Fab4Runner
Posts: 6,196
Dec 30, 2010 8:33am
gut;617838 wrote:LMAO...Who gives Win7 out for Christmas? Gift receipt thank you very much...
He probably asked for it?
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WebFire
Posts: 14,779
Dec 30, 2010 9:22am
gut;617838 wrote:LMAO...Who gives Win7 out for Christmas? Gift receipt thank you very much...
Gift for nerds.
tcarrier32
Posts: 1,497
Dec 30, 2010 9:23am
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
justincredible
Posts: 32,056
Dec 30, 2010 10:31am
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?
Thread Bomber
Posts: 1,851
Dec 30, 2010 10:49am
You should have asked for your sister in law.....
j_crazy
Posts: 8,372
Dec 30, 2010 11:01am
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.
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I Wear Pants
Posts: 16,223
Dec 30, 2010 11:29am
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.
j_crazy
Posts: 8,372
Dec 30, 2010 11:33am
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.
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Nate
Posts: 3,949
Dec 30, 2010 11:36am
I love Windows 7.
TedSheckler
Posts: 3,974
Dec 30, 2010 12:40pm
User error
justincredible
Posts: 32,056
Dec 30, 2010 12:43pm
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.
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gut
Posts: 15,058
Dec 30, 2010 12:45pm
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.
Only real issue for me is there is a small learning curve finding out where basic stuff is with the new OS.
justincredible
Posts: 32,056
Dec 30, 2010 12:48pm
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.
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WebFire
Posts: 14,779
Dec 30, 2010 1:01pm
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.
j_crazy
Posts: 8,372
Dec 30, 2010 1:05pm
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.
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.
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I Wear Pants
Posts: 16,223
Dec 30, 2010 1:07pm
By the way do you guys all have God Mode turned on in Windows 7?
j_crazy
Posts: 8,372
Dec 30, 2010 1:11pm
i did on vista, haven't thought much about it on 7.
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gut
Posts: 15,058
Dec 30, 2010 1:37pm
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.
justincredible
Posts: 32,056
Dec 30, 2010 1:48pm
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.
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I Wear Pants
Posts: 16,223
Dec 30, 2010 1:52pm
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.
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.
justincredible
Posts: 32,056
Dec 30, 2010 1:55pm
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.
justincredible
Posts: 32,056
Dec 30, 2010 1:56pm
But they share a lot of the same visuals, at least you can configure Ubuntu to easily look like OS X.
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gut
Posts: 15,058
Dec 30, 2010 1:56pm
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).
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).
Fab4Runner
Posts: 6,196
Dec 30, 2010 1:57pm
Bunch of nerds.
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I Wear Pants
Posts: 16,223
Dec 30, 2010 1:59pm
You can also configure it to look like Windows 7 or anything else. I love Ubuntu.justincredible;618337 wrote:But they share a lot of the same visuals, at least you can configure Ubuntu to easily look like OS X.