Windows 7 RC

[suse_amd64x2]

Originally Posted by microchip8

But Wine is used to "emulate" Windows applications and I have no need for those. Again, useless for me

And Windows is used to emulate Wine,

Honestly I don't really need Windows anymore myself. I just like computers that much and trying different things on them. I still doubt very much that I will buy Windows 7. I have no need for it since I am using Suse now. All the games/software I get now will be made for Linux or at least usable with Wine.

[fbsduser]

I just don't need wintendo. Between opensuse 11.2m5 and freebsd 7+wine I got it all.

[caf4926]

I voted NO.
I don't use it. I just abuse it, in Virtual Box to see how it behaves in a multi-boot environment and how it interacts with grub etc..

[mmarif4u]

Voted NO.
Not Interested in both(Vista and 7).
By the way, should be called vista 7.

[ionpetrache]

I tried Windows 7 and it is faster that Vista that's for sure.

[caf4926]

Originally Posted by ionpetrache

I tried Windows 7 and it is faster that Vista that's for sure.

I would agree with that. But I still don't like it. A distinct lack of imagination goes in to the production of a Windows OS, hence you end up with a bland and very familiar arrangement. It's quite snappy even in Virtual Box, but I can tell you already it doesn't like some aspects of VBox, least not in my setup, I'm testing it in a multi-boot with suse.

[hcvv]

I am of the same opinion as microchip8. Not interrested at all.

I use my computer system for things I want to be done (you may call that work, leisure, ...) but testing OSs is not one of them.

[Knurpht]

I need to know something about it, due to my business, but I don't use it. About the same as Caf.
I noticed it's a bit faster than Vista, yet much slower than XP.

Yet, if people see my KDE4 desktop, they ask me if they can 'have that on Windows', so they see there's more polished beauty in KDE4 than they've ever seen in Windows.

About stability: seen a lot of BSOD's in a week's time.

[microchip8]

Originally Posted by Knurpht

Yet, if people see my KDE4 desktop, they ask me if they can 'have that on Windows', so they see there's more polished beauty in KDE4 than they've ever seen in Windows.

Of course they can have it on Windows. KDE4 works on it too

[ReferenceSeete]

I've been playing with Windows 7 Beta & RC1.
It's an improvement over Vista, and it's the first version of Windows that I've liked out of the box. There are some nice useful touches in it, especially on the window management side. It's also cool that WordPad in Windows 7 supports OpenDocument format (!)

What I'm not sure about however is how it's supposed to help people who like XP more than Vista. Windows 7 is even further away from the XP way of doing things than Vista is. And unlike Vista there are less 'behave like XP' options available. I guess people will be more forgiving so long as there are less fundamental problems like the drivers situation Vista had at launch.