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[jaylach]

I never said otherwise; their windows10/11 gui fixes are generally recognize as being 'good' and that is how they make most of their money. Their game market i believe is a lot smaller - though in truth it has been a long time since i look at their financial. While a private company i believe that brad had released some break down of revenue if not recently then in the past.

I must have misunderstood one of your posts. When you said BS and yucked up I thought you meant it in relation to Stardock apps.

 

[anewbie]

I must have misunderstood one of your posts. When you said BS and yucked up I thought you meant it in relation to Stardock apps.

It was directed at MS for making bullshit changes for the sake of change. Hey Joe this is a new os so we need a new gui. Sure no problem what do you think will make it better. Doesn't matter much just change something so we can call it new and improved.

 

[jaylach]

It was directed at MS for making bullshit changes for the sake of change. Hey Joe this is a new os so we need a new gui. Sure no problem what do you think will make it better. Doesn't matter much just change something so we can call it new and improved.

Got it. I just misunderstood your post.

Just curious... What do you consider the 2 bes operating systems ever put out my MS? I say Win 2000 and 7.

 

[anewbie]

Got it. I just misunderstood your post.

Just curious... What do you consider the 2 bes operating systems ever put out my MS? I say Win 2000 and 7.

never used 2000; but by far for my usage windows 7 was the best. All down hill from there.

 

[jaylach]

never used 2000; but by far for my usage windows 7 was the best. All down hill from there.

Windows 2000 was the first NT OS put by MS and all Windows versions since have used the NT kernel.

I do and don't agree that things have gone downhill since Win 7. I think there have been advances made to Windows but I would totally agree that the GUI has gone bad which is a large reason why I use so many tweaks to bring the GUI back to what I want. MS wants to make a desktop system into a smart phone as to appearance. Can I blame them for that? No I can't as a smartphone, to many, is today's computer. That does not mean that I have to abide by what they want. Hence all my tweaks. LOL! You have seen images of my desktop and start menu in Win 11. It is +MY+ system and I will do what is needed to make how I want even if that requires third party software such as Start11. I'm 71 as of last Wednesday and stuck in my ways.

 

[MaloK]

Windows XP was the very best before 7, it's still running a lot of things today... 2k is the one I learned about active directory on, did the whole mcp, mcse and mcsa.. lolll...

And after 7 the improvements are not really toward practicality...

 

[MattW]

I grew up on Vista, and I can't remember much being about it. I do miss the old Dell tower with the dual core Pentium. We only got rid of that in 2017.

 

[jaylach]

Windows XP was the very best before 7, it's still running a lot of things today... 2k is the one I learned about active directory on, did the whole mcp, mcse and mcsa.. lolll...

And after 7 the improvements are not really toward practicality...

In my opinion XP was fine but not as good as 2000. I WILL admit that XP had a more user friendly GUI but that just means it was easier to use, not the better OS.

I grew up on Vista, and I can't remember much being about it. I do miss the old Dell tower with the dual core Pentium. We only got rid of that in 2017.

LOL! When I was going through old spin drives to find the ones I was going to clone my old Win 10 install I actually found a 40GB with Win 8.1 installed and it still boots fine.

I had no real issue with Vista except that it was overly resource hungry. At the time Vista insisted that you needed at least a 2 GHz. CPU and 2 GB RAM. Yet I ran it just fine on a 1GHz CPU and 1GB RAM after trimming things out that I didn't need.

Actually it is often the case that the video card is more important than the CPU especially when doing games and/or video processing. I remember when I ran Vista I had an ATI Rage Fury video card which, at the time, was considered top level. LOL! Who here is old enough to remember S-Video output? Anyway I came across a demo for a war type game that required a 2GHz. CPU to run. Decided to try it anyway even though my CPU was only 1 GHz.. I didn't care for the game but it ran just fine. The high level video was the real factor.

I have decided that for business stuff the CPU is probably a big influence as to performance but, if gaming or video editing, the GPU is much more important.

 

[MaloK]

I grew up on Vista, and I can't remember much being about it. I do miss the old Dell tower with the dual core Pentium. We only got rid of that in 2017.

Kids are buying these "Old" Dells today and turning them in Franken Clusterfuc*s able to use up to hundreds of cores to splice a job over 10GIG networks.

Others connects 16x 22Tb HDD's on a dead laptop with a M.2 Sata adapter.... A pile of disk with external power.

Many goes with cheap enterprise servers... And make Data centers.

Create Fully ZFS level compliant copy on replace... Able to sustain the worst power outage... Without needing to re silver anything... just a scrub once in a while...

And it's escalating... Some kidz are really blowing it... in esthetics and imagination.

From a 7 video card Accelerated Ai to HDD's holding in a Dish stand...

I'm following that crap !!! 1000%

 

[jaylach]

Since I've posted that I like my main system to be pretty here is a video of my current dual desktops at idle. Ya, I obviously also like accent lighting as seen by the bluish lighting on the wall. The video is in a ,mov format. I really need to dig through the camera settings to see if I can change the default format. Still, .mov, will work in most players if all video codex are installed. I also have MANY other videos that I can use for the wallpaper. Since it is the base for my entertainment center I just like pretty

https://jaylach.com/downloads/desktops.mov