/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

I need to upgrade to windows 7 from xp but I'm scared that my legacy software won't work.

[Anonymous No.]

It's not like there's a need to hurry or anything, Windows 7 is going to be the last Windows you ever need to upgrade to anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

Unless you're using enterprise-level accounting software or a handful of poorly coded vidya, you're fine.

[Anonymous No.]

>Updating windows

[Anonymous No.]

But XP is superior...

[Anonymous No.]

Doesn't seven have some XP-esque runtime for this purpose?

XP is fine. I get tired of looking at the same boring icons all the time though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10107635
it was compared to vista. 7 is better. Even if not as trustful as ol'good xp. Still more advanced.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10107648
I cannot view 7 as better. I have heard that you can't even go back to the normal, non-shitty control panel.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10107653
You have heard wrong.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10107653
>non-shitty control panel.
I usually just run stuff like appwiz.cpl from the run command. Actually, I think I use run more than anything.

[Anonymous No.]

Dual boot.
Run xp on a vm.

Or don't upgrade.
Dx11 is a valid reason for wanting to switch, but there are no other reasons.
Yet, anyway. Sure, MS is dropping support for xp. As well as some newer apps. But that doesn't really matter much because you can always use older versions. And only unreasonably paranoid people care about security updates.
Xp will still be perfectly fine for at least 5 more years.

[Anonymous No.]

install gentoo

[Anonymous No.]

>>10107684
what for?

[Anonymous No.]

>>10107684
DON'T DO IT, OP!

[Anonymous No.]

>>10107676
>And only unreasonably paranoid people care about security updates.

When you can't even finish the install before joining several botnets, you kind of start caring, you know.

It's been only a few years since then...

[Anonymous No.]

>>10107676
XP support runs out soon. 5 more years yeah right

[Anonymous No.]

Install Debian!

[Anonymous No.]

>>10107765
Debian seriously just works, even if all of the packages are a year old, they're highly tested and apt-get is nearly idiot-proof (you're fault if you add Sid repos).

However, if OP still wants to run Windows, I would suggest Win XP 64bit instead of going beyond to 7. Dx11 isn't really worth it unless you have to be bleeding-edge (Crysis2. Witcher2, Guild Wars 2, a lot of 2s). Most Japanese games continue to be designed with XP in as a target platform.

Personally, I'm typing this on a Gentoo laptop that runs Skyrimjob and 2hu at full frames, but Gentoo is for people who have they want from a system before they emerge anything, and enjoy PlaMo as a metaphor for how you want your computer to work.

[Anonymous No.]

I was resistant as anyone to switching from XP to 7, I was going to order a copy of XP to go with my new computer I built but I let my friend talk me into ordering 7.

No regrets, better and never had an issue with software running, and that was my main concern since my XP machine was full of programs I was terrified would not run on my new PC, was not an issue though.

[Anonymous No.]

You should use an operating system that respects your freedoms.
http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html

[Anonymous No.]

Don't do it OP! You won't be able to play all of your doujinsoft games!

[Anonymous No.]

The only problems I had were my firewall and antivirus (both were very old versions from way before win7).

Now that I have that sorted out, switching to Win7 was a huge quality of life improvement. It's much faster if you have a good computer, most notably after startup. It also alt+tabs gracefully, which is nice for fullscreen games. And now I couldn't live without Shift+win+arrow keys on my dual monitors.

As for early annoyances:
- You can still display quicklaunch in there, but pinning is better once you get used to it. Shift+click is your friend.
- Animations: turn them off under performance options to make your UI faster.
- Contextmenu on the taskbar: You can no longer close windows blindly. Get used to ctrl+W if you haven't already.
- Start menu: Now this is clearly inferior. It's small and it won't even expand. There is a hack that puts your start menu in your favorites folder, so that it can expand as a tree. I suggest you do that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10107912
WINE is shit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10107947
WINE is only shit if (1) You don't read the documentation and know how to configure the fucker (2) You're using Freeware video drivers with it.

If you're getting 5FPS, it means you're the one who's fucked up.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10107945
Just out of curiosity, which firewall did you use? Sygate?
What did you switch to?

[Anonymous No.]

Just fucking update it, nigger.
Or don't. Like it fucking matters,

[Anonymous No.]

>>10107960
Outpost for firewall, and Nod32 for antivirus. Now I have the latest versions, and they both work fine. It only felt bad because I paid money for the older ones, and they were still usable on XP.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10107763
WINDOWS 8 IS THE BEST, I LOVE IT. IT'S ACE.

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>>10108013

[Anonymous No.]

>>10107856
I can't do hardware beeps anymore
I've been trying for 8 months to do it and everything I try gets rerouted to the sound interface, which outputs to the external speakers.
I just want to make the onboard speaker beep dammit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10108027
>I just want to make the onboard speaker beep dammit.

Did you check your BIOS settings for that?

[Anonymous No.]

>>10108065
that isn't the problem.
can't do it in x64 windows. they removed the capability from the HAL.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10108077

I'm really sorry to hear that, then (and thanks for notifying me, I haven't used Win natively since XPsp2). There's seriously no work around for that unless you're a wizard who can hexedit iosys to accept the old HAL as a module.

Microsoft development team a shit.