I bought my computer in early 2006 (because my old one, which was several years older, died) and it runs Windows XP just fine. I am looking into getting more RAM for it now, because I’m getting some games that recommend more memory that I currently have, but other than that I’m perfectly satisfied with its performance. So why should I go out and buy a new computer just to accommodate a new OS which I have no intention of buying?
For that matter, what’s with this whole “you need to buy a new computer every couple of years” mindset that some people have? Yes, I know prices have been coming down, and I could get a faster machine with more RAM and a bigger hard drive for about what I paid for my current computer. But I have better things I can be spending that money on, like books, DVDs, games or maybe even food. I have a 180G hard drive that has 150G of free space, so I don’t need the extra space. I don’t know how 2.19GHz compares with current speeds, but it seems to do the job okay.
My “Are you fucking kidding me?” was directed not at the assistance you offered others, but rather at what I perceived was a defense of Vista’s inherent shittiness.
Pointing out a possible solution does not imply that the problem does not exist (quite the reverse, I’d have thought). Perhaps you ought to read less angrily.
Having Vista crash so bad that (on Microsoft advice) I had reload the OS four times from scratch in the first 8 months is, yanno, a tad noticeable. Just a little. Did catch my attention rather. Sorta made me sit up and take notice. The fact that the cause of one uber crash was (what turned out to be) a bug in Microsoft’s own SP1 instal pack when first released was very reassuring.
It does seem to be basically stable now. I’m hoping this is because of updates and not luck. That’s the problem with disastrous, random interval faults: they destroy all trust. I can’t use the laptop for anything crucial, and I haven’t even bothered getting everything all set up the way I like it because I’ve done that three times already and it gets old. I guess if it doesn’t freak out for another couple of months I’ll take a deep breath and call it “reliable” and put some time into it.
Perhaps. Nonetheless, in a thread where other posters are referring to each other as “fucking retards” and “mother fucking idiots”, I feel that my outrage has been quite temperate. Obviously YMMV.
It’s a gender neutral pronoun I made up several years ago, because you just don’t know on the internet. It’s handy. Try it.
No slur’s intended on Che Guevara’s gender specificness.
I don’t know, maybe if it consents. But I’m not sure if it would consent to a “gangrape” as Lobsang suggests. Maybe it’s one of those masochistic type motherboards…Hold on we’re talking Asus here so your probably right.
I got pissed at XP after one too many unnecessary authorizations and jumped to Linux. Linux proved to be unusable, both due to crashing and the inability to run programs and games easily. I went back to XP, and I wonder why I ever left. (I’ll probably remember next time I upgrade the computer…) I’ll never touch Vista, though. No thank you.
I have to admit, though, the Mojave Experiment commercials are a bit of genius.
That’s as may be (although you’ll notice that at no point did I use any such language). I just feel that if certain people didn’t operate on a principle of Maximum Apoplexy, these computer threads might be considerably less stupid. Vista has annoyances, XP has annoyances (which we’re more used to), Linux has annoyances, OSX has annoyances. So why do all these threads end up with people acting as though someone disagreeing with them re: OS choice is like being cockslapped in the face by a syphilitic gibbon? (Edit: this is more of a general question, rather than aimed specifically at you.)
