Re: Eagle's latest toys
ByteSlinger wrote:Stuff
Another LOL-worthy repsonse, I see. You tend to rack those up.
I like a lot of your choices. I personally consider Windows 7 polished enough to be willing to fully migrate off of XP. After all, the only true applications I need to support on Windows are the games I play...the rest I have Linux programs for. However, I still manage to keep up with a full suite of Windows applications for the purposes I might need, for example, on my laptop (with is Windows-only).
I recently switched to Avast! Antivirus myself, actually. AVG has become just a bit too bloaty if you ask me. I used AVG to get away from the bloat of Norton, not return to it... OpenOffice is all I use for my word processing on any OS. I love it. And I would also recommend CDBurnerXP if you haven't heard of it. Great substitution for the venerable Nero Burning ROM, which I used to use myself.
As far as the "try before you buy" crap, I have a lot of problems with manufacturers like HP which plop all that shit on the systems. I find it's easier to wipe the entire machine and start from scratch rather than trying to uninstall all of that, plus the stupid and annoying applications they embed into the OS (do you REALLY need a better wireless connectivity application than the one Windows provides???). But maybe that's just me.
And yes, your history of Microsoft OSes is very accurate. As my old boss put it eloquently, Microsoft would alternate "revolutionary" releases (e.g. Windows 95, Windows ME, and Windows Vista) and "evolutionary" releases (e.g. Windows 98, Windows XP, and Windows 7). But yeah, I can safely say I've moved on from XP happily, and the crashes or application bugs are extremely rare, if at all.