Faildows 7 sucks; in a word: clutter; Apple poser

[TteFAboB]

The “I’m a MAC and I’m a PC” videos are wrong. PC is the new Apple. Everything in Windows 7 is a sad attempt to emulate and copy the Apples.

But if I wanted an Apple, I’d buy an Apple. I’m not a 13 year old girl; I want efficiency, cleanliness and professionalism, not fluff and rainbows. I want my work to stand out, and my tools and my desk to fade away, and not the other way around.

Ironically, efficiency and professionalism was what Apples were famous for, before they became Pop and fluffy. Yet I always chose Windows because of its flexibility. I know what kind of computer I need, not Apple.

Well, not anymore. Microsoft knows what I need now, and I need to be Apple. Can I have my perfectly fine expanding Start programs menu? No, that’s too orange and not enough Apple.

The Windows 95 theme wasn’t reached by accident or experiment, but by trial and error. It was a fruit of science, labor and utility. It has perfect contrast: black on light gray, white on dark blue, frames between windows, configuration background gray, work space background white, zero clutter, maximum cleanliness.

Screw that, let’s make everything transparent and shadowy! That’ll help! That’s way more Apple! And make the taskbar bigger too, like Apple’s! And remove the text, leave just icons, like Apple, because our customers don’t work and multitask, they just stare at pretty icons like 13 year old girls! Look, unicorns!

****! Windows 7 is ****!

Even with everything thematic and all special effects turned off, which helps, the Start menu is still the new tiny cluster****, and Windows Explorer is still full of distractions. The optimum Win95 theme can be more or less recovered, but the programs are gone.

The new generation of Microsoft is fail; they are marketing and not professionally oriented. I just cannot see why one must destroy optimality in order to impress the visually impressible or, excuse me, blind. Certainly fat is supposed to go above the muscle or bone layer, the cutting of which should not affect the underlayers. Yet Microsoft has lost the bone.

Congratulations; for the first time ever I am looking positively and seriously at Linux. Go Linux, go! The User knows best; configurability for the win!

[Chad]

I tried to find a funny picture to sum up your post, but just can't.

If you're going Linux, try Ubuntu first,

[Buddahaid]

Stop beating around the bush and tell us what you really think!

[krashkart]

Go with Debian. It's much more exciting.

[Krauter]

I use a Mac Laptop at school and actually prefer it to my Windows XP->Vista->Windows 7 Home PC I was using at home.

A lot faster, OS is actually easier and a host of other things.

The only gripe I have is compatability with other programs (games, some Office Utilitys [Solved with a new program], etc).

[CaptainHaplo]

Hmmmm.....

Ok so you don't like the new gui approach. Fine....
You liked win95/98 better..... the classic layout. Ok....

There are simple freeware tools to get your old style, single column start menu back. Easy ways to turn transparency and fading off too.....

Literally, you can get it back to the way you seem to think it should be. Windows 7 is aimed at home consumers AND business. It has the business backend, but the fluff most home users want. You have to expect some adaptation. A number of the gui tweaks are great for most folks, like the preview pane for minimized applications.

Still, put it however you want. As an IT professional, I have to point out that your basically complaining about a few dings in a paint job when your car just got a major revamped engine that now actually runs right, where the last model had all kinds of gremlins in it.

Windows 7 did make some gui changes, but the biggest changes are way deeper under the hood, and they were major changes for the better. 2k and XP had all kinds of winsock problems, Vista was a bear due to drivers (ser2pl.sys incompatiblity with 1.1 usb ports for example....) while 7 rolled out extremely solid, with none of the major bugs or memory leaks that earlier OS's started with.

A lot of times the issue isn't the OS - its those who use it. Don't get me wrong, when M$ came out with the MMC, I was yelling like crazy about how they hosed up administration. I had User Manager and Server Manager, why muck with things? Adapting isn't easy, but sometimes progress happens, and it takes us old timers a while to get used to it.

When in doubt - shortcuts on the desktop!

[Ducimus]

If you really want to get down to brass tacks, the entire windows OS line was inspired by being a Mac poser.

[the_tyrant]

KDE all the way

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

If you really want to get down to brass tacks, the entire windows OS line was inspired by being a Mac poser.

I think we could argue about whether it was Apple or Atari who did it first.

[krashkart]

Originally Posted by the_tyrant

KDE all the way

Too easy - Linux is best utilized from a virtual console.

I have nothing against KDE or Gnome, though. My eyes can only bleed for so long before I have to switch back into a visual environment.

[UnderseaLcpl]

Originally Posted by TteFAboB

But if I wanted an Apple, I’d buy an Apple. I’m not a 13 year old girl.

You sound like you're having a bad day so I'm going to let that one slide.

[gimpy117]

windows 7 user here: i have it and like it. and my gaming pc didn't cost a second mortgage on my house

you jelly?

[NeonSamurai]

Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

You sound like you're having a bad day so I'm going to let that one slide.

Ya 22 year old girls use them too

Anyhow windows 7 isn't too bad, even if it does have some stuff that drives me ballistic, its never anywhere near as bad as overpriced Apple rubbish.

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I think we could argue about whether it was Apple or Atari who did it first.

Regardless, it wasn't Microsoft.

I still remember the time period in which windows made its first showings. I considered it a crappy menu system for people who were too stupid to understand DOS.

[UnderseaLcpl]

Originally Posted by NeonSamurai

Ya 22 year old girls use them too

I'm so glad you're so familiar with the fashion tastes of 22 year old girls. That knowledge will serve you well when I apply your new eyeshadow. Would you prefer black, blue, or both?

Anyhow windows 7 isn't too bad, even if it does have some stuff that drives me ballistic, its never anywhere near as bad as overpriced Apple rubbish.

Say what you will, but my iMac has never failed me. Even when I inevitably manage to hopelessly screw up the Windows partition, iMac brings it back. It still runs the latest games on Windows Vista (of all things) without much trouble. It is well worth the $1500 I paid for it.