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August 20th, 2012 - 06:37 am ET by Chris Ahlstrom | Report spam
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I hadn't booted to Windows 7 in over a year on this old Acer laptop.
So I boot to it to remove the software I had installed. What a pain.
Especially Visio. 15 minutes to *uninstall* an application? What a
crock of shit.

Now a 100 updates are coming in. Only about 400 Mb of code, and yet
this clumsy Windows 7 update process has been going on for a half-hour
and it is only on update 20.

Lots of screen flickering, including a brief foray into a low-res
desktop, as video drivers get updated.

I always attribute the slowness of Windows 7 to running it in a VM, but
it ain't no speed-demon in a 4Gb piece of real hardware either.

Hmmm, still at update #20. Maybe it will be done when I get back from
work. Then I can kick off the Java update and figure out how to update
the MBR.

Suppose you're working on an optimizer to render \X unnecessary (or
rather, redundant, which isn't the same thing in my book).
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#1 Hadron
August 20th, 2012 - 09:26 am ET | Report spam
Chris Ahlstrom writes:

I hadn't booted to Windows 7 in over a year on this old Acer laptop.
So I boot to it to remove the software I had installed. What a pain.
Especially Visio. 15 minutes to *uninstall* an application? What a
crock of shit.

Now a 100 updates are coming in. Only about 400 Mb of code, and yet
this clumsy Windows 7 update process has been going on for a half-hour
and it is only on update 20.

Lots of screen flickering, including a brief foray into a low-res
desktop, as video drivers get updated.

I always attribute the slowness of Windows 7 to running it in a VM, but
it ain't no speed-demon in a 4Gb piece of real hardware either.

Hmmm, still at update #20. Maybe it will be done when I get back from
work. Then I can kick off the Java update and figure out how to update
the MBR.



I would like to add my support to this. The odd time I boot to Win 7 for
iPhone back up, it's a real DOG compared to debian on the same HW , Yes
I'm sure I can turn off the updates etc, ut the machine runs at a
snails pace for about 20 minutes if I dont boot it into windows for
about 2 or three weeks.


A certain COLA "advocate" faking his user-agent in order to pretend to be a Linux
user: User-Agent: Outlook 5.5 (WinNT 5.0), User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0
(Linux), Message-ID:
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#2 7
August 20th, 2012 - 09:58 am ET | Report spam
Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

I hadn't booted to Windows 7 in over a year



I haven't booted windopws 7.
Repurposed all old and new PCs to Linux.

I'm having real trouble finding a reason to boot windopws 7.
Every time the IT man upgrades a machine to windopws 7,
he's lost weeks, the user has lost weeks and management
is loosing tons of hours of sleep about the issues.
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#3 7
August 20th, 2012 - 10:07 am ET | Report spam
Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

I hadn't booted to Windows 7 in over a year




I haven't booted windopws 7.
Repurposed all old and new PCs to Linux.

I'm having real trouble finding a reason to boot windopws 7.
Every time the IT man upgrades a machine to windopws 7,
he's lost weeks, the user has lost weeks and management
is loosing tons of hours of sleep about the issues.
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#4 Big Steel
August 20th, 2012 - 12:33 pm ET | Report spam
On 8/20/2012 10:07 AM, 7 wrote:
Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

I hadn't booted to Windows 7 in over a year




I haven't booted windopws 7.
Repurposed all old and new PCs to Linux.

I'm having real trouble finding a reason to boot windopws 7.
Every time the IT man upgrades a machine to windopws 7,
he's lost weeks, the user has lost weeks and management
is loosing tons of hours of sleep about the issues.




<SLAPPED> I got to hit you with the magic healing glove 7. You are a
liar 7, and I no more believe you than a man is in the moon. No one here
has stepped off of the turnip truck who would believe your BS.
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