Thread: Any one running Win7 yet?

So yeah, I had an action-packed Saturday night installing W7 on my desktop

So far I'm noticing it is way faster to boot and wildly more responsive than Vista. I did a clean install, so I'm still filling in the blanks w/ software, but it's been really painless so far. The only driver I had to chase down was my nigh-vintage sound card, but it's out there and Creative's proprietary (actually semi-useful) software looks more developed on W7 than Vista. I ran Windows Easy Transfer beforehand, so most of my old preferences and file structure were back in place in ten minutes, despite the clean install.

All the aesthetics are much improved over Vista, and the new taskbar feels positively OSX, without the limitations. Overall, where Vista was a dubious improvement over XP, this is an undeniable upgrade. Even the artwork with the included themes is about ten times better.

I thought Windows 7 looked a lot like KDE, but the Windows Project Leader says that they copied Apple .

Originally Posted by ninja9578

I thought Windows 7 looked a lot like KDE

Indeed,
did you see that advert (some OEM computer shop) that was pimping Win7 and had a big picture of a laptop running KDE

*edit*
http://linuxundich.de/en/ubuntu/wind...lation-an-kde/

So I wasn't the only one. I guess Microsoft got tired of people claiming that they were knocking of OSX, they figured very few people used or even knew what KDE was, so they decided to copy that.

I do enjoy the docking to the side of the screen though, I hope OSX has this feature soon.


I will say this though. As a developers, Windows 7 is a FUCKING NIGHTMARE! When I first started testing on it, my software wouldn't even install. So I upgraded my installer script, then my application's folder needed admin privileges, so that it couldn't write it's debug log, then it couldn't open the new ActiveX controls. I spent an entire week fixing stuff that worked in XP and Vista, and I still have random failures with installs.