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Is is worth upgrading from XP to Window 7?

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  • Doggy Styles
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    I've had W7 Ultimate for a year now. Not a huge difference in UI from XP. Seems to work pretty well.

    If you turn Windows auto-update off.

    And remove all the "free software" that PC vendors helpfully install for you.

    And turn off file indexing.

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  • Platypus
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    Originally posted by Spacecadet View Post
    Thats the point he was making
    Ooops. Yes, I see that now

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  • Spacecadet
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    Originally posted by Platypus View Post
    Is supported on W7
    Thats the point he was making

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  • Platypus
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    Originally posted by d000hg View Post
    - Photoshop
    Is supported on W7

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  • Platypus
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    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    I've gone for Win 7 Pro 64bit on my new-build PC. Very happy with it.

    Make sure you've plenty of RAM. I'd recommend 8GB or more. A multi-core processor would be ideal too. At least 6 cores...
    ^ WHS

    I stuck with XP until January this year. Very happy I switched.

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  • d000hg
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    Originally posted by petergriffin View Post
    All new Linux distros come with Libre Office which is like Openoffice but better. There's nothing, apart from advanced gaming probably, that Win 7+ Office can do that Mint + LibreOffice can't.
    Originally posted by Spacecadet View Post
    SQL Server?
    Visual Studio?
    - Photoshop
    - Quark Xpress (or whatever they use these days)
    - Matlab
    - The majority of scientific software

    Not to mention properly supporting MSOffice files... it STILL can't do proper formatting AFAIK, since people using it mention my .docx files don't display lists and things properly.

    And "advanced gaming" is perhaps THE thing which has spurred more advance in PC technology than any other, so saying "Linux can do everything except advanced gaming" is a pretty poor argument in its own right.

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  • Churchill
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    Originally posted by russell View Post
    7 is the best OS MS have came out with.
    Wrong, that was OS/2 along with IBM in the early days.

    Hth.

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  • russell
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    7 is the best OS MS have came out with.

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  • Spacecadet
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    Originally posted by Troll View Post
    Office 2010 is a pile of tulip
    Works fine for me, even has features which meant I HAD to upgrade from 2007

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  • Spacecadet
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    Originally posted by petergriffin View Post
    There's nothing, apart from advanced gaming probably, that Win 7+ Office can do that Mint + LibreOffice can't.
    SQL Server?
    Visual Studio?

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