Sims 2 and Windows 7
vecki:
Quote from: Dark Trepie on 2009 February 21, 18:38:16
Considering the pattern Windows OS's have followed over the years 7 may become the new XP.
Windows 95 - Sucked
Windows 98 - Good
Windows ME - Sucked
Windows XP - Good
Windows Vista - Sucked
Windows 7 - ??
Only time can tell. But if the pattern holds....
You know I almost agreed with you... except Windows 98 sucked arse. Blue Screens of Death were so common I could almost set my watch to it. Then the system practically imploded with 4 BSODs in 15 minutes, and convinced me to upgrade to Windows XP.
As for Vista... meh. It's there. Doesn't seem to be causing any problems. Only annoyance was the 'Are you SURE you want to run that program you just clicked download, and then double clicked on? Are you SURE about that? Why don't we ask the administrator, who is you anyway? Hi AdminYou! Do you want to let You run this program that You downloaded and then double clicked on? Yes? Ok, we'll do that then.' And that can be turned off.
Oh and when I was looking at new computers, pre-installed XP cost more than pre-installed Vista.
J. M. Pescado:
So don't preinstall. I mean, you already have a computer. You already have XP. Besides, you should never PAY for preinstalled anyway! You'd just have to wipe and format it anyway, as who knows what spyware they embedded?
Dark Trepie:
I've never really used 98. I know people who've used 98 SE and said good things about it. Guess I should've clarified.
My first computer had ME on it. Oh, the horror...
ETA: The machine I'm using now came with Vista. Getting XP was the easy part (ARRR!). Pumping it full of drivers so it would install on a system that didn't use the old IDE drives was the PITA.
Tsarina:
I wasn't even aware it was possible to buy a computer without a pre-installed OS. When I got this computer, I spent half a day getting rid of all the bloat it came with. Why would I need Desktop SMS? If I had known this could be avoided so easily and that it would probably be cheaper...
My first computer had Windows 98. It worked, and the design was nice.
Faizah:
I held on to Win 98 for as long as I possibly could. I liked it. By the time I replaced that computer, all the secondhand ones around were already on XP, which I've been using ever since, even paying extra to get it on my new PC last year instead of Vista.
Win98 caused me fewer problems than XP, which also has been mostly flawless. The biggest 'issues' have been with compatibility for older games. (GRRR at Alpha Centauri: Alien Crossfire. The patches are what broke it, the patches that were rolled into the CD version I was trying to install from. I had to 'pirate' it to get an XP-working version.) Said issues are more than enough to convince me to not go newer, at any cost.
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