Dark Side Migration - Windows 7

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So I have been using MacOS since the dawn of time and space, but have been increasingly interested in building a PC for Maya/mental ray, blender/cycles, After Effects and, eventually Nuke. What have your honest thoughts on Windows 7 been? I am opting for 7 over 8 just because the GUI is more familiar to me as a former XP user.

I am going to try to use Linux primarily, but I have my suspicions that won't work out unless I can find some way to bail on Adobe entirely.

Please no Mac verses PC garbage. While I primarily prefer mac, I use both and will continue to do so, so no point in that BS. Also, this will be a workstation, so it won't be used for web browsing. I'll just watch porno on the Mac.

 

[SCraig]

I absolutely, positively detest the childish GUI of Windows 8. I have it on my laptop and hate it. With a lot of tweaking and third-party add-ons it can be made to look about 90% like Windows 7, but not 100%. I feel that the core OS of 8 is slightly faster than 7, primarily at boot, so they did make some minor improvements there. That said, my personal preference is 7 and that's all I order on computers for the office.

 

[Designer]

Wifey bought a new laptop (they come with 8 these days) hated it, and promptly bought the 7 overlay for it.

 

[robbins.photo]

So I have been using MacOS since the dawn of time and space, but have been increasingly interested in building a PC for Maya/mental ray, blender/cycles, After Effects and, eventually Nuke. What have your honest thoughts on Windows 7 been? I am opting for 7 over 8 just because the GUI is more familiar to me as a former XP user.

I am going to try to use Linux primarily, but I have my suspicions that won't work out unless I can find some way to bail on Adobe entirely.

Please no Mac verses PC garbage. While I primarily prefer mac, I use both and will continue to do so, so no point in that BS. Also, this will be a workstation, so it won't be used for web browsing. I'll just watch porno on the Mac.

Well if you really like Linux you could run it, and load windows 7 in a virtual machine using VirtualBox - it won't be quite as fast as running it native but on a good machine it's pretty close.

Other than that you'll have to purchase a whole new wardrobe, all black of course, and practice up on being angsty and misunderstood. It's not always easy being a Windows user you know.. lol

 

[Derrel]

Windoze 8...the most badly-received, the most widely-panned, the most universally loathed new product launched by an industry giant since Ford Motor Company dropped the hot-new Ford Edsel on the public. No matter how great the TV advertisements are, no matter how pretty the fake office worker women in the print ads are, no matter how adorable the fake families in the Windoze 8 commercials are, the public just simply will not accept chit on a stick as being a valid corndog substitute.

 

[robbins.photo]

Windoze 8...the most badly-received, the most widely-panned, the most universally loathed new product launched by an industry giant since Ford Motor Company dropped the hot-new Ford Edsel on the public. No matter how great the TV advertisements are, no matter how pretty the fake office worker women in the print ads are, no matter how adorable the fake families in the Windoze 8 commercials are, the public just simply will not accept chit on a stick as being a valid corndog substitute.

Derrel, I really don't think that's a fair comparison at all. The Edsel had a steering wheel, just like every other car. To suck as bad as Windows 8 they would have had to replace that with a game controller instead. Then it would be a fair comparison..

rotfl

 

[Derrel]

Windoze 8...the most badly-received, the most widely-panned, the most universally loathed new product launched by an industry giant since Ford Motor Company dropped the hot-new Ford Edsel on the public. No matter how great the TV advertisements are, no matter how pretty the fake office worker women in the print ads are, no matter how adorable the fake families in the Windoze 8 commercials are, the public just simply will not accept chit on a stick as being a valid corndog substitute.

Derrel, I really don't think that's a fair comparison at all. The Edsel had a steering wheel, just like every other car. To suck as bad as Windows 8 they would have had to replace that with a game controller instead. Then it would be a fair comparison..

rotfl

Well, I agree...but it's just soooooo difficult to draw a parallel in the world of suck-dom...the Edsel and Win-doze 8 are both such epic successes in the world of suck-dom that, well...I just keep correlating them with one another.

 

[JacaRanda]

All that being said, I have gotten used to W8, only because most of what I do looks like I'm doing it in W7. Just click the desktop icon and whammo - back home.

 

[SCraig]

Well, I agree...but it's just soooooo difficult to draw a parallel in the world of suck-dom...the Edsel and Win-doze 8 are both such epic successes in the world of suck-dom that, well...I just keep correlating them with one another.

Let's not forget "New Coke"

 

[Derrel]

Well, I agree...but it's just soooooo difficult to draw a parallel in the world of suck-dom...the Edsel and Win-doze 8 are both such epic successes in the world of suck-dom that, well...I just keep correlating them with one another.

Let's not forget "New Coke"

Ohhhh...and Microsoft's answer to the Apple iPod....the frickin' Zune!!!!!!!! LOL!!!!!!!

 

[robbins.photo]

Windoze 8...the most badly-received, the most widely-panned, the most universally loathed new product launched by an industry giant since Ford Motor Company dropped the hot-new Ford Edsel on the public. No matter how great the TV advertisements are, no matter how pretty the fake office worker women in the print ads are, no matter how adorable the fake families in the Windoze 8 commercials are, the public just simply will not accept chit on a stick as being a valid corndog substitute.

Derrel, I really don't think that's a fair comparison at all. The Edsel had a steering wheel, just like every other car. To suck as bad as Windows 8 they would have had to replace that with a game controller instead. Then it would be a fair comparison..

rotfl

Well, I agree...but it's just soooooo difficult to draw a parallel in the world of suck-dom...the Edsel and Win-doze 8 are both such epic successes in the world of suck-dom that, well...I just keep correlating them with one another.

True.. true.. it is hard to come up with a big list of things that hit that level of suckage. Off the top of my head, the Apple Newton.. boy did that live up to it's namesake and hit the ground like a brick. Crystal Pepsi springs to mind.. I think that was on the shelves for like 3 days, which I think was about 2 days longer than "New" Coke because boy did that stuff suck.

But ya, Windows 8 is pretty much at a level of suckage that few other can equal.

 

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So I have been using MacOS since the dawn of time and space, but have been increasingly interested in building a PC for Maya/mental ray, blender/cycles, After Effects and, eventually Nuke. What have your honest thoughts on Windows 7 been? I am opting for 7 over 8 just because the GUI is more familiar to me as a former XP user.

I am going to try to use Linux primarily, but I have my suspicions that won't work out unless I can find some way to bail on Adobe entirely.

Please no Mac verses PC garbage. While I primarily prefer mac, I use both and will continue to do so, so no point in that BS. Also, this will be a workstation, so it won't be used for web browsing. I'll just watch porno on the Mac.

Well if you really like Linux you could run it, and load windows 7 in a virtual machine using VirtualBox - it won't be quite as fast as running it native but on a good machine it's pretty close.

Other than that you'll have to purchase a whole new wardrobe, all black of course, and practice up on being angsty and misunderstood. It's not always easy being a Windows user you know.. lol

After Effects is really the only Adobe app I can't depart with just yet, and I just haven't found a really good production-ready and complete alternative for 2D animation that runs of Linux yet.

Like most things graphics-wise on Linux, there are alternatives out there, but they aren't "quite there" yet.

Then again, when I do *need* to use AE I could just switch to my Macbook Pro using a KVM switch, but at that point I am not sure there's much point and I'd be taking a pretty big performance given that my workstation will be a 12-core Xeon with a Quadro k4000. Pretty puny compared to my core duo, Geforce 9400 2009 MBP.

 

[unpopular]

I forgot to mention though that there are some advantages to Linux as well, such as easily accessing render engines remotely using ssh so that I can render and return Maya jobs remotely from school.

Though, this is probably more of a pipe dream.

 

[robbins.photo]

Lol, well a lot of things I love about linux but for now at least I'm stuck with windows. If they ever do get wine working worth a tinkers damn though I'd probably switch over and never look back.

 

[Rudipides]

I've been using Windows 8 since it was beta and I gotta say I love it. I don't use the "metro" start screen much but that's ok since Its not required. The only issue I had was learning where they put everything. But that's not exactly a reason to say it sucks or doesn't work. It didn't take long to learn my new way of finding things.

I run After Effects CS5, Photoshop and LIghtroom Cloud and Sony Vegas on my Win8 laptop and it doesn't slow down. No problems