Which OS do you use ?

[LalehForWD]

 

[Jukica]

Windows 7

 

[Milos-BC]

I downloaded Windows 8

Will probably install it in the next few days...

 

[LalehForWD]

Due to total fiasko of Windows 8, Microsoft is about to release
Windows 8.1

All demos I've seen are still using touchscreens. Who on earth have and will ever have a touchscreen PC? And who wants a Windows phone? I would perhaps want an Android tablet. I strongly dislike the ideas and direction Microsoft has taken with Windows 8 and the new Windows 8.1 doesn't seem to be able to change that. I will try the preview which is out now though.

edit:
Windows 7 will still going strong 2020

 

[Milos-BC]

^^ I agree and I think the same.

I tried Windows 8 but I switched back to Windows XP after only two days. I totally dislike the concept of Windows 8 and the idea they are trying to implement. I don't want my desktop PC to be a phone, I want to be a desktop PC.

I am using Windows 7 since February, and it is definetly the best OS ever.

 

[Verjamem]

At this moment I use Windows XP, but I will buy new PC and probably it will have a Windows 7 or 8.

 

[Milos-BC]

^^ If you can choose, avoid Windows 8 by all costs. My advice.

 

[SRBIJA]

Windows XP on my laptop, Windows 7 on PC. Both are awesome.

 

[LalehForWD]

^^ I knew it!
I guess one should be nice to Windows phone on behalf of Nokia ().

 

[Venage]

I'm currently using Mac OS X Mountain Lion, but sometimes I tend to use Windows 7 as well. I'm curious whether Microsoft manages to improve Windows 8 as it was horrible to use from the beginning.

 

[LalehForWD]

^^
Dual boot (Boot camp) or virtual?

I once made a serious attempt on building a Hackintosh, bought special hardware (Gigabit) etc. Didn't work very well in the end.

 

[Venage]

^

It depends. If I only want to lauch a small application in Windows I prefer Parallels but if I need a lot of computing power or if I want to play games I prefer Bootcamp I also thought about building a Hackintosh but in the end I didn't have much of a reason to do it. I will use my Macbook Pro and my iMac for a few years and when they're death slow I will replace them if Apple doesn't screw up OS X.

 

[nofuxCZ]

I have a dual boot - Fedora and Windows 8. I've been using Windows 8 for more than one year now and I'm satisfied with it. The major difference is the Metro user interface but actually you don't have to use it at all.

 

[LalehForWD]

^^ OK. After all - under the hood, Windows 8 is still Windows and have some great innovations compared to Win7 (API wise). I used to love tweaking with Windows, but Windows 8 just wasn't appealing to me.

I don't get why you have dual boot to Fedora though. Why not running it virtual with VMware in Windows?

 

[EdvinasLTU]

installed linux for day-trial. i liked it, but some programs didnt work with it, so meh. although, as free OS, it is veeeery good.
aand I'm using Windows 7. i got used to it, and it is great.

 

[Verjamem]

^^ If you can choose, avoid Windows 8 by all costs. My advice.

Yeah, I rather prefer Windows 8, when I need to choose. That system is just interesting and innovatory. Windows 7 is just calque of Vista, IMO

 

[Milos-BC]

^^ It is only an attempt of innovation, but a bad one. Many things are barely functioning, and I had so much problems starting from the drivers .......until gaming. There are two many changes and while it is good to introduce something new, it is not strange that the sales of Windows 8 are so low. It is funny, but every second OS that Microsoft releases ends being a good one. So the successor of Windows 8 may be something that will be good, if this trend continues

Windows 7 is far more than a revamp of Vista. It has a lot of improvements both in the registry, the system and the hierarchy itself. Windows 7 is what Vista should've been. Windows Millennium looks like a revamp of Windows 98, but Windows 98 is at least 5 x better than Millennium, that is, btw, the worst OS that Microsoft ever released (and Win 8 will join him probably on this list).

It is up to you to decide, but I wouldn't put Windows 8 on my PC now even if they would pay me.

 

[Deleted member 8866]

I have Windows 7 on my computer for about a year now. Before that I had Windows XP and for me it was pretty hard to get used to W7, beacuse they are very different. But now I wouldn't change it for nothing on this world

 

[Gera11]

Windows 7 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Windows 8

Yeah, I rather prefer Windows 8, when I need to choose. That system is just interesting and innovatory. Windows 7 is just calque of Vista, IMO

 

[Luki]

Windows 7.