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Windows 7 - You don't suck anymore...now I need app recommendations

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Fab4Runner

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Dec 30, 2010 8:33 AM
gut;617838 wrote:LMAO...Who gives Win7 out for Christmas? Gift receipt thank you very much...

He probably asked for it?
Dec 30, 2010 8:33am
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WebFire

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Dec 30, 2010 9:22 AM
gut;617838 wrote:LMAO...Who gives Win7 out for Christmas? Gift receipt thank you very much...

Gift for nerds.
Dec 30, 2010 9:22am
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tcarrier32

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Dec 30, 2010 9:23 AM
justincredible;617732 wrote:I got it working. It wouldn't work by installing the drivers directly. I had 4 of them on a flash drive and while trying something else I found an "update drivers" button for the network adapter. I set the drive to search for new drivers to my flash drive and it grabbed the correct one and fixed the issue.

i had to do the same damn thing to get my audio to work again once i switched to windows 7. bastards
Dec 30, 2010 9:23am
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justincredible

Nick Mangold

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Dec 30, 2010 10:31 AM
gut;617838 wrote:LMAO...Who gives Win7 out for Christmas? Gift receipt thank you very much...

I dunno, my mother in law, because I put it on my Christmas list?
Dec 30, 2010 10:31am
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Thread Bomber

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Dec 30, 2010 10:49 AM
You should have asked for your sister in law.....
Dec 30, 2010 10:49am
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j_crazy

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Dec 30, 2010 11:01 AM
i've had no issues with windows 7. then again i didn't think Vista was the collossal goat fuck that everyone else said it was either.
Dec 30, 2010 11:01am
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I Wear Pants

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Dec 30, 2010 11:29 AM
See, I love Windows 7. But Vista was a colossal goat fuck if you had anything less than 2 gbs of Ram which many did when it came out.
Dec 30, 2010 11:29am
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Dec 30, 2010 11:33 AM
I Wear Pants;618082 wrote:See, I love Windows 7. But Vista was a colossal goat fuck if you had anything less than 2 gbs of Ram which many did when it came out.

mine has 8 gb so that is why i've been good.
Dec 30, 2010 11:33am
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Nate

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Dec 30, 2010 11:36 AM
I love Windows 7.
Dec 30, 2010 11:36am
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TedSheckler

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Dec 30, 2010 12:40 PM
User error
Dec 30, 2010 12:40pm
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justincredible

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Dec 30, 2010 12:43 PM
TedSheckler;618225 wrote:User error

Sort of. But not really. In the end I fixed it but it should not have been that difficult. Installing the drivers per their instructions should have worked.
Dec 30, 2010 12:43pm
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gut

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Dec 30, 2010 12:45 PM
I don't LOVE Win7, but I don't have any issues with it. Didn't have much problem with Vista, either, once I got rid of incompatible programs and cleaned-up some other garbage (so, yeah, for the average user it would suck).

Only real issue for me is there is a small learning curve finding out where basic stuff is with the new OS.
Dec 30, 2010 12:45pm
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Dec 30, 2010 12:48 PM
I had Vista for a short 9 months while I worked at Accenture and it was pure garbage. Probably because it was running on an underpowered laptop. Either way it was part of the reason I started looking for a new job. A minor part, but still a part.
Dec 30, 2010 12:48pm
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WebFire

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Dec 30, 2010 1:01 PM
gut;618233 wrote:I don't LOVE Win7, but I don't have any issues with it. Didn't have much problem with Vista, either, once I got rid of incompatible programs and cleaned-up some other garbage (so, yeah, for the average user it would suck).

Only real issue for me is there is a small learning curve finding out where basic stuff is with the new OS.

What basic stuff? Nothing really changed (except under the hood) other than making it shiny.
Dec 30, 2010 1:01pm
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j_crazy

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Dec 30, 2010 1:05 PM
Back to the Ubuntu discussion:

how did you/do you like it Justin?

i want to run ubuntu on my machine because i've heard it's pretty smooth and faster than windows, but the wife won't let me because she's afraid she won't know how to do anything. I actually have the disc at the house but never installed due to her insistence that i not.
Dec 30, 2010 1:05pm
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Dec 30, 2010 1:07 PM
By the way do you guys all have God Mode turned on in Windows 7?
Dec 30, 2010 1:07pm
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j_crazy

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Dec 30, 2010 1:11 PM
i did on vista, haven't thought much about it on 7.
Dec 30, 2010 1:11pm
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gut

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Dec 30, 2010 1:37 PM
WebFire;618263 wrote:What basic stuff? Nothing really changed (except under the hood) other than making it shiny.

Finding the trackpad settings and how to tweak, the task bar was a bit different (maybe depends on how you had it set on Vista)....other small things, like navigating to uninstall programs. Other annoying stuff I had to figure out how to tweak to my liking like edge scrolling. Minor annoyances that had a bit of a learning curve. Plus I had some things to figure out to disable security alerts for a few programs I use. I got a new laptop with Win7 so that could be part of it.
Dec 30, 2010 1:37pm
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Nick Mangold

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Dec 30, 2010 1:48 PM
j_crazy;618273 wrote:Back to the Ubuntu discussion:

how did you/do you like it Justin?

i want to run ubuntu on my machine because i've heard it's pretty smooth and faster than windows, but the wife won't let me because she's afraid she won't know how to do anything. I actually have the disc at the house but never installed due to her insistence that i not.

Ubuntu is sweet. Part of the reason I love OS X is because it is Unix based. It makes my job a lot easier that I can essentially treat my mac the same way that I can treat my server (which runs a server version of Ubuntu). Ubuntu and OS X are very similar in the way that they operate.
Dec 30, 2010 1:48pm
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Dec 30, 2010 1:52 PM
Perhaps at the Kernal level they're similar but for most users they'll find the experiences vastly different.

I love Ubuntu and feel that it's the most polished flavor of Linux out there. But there will be people who don't like it because despite how well designed it is there are things that confuse people switching from Windows or OS X.
Dec 30, 2010 1:52pm
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Nick Mangold

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Dec 30, 2010 1:55 PM
I Wear Pants;618334 wrote:Perhaps at the Kernal level they're similar but for most users they'll find the experiences vastly different.

I love Ubuntu and feel that it's the most polished flavor of Linux out there. But there will be people who don't like it because despite how well designed it is there are things that confuse people switching from Windows or OS X.

Yeah. I guess I meant they are similar in that I love the command line and they both have a terminal app. :)
Dec 30, 2010 1:55pm
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Dec 30, 2010 1:56 PM
But they share a lot of the same visuals, at least you can configure Ubuntu to easily look like OS X.
Dec 30, 2010 1:56pm
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gut

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Dec 30, 2010 1:56 PM
How does the Office suite play with Ubuntu?

I wouldn't mind trying to ditch Windows, but then there's also all these newfangled functional keys on my laptop that I'm not sure will work properly with Ubuntu (of course, I don't really use them).
Dec 30, 2010 1:56pm
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Fab4Runner

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Dec 30, 2010 1:57 PM
Bunch of nerds.
Dec 30, 2010 1:57pm
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Dec 30, 2010 1:59 PM
justincredible;618337 wrote:But they share a lot of the same visuals, at least you can configure Ubuntu to easily look like OS X.
You can also configure it to look like Windows 7 or anything else. I love Ubuntu.
Dec 30, 2010 1:59pm