SYSTEM wrote:
I actually think subscription model is a good idea. The Windows model of an expensive lifetime license with security updates for
over ten years has lead to the sorry situation where ancient versions of Windows are still used.
You mean like a lot of us who still run XP?
By that do you mean we should be forced to upgrade to the newest version of windows that MS pushes out just because ours is 'out of date'?
(Edit: Not to sound rude, but thinking about it, this kind of reminds me of the NSA bit going on. "It's for your own good, so just accept it and stop complaining." I'm sorry, but theres limits to what I'll have forced onto me 'for my own good'.)
SYSTEM wrote:
In the GNU/Linux world, nobody uses a distribution from 2001 today.
If Linux pushed out something that a lot of people hated for whatever reason I bet they would.
Except that Linux is open source and if people don't like it they can get together and change it. We don't have that option for Windows. We have to use whatever crap they give us or use our 'ancient versions of Windows' that operate how we like.
I personally havn't liked a version of Windows since XP:
Vista added hardware disabling DRM which is present in every version after, including Win7. Win8 added the Metro UI which they try to force you to use, going so far as to disable some scheduler trick that allowed you to bypass it on startup. Theres also the issue of Win8 reporting what you install and a number of other issues that I've mentioned in the other
thread.
(Hell, I was even upset with Ubuntu sending out your harddrive searches with Dash or whatever and I don't even use it, so don't think I just hate Window. I just have Massive issues with the direction its taking.)
SYSTEM wrote:
Firewrath wrote:
I also just want to say one thing about this:
SYSTEM wrote:
I recommend against getting Windows 7. You'll have to upgrade or switch eventually, and it's better to do that sooner than later.
Yeah. Sooner or later ReactOS will be done and you can always upgrade to it or switch to Linux.
But seriously, imo, you don't "have" to switch/upgrade. I'm still using XP, I'd probably upgrade to Win7 if I had a new comp to put it on, but thats as far as I see myself going with windows, and I've been using it since 3.1...
I said "eventually". For example, Windows 98 users have had to upgrade or switch by now.
I know what you're saying, and I agree to a point.
Just imo, you Shouldn't Have to upgrade till 10-15years down the road unless theres some massive change in the way computers operate by then, or you absolutely need to run some newer piece of hardware/software that cant be supported by your current system, but those issues would apply to Win8 just as much as Win7. So meh.
(Also to get really picky, I'm sure theres computers out there that run a certain peice of older hardware/software that works fine for what it needs to do and doesnt need to be upgraded.
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