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HopeHoops

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2. Hell, Win98SE predates XP and did everything it needed to do. Vista is buggy.

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Fri Nov 23, 2012, 03:36 PM

Nov 2012

I have to admit that Win7 is pretty damn stable, but my Amiga 500 is more stable. All I've heard about Win8 is that it's got a hole the size of barn door to drive bugs through. And all I use is Firefox. I also use Thunderbird, Sunbird, FileZilla, OpenOffice, and IZArc.

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+ one million. drm604 Nov 2012 #1

Hell, Win98SE predates XP and did everything it needed to do. Vista is buggy. HopeHoops Nov 2012 #2

Windows 7 has been relatively well-behaved for me, but my true love is Linux. backscatter712 Nov 2012 #63

The biggest problem I have with Vista is the background processes that eat the machine. HopeHoops Nov 2012 #69

My rule for operating systems is that I never MineralMan Nov 2012 #3

I find that I always lose the use of some software in OS upgrades. cthulu2016 Nov 2012 #4

Same here! nt ProudProgressiveNow Nov 2012 #14

That's my philosophy. Still on XP and still going strong. drm604 Nov 2012 #35

That's pretty much what we do union_maid Nov 2012 #77

M$ free for over a decade. No stress, no worries, no odious licensing, runs with Egalitarian Thug Nov 2012 #5

All Hail the Penguin! RoccoR5955 Nov 2012 #48

On the anti-virus thing; the core of the Linux/UNIX OS proscribes/prevents the kind of wholesale Egalitarian Thug Nov 2012 #62

Not if you don't protect ports RoccoR5955 Nov 2012 #75

one can always use a stick and write in dirt. that's the original way nt msongs Nov 2012 #6

"you had to pay to not use windows7" aletier_v Nov 2012 #7

I haven't used Explorer for years except occasionally. I used Chrome, which plethoro Nov 2012 #8

Want something new and flashy? NoOneMan Nov 2012 #9

Even though I am a Scientist, I have not stripped out the OI of a computer bluestate10 Nov 2012 #11

OI? The interface? Being a scientist doesn't mean this is an area of competence for you, so don't Egalitarian Thug Nov 2012 #15

Windows is a user interface that is built on an operating system, in the case of Microsoft, that bluestate10 Nov 2012 #61

Gotcha. Integrating the interface with the OS was one of M$ first and worst mistakes. Egalitarian Thug Nov 2012 #64

You can do this yourself NoOneMan Nov 2012 #18

Many apps work with Wine. L0oniX Nov 2012 #41

I just purchased a computer with Windows 8 Home Edition. bluestate10 Nov 2012 #10

I thought you were going to mention Win8, yet another rearrangement on how to get things done. gtar100 Nov 2012 #12

I refuse to use Internet ExploDer. hobbit709 Nov 2012 #13

Heh. We call it Exploder at our house, too. REP Nov 2012 #17

Windows 7 has been good for me... ProudProgressiveNow Nov 2012 #16

I'm like you........ left on green only Nov 2012 #19

"How the advertising on this board can know web sites I visit" aletier_v Nov 2012 #22

Thank you for this insight....... left on green only Nov 2012 #23

Use a proxy aletier_v Nov 2012 #24

Cookies are only 1/2 the equation. aletier_v Nov 2012 #25

I forgot to mention - Chrome ( and I believe Firefox ) aletier_v Nov 2012 #28

I have stopped most of this dreamnightwind Nov 2012 #36

Thanks for your input! left on green only Nov 2012 #44

Better Privacy is excellent! Science Geek Nov 2012 #56

TRY AdBlock kxm40 Nov 2012 #43

Thanks for your suggestion left on green only Nov 2012 #45

Stopping ads and stopping information collection are different things aletier_v Nov 2012 #50

Got ya! That's what I thought you said. left on green only Nov 2012 #54

Or use a search engine that hides your IP address dreamnightwind Nov 2012 #65

I was happy with XP, too, Blue_In_AK Nov 2012 #20

7 seems to have eliminated quite a bit of the fail that permeates Vista, but it still can't Egalitarian Thug Nov 2012 #37

XP is a pretty bad-ass little OS johnd83 Nov 2012 #21

Yup, windows versions are like the classic trek movies, every other one is pretty good. Salviati Nov 2012 #27

You're talking about Vista not Windows 7 budkin Nov 2012 #26

My XP works great, and I don't want the snake oil they're now selling, either. loudsue Nov 2012 #29

just get ubuntu d_r Nov 2012 #30

+1 ...try a live verison and check it out first. L0oniX Nov 2012 #40

A perfect example of why I use Linux madokie Nov 2012 #31

kr. HiPointDem Nov 2012 #32

I'm still using XP on two computers and haven't started IE Incitatus Nov 2012 #33

If It Ain't Broke... KharmaTrain Nov 2012 #34

Microsoft's entire business model.. sendero Nov 2012 #38

Any business that makes their website IE use only will either change or take a hit on profit. L0oniX Nov 2012 #39

Still using xp also. Mojorabbit Nov 2012 #42

When it comes to Windows I always skip an OS, Chisox08 Nov 2012 #46

The only good use for Explorer is to download its replacement bhikkhu Nov 2012 #47

If you want an alternative operating system RoccoR5955 Nov 2012 #49

you will have to move to win7 okieinpain Nov 2012 #51

XP is capable of handling/being made to handle IPv6 Heywood J Nov 2012 #74

lol, give it up man. okieinpain Dec 2012 #88

Give what up? Heywood J Dec 2012 #89

Chrome is good. FF beats IE hands down. Dump IE. bluerum Nov 2012 #52

Try Ubuntu or Mint (based on Ubuntu) Linux. There's no need to put up with MS BS and alternatives RKP5637 Nov 2012 #53

I'm running the latest version of Kubuntu, myself. backscatter712 Nov 2012 #57

Yep, Kubuntu works quite well, I was always a fan of KDE. And it RKP5637 Nov 2012 #58

Achieving bug-for-bug compatibility with Windows is no mean feat. backscatter712 Nov 2012 #59

Very well said!!! LOL n/t RKP5637 Nov 2012 #60

They can have my XP... Science Geek Nov 2012 #55

Windows 7 is the best consumer OS Microsoft has ever produced. Spider Jerusalem Nov 2012 #66

By gum! Next, they'll be taking away rotary-dial phones... brooklynite Nov 2012 #67

Better Keep At least one rotary dial mzteaze Nov 2012 #83

No problem with touch tone... brooklynite Nov 2012 #84

Some people are still leasing rotary phones pstokely Nov 2012 #85

I'll stick with XP as long as I possibly can eridani Nov 2012 #68

Sometimes I pine for the simplicity of XP... but then... ReverendDeuce Nov 2012 #70

strangely enough, I have become a fan of Vista quinnox Nov 2012 #71

Get 7 instead. Occulus Nov 2012 #72

Licensing is a "key" (pun intneded) difference between XP and everything else going forward. MindPilot Nov 2012 #73

I have XP & haven't used Internet Explorer for browsing in years! Autumn Colors Nov 2012 #76

I work in IT... smccarter Nov 2012 #78

Sorry, but Windows 7 Pro 64 bit is much better than XP Pro. MicaelS Nov 2012 #79

Agreed. Win 7 is great budkin Nov 2012 #82

sometimes obsolescence doesn't work as planned.... unblock Nov 2012 #80

linux changes every 6 months wisechoice Nov 2012 #81

The point is that IE9 won't run on XP, but cthulu2016 Nov 2012 #86

That is because probably they are far behind wisechoice Nov 2012 #87