Windows 7 is growing on me. Doesn't feel good

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Have any other pro linux/anti microsoft people on here experienced this? A combination of failing to get matlab to behave under debian and wanting to use excel instead of calc lead to me installing 7 in virtualbox. Only a trial copy, but thought it was worth a look to see what all the fuss was about.

"Search programs and files" is yet to fail to locate the program I'm searching for, and the taskbar seems to have evolved into something useful. I also like the little arrow beside "microsoft word" in the start menu which provides shortcuts to recent documents. The gui seems more customisable than what I remember from XP as well.

I strongly suspect adopting it full time would swiftly remind me of why I left windows in the first place (I'd really miss bash for one thing), but I'm tempted to try it and see. I didn't expect that from Windows. Either I've been awake for so long that I'm no longer capable of coherent thought, or M$ have done something right this time around. I'd like to hear from anyone else who's found something similar, and encourage those of you who have been avoiding 7 out of (quite sensible and well founded) prejudice to give a trial copy a go.

Cheers
 
I mostly use windows 7, mainly because witch ever linux distro I try something either annoys me or doesn't work lol.

I'm determined to get arch linux fully setup and working over the weekend lol.
 
I find Windows 7 more tolerable than previous releases, but I still don't use it at home. Still, it's proving to be reliable enough on the test machine at work, but the amount of development work I would have to do in order to roll it out is insane. Definitely the best release I've seen from Microsoft yet, though.

Oxy said:
I mostly use windows 7, mainly because witch ever linux distro I try something either annoys me or doesn't work lol.

I'm determined to get arch linux fully setup and working over the weekend lol.
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If you need any help with Arch, give me a shout. :)
 
Superewza said:
7 is essentially Vista with a new skin. Sure there's a few changed under the hood but it's a lot less than they're marketing it to be.
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as Linux-Zealots so often say to their arguing counterparts about Linux, have you ever actually USED Windows7

paradigm said:
One word: Powershell.

Everything you ever wanted to replace cmd, and more.
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Damn right! powershell is awesome!
 
Alternatively if you have Enterprise or Ultimate, SUA (Subsystem for Unix Applications) would allow you to run BASH anyway ;)
 
JHeaton said:
If you need any help with Arch, give me a shout. :)
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I can get it all working but had hell with my printer, it's a canon ip4700 which only has .deb and .rpm 32-bit files.

I got it working on opensuse 64-bit by moving some file to some 64bit directory of cups.

I did find a program that converts .deb to tar.gz or summit so arch can use it.
 
I really like gnome-do which covers the "search files and folders" feature and similarly dockbarx is a superb substitute for the windows 7 taskbar
 
Superewza said:
Yeah, i bought it *wince*. And i used Vista for a couple of years before that. I'm a relative Linux newbie as it were.
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I think he's trying to imply Vista was rubbish... Which it wasn't, unfortunately the press decided it was and that was that, reputation tarnished...

So MS fettled around under the hood for about 10 minutes then spent a few hours adjusting the UI and released it as W7...:p
 
I like windows 7, it is the best they managed to date IMO. However, I simply cannot "feel at home" with windows when what I am doing involves console, scripts, remote connections etc.

Vista to Win 7 was about usage and user experience. MS focues on usability with 7 it seems, they introduced all sorts of wizards and helpers aimed at the naive computer user to help them configure etc.

Calc is VERY good but for some reason it lacks "something". Every time I code in calc I feel something strange I cannot explain heh ... but in excel it feels "right". Functionality wise I dare to say calc is superior.

Bottom line is, both are good solutions. Both have pros/cons .. depends on the task. MS, being prop source and all has to support whereas it is up to the community to fix linux problems. Sometimes having someone to blame is good, especially if you are a naive user. On the other hand, if you are a pro you probably do not need to read this .. you should already know that linux is linux and windows is windows :)
 
I now love the windows 7 search. The only thing thats annoying me now is the different folders have different sort by, depending on contents. e.g. music folder has different sort by types to pictures. I want to setup my types and keep them the same accross ALL folders. Date, Type, Size, Modified or something
 
I've read a few articles about powershell, I get the impression it'll do most (possibly all) things I use bash for as long as I'm willing to learn lots more syntax. I probably will be in a few weeks, until then debian in virtualbox will do. I can't get sua to work, version 3.5 refuses to install and I can't find any others associated with windows 7. I'm testing Ultimate, if SUA is preinstalled I can't find it.

Gnome-do is rather good, I think I'll keep that one installed. Cheers JC. Gnome toolbars are working well enough as a dock for now.

The only real objection I have to calc is that it doesn't use colours for brackets whereas excel does. It sounds so minor, but it really does help when there's lots of brackets involved. I'm yet to find anything missing from writer relative to word, but my girlfriend complains that various secretarial things are missing from openoffice.
 
It doesn't seem to be preinstalled, though that did give me a link with which I am currently downloading it. Cheers
 
Amp34 said:
I think he's trying to imply Vista was rubbish... Which it wasn't, unfortunately the press decided it was and that was that, reputation tarnished...

So MS fettled around under the hood for about 10 minutes then spent a few hours adjusting the UI and released it as W7...:p
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At a much better price... 50 quid for an OS is good value for money. A packaged Linux OS is similar in price.
 
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