Jonathan Conrad (fnordly)'s status on Sunday, 28-Aug-11 18:00:15 UTC
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@leonkfox Windows 7 is fine. For computer programmers, Linux is about 20% cooler. Most people are stuck with upgrading from 95 or 98 to XP or Vista or Windows 7. This is a good thing. There are only 32-bit and 64-bit machines from either AMD or Intel. XP does fine on any of them, but is geared for 32-bit machines. Vista gets lots more power out of the hardware but also created some problems for itself in doing so. Windows 7 is the fixed version of Vista. Some people got used to computing with Microsoft DOS-3.3. When Windows 3.0 came out, many were forced to learn to use it for work, but others would play with it briefly before dropping back into DOS to actually do anything with their PC. Windows 7 works wonderfully in comparison to previous versions. Unfortunately, there are way too many applications to choose from, and the OS also suffers from feature bloat. To get your Windows to be less irritating is only a matter of asking less of it. Start with your firewall and virus protection.
