Dark Side Migration - Windows 7

robbins.photo · Aug 20, 2014

Rudipides said:
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

Well opinions vary on such things of course, if I was running a tablet or something with a touch screen I might appreciate the interface better, as it is I run two large TV's as monitors (no touch screens) and using an OS that would more or less try to turn that into a cell phone interface is just not a great option.

There was no real reason to reorganize where things were or not provide a more standard interface for desktop use, and frankly that is a total fail on the designers part as far as I'm concerned. Tablets and portable devices are the wave of the future - but for sheer horsepower and in most business environments the good old desktop is going to be with us long after Windows 8 is dead and gone, and to more or less discount that when designing the interface - well it was just a really, really bad move IMHO.

unpopular · Aug 20, 2014

So long as I can start my apps up I guess it does not matter much. I wonder how much general performance improvement there is between 7 and 8?

also, what about stability? Last windows I used was XP, which for the time was relatively stable, but probably not by today's standards. In terms of stability, how does modern windows stack up

robbins.photo · Aug 20, 2014

unpopular said:
So long as I can start my apps up I guess it does not matter much. I wonder how much general performance improvement there is between 7 and 8?

also, what about stability? Last windows I used was XP, which for the time was relatively stable, but probably not by today's standards. In terms of stability, how does modern windows stack up

I can't speak for 8, took one look at it and that was enough for me - but 7 has been extremely stable on my system.

Overread · Aug 20, 2014

8.1 has been very stable for me. Moving up from Vista and having XP before that I can honestly say that Win 8.1 has been the best yet. Hardly any problems and it generally works an utter treat. Really good OS.

The only problem was the interface that they messed up - and most of that was hiding the start button. They've slowly fixed a few things - it now auto boots into the windows page instead of the metro page (that was annoying) and if you really want you can go to the windows folder and the start menu folder is inside all intact with all the links. Heck there's a slew of programs out that there restore the windows button to its normal use.

Honestly I approached win8.1 with a bit of fear but in its current form I'd say go for it.

pixmedic · Aug 20, 2014

Derrel said:
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.

no way. Vista was much much worse than win8.
and Millennia?? pffftt

Overread · Aug 20, 2014

If MS really wanted to they could have patched fixed the whole start-menu thing in a week and fixed 90% of complaints and had a really good OS launch

JacaRanda · Aug 20, 2014

I admit, that stupid app screen sucked. Rarely see it anymore.

The_Traveler · Aug 20, 2014

On the topic, I use Win 7 64 bit, I5, liquid cooled, totally quiet, on Samsung SSD with all data files on HD, runs fine, never quits, just keeps on running.
Shut it off once or twice a month to move the machine but that seems to be it.

xzyragon · Aug 20, 2014

8 can be made to look like 7, is more stable, handles updates better, manages ram better, uses less resources, and boots faster. Furthermore, you can replace that metro "screen" or whatever you call it as the start menu, which is how it should have been intended for desktops.

Biggest problem with 8? It's a touch screen optimized platform. Works great on my touchscreen laptop, but I'm not willing to shell out money to put it on my desktop that already has 7. If I had the option to get a new computer with 7 or 8 right now, i'd go for 8, but if it was just an upgrade, i'd wait for 9 to come out. 9 should in theory be able to update without shutting down the computer, a major plus to those who leave their computer on or in standby 24/7.

tecboy · Aug 20, 2014

I run Modo, Photoshop, and Illustrator most of the times, and I sometime run Maya and After Effects, these run pretty stable in windows 8. You just need more rams and speed for these high-end applications.

limr · Aug 20, 2014

I don't know if this helps or confuses things, but Windows 9 isn't that far away: Looking Ahead To Windows 9 | TechCrunch

My old laptop just sh** the bed a few weeks ago and I had to get a new machine. I refused to buy anything with Windows 8. Just wanted nothing to do with it. I had Vista on the old machine and honestly, I never really had many problems with it, but then again, I don't run a lot of resource-intensive programs. I don't like the increasing bloat of any of these systems, but as long as it lets me reset defaults and maintain a certain level of control over how it acts, then I guess I have to deal with it. I've always been a PC user, back when they were still actually called "personal computers" and required boot disks because there was no hard drive. Monochrome green-text monitor (so much better than the orange-text monitors!)

I'm not ready to go Linux totally, but I run Ubuntu on my netbook and I like it a lot.

tecboy · Aug 20, 2014

I wonder if Windows 9 can plays your favorite DVD or Blu-Ray?

unpopular · Aug 20, 2014

Thanks everyone for your replies. Because most of my say to day stuff will be on mac still, I am kind of thinking windows 8\9 if there are performance improvements. I can deal with GUI weirdness since 95% of the time I will be spending in a specific set of applications.

tecboy · Aug 20, 2014

When I was in art school, Mac was used for photo editing and PC was used for video editing and animation. I wonder which is better Mac or PC.

xzyragon · Aug 20, 2014

unpopular said:
Thanks everyone for your replies. Because most of my say to day stuff will be on mac still, I am kind of thinking windows 8\9 if there are performance improvements. I can deal with GUI weirdness since 95% of the time I will be spending in a specific set of applications.

if you can wait, I'd hold out for windows 9. If you need something right now, get something with windows 8 unless the same model of PC is available with windows 7 for cheaper. Don't turn down better computers just because they have one OS or the other though.

tecboy said:
When I was in art school, Mac was used for photo editing and PC was used for video editing and animation. I wonder which is better Mac or PC.

Don't start that here. It always ends up being a clusterf***, and is all based on opinion anyway.