-(

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adolescent wrote:
@bloodline

You actually didn't.  Anything you would type into the run dialog you can just type into the search box now.  (ex. CMD, C:\, http://www.amiga.org, etc.)  

Oops! I didn't think to search for it! :oops: Old windows search was so terrible I avoided...

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adolescent wrote:

@bloodline

You don't need to let the search finish (if you know what you're looking for).  I just type in what I want and hit enter.

Yes, I've just tried it, it works just like the MacOSX search... thank goodness... the XP search was HORRIBLE!!!