hahaha, look at linus trolling

post your windows 7 experiences in this thread

Not a single problem since I installed it in May.

Linus looks old :\

i'm thinking of making the switchover to win7 as my primary OS this weekend. i have to say my experiences so far have been almost entirely positive. and i HATED vista with a fucking passion.

linus is 39

I was going to make an EKT thread about W7 and audio. Right now my firewire audio doesn't work 100% as it should. There's a sort of fix if I switch the firewire driver to the legacy one but it still has a bit of a fit if I'm switching between sample rates, that's probably down to Focusrite not having drivers with 7 in mind just yet though.

Everything else is allllriiiight

i have a linus in my homie sticker on my car

WINDOWS 7 WINDOWS 7 WINDOWS 7

Developers developers developers

  On 10/24/2009 at 9:47 PM, Obel said:

Developers developers developers

ballmer's such a fucking lunk

bah, XP's serving me fine.

the nicest improvements are small things in the ui.

shake a window and all the other windows minimize. application thumbnails in the dock ripo^H^H^Hnew taskbar

how often have you needed to do shit with two half-screen size windows side by side? drag a window to the side of the screen and it resizes to half-screen-size.

small, nice things like that.

It's a fucking dream for IT support. There's this thing called Problem Steps Recorder (type PSR and whack enter in the Start menu) which records every action you take and saves it as an MHTML file in a .zip that can be viewed on IE. So I'm educating users to do that and email it to save the effort of describing errors. Because anyone in IT support knows that listening to users describe problems can be fucking painful sometimes!

  On 10/25/2009 at 1:05 AM, Obel said:

It's a fucking dream for IT support. There's this thing called Problem Steps Recorder (type PSR and whack enter in the Start menu) which records every action you take and saves it as an MHTML file in a .zip that can be viewed on IE. So I'm educating users to do that and email it to save the effort of describing errors. Because anyone in IT support knows that listening to users describe problems can be fucking painful sometimes!

yup yup. i do IT support too, and i actually am kinda looking forward to getting my first Mouthbreathing Retard using win 7

i haven't had a win 7 customer yet. doing support is OK now, but it was a complete nightmare around the release of Vista

i don't expect Win 7 to be the same clusterfuck, and that is also a good thing

  On 10/25/2009 at 1:05 AM, Obel said:

It's a fucking dream for IT support. There's this thing called Problem Steps Recorder (type PSR and whack enter in the Start menu) which records every action you take and saves it as an MHTML file in a .zip that can be viewed on IE. So I'm educating users to do that and email it to save the effort of describing errors. Because anyone in IT support knows that listening to users describe problems can be fucking painful sometimes!

I can imagine that. Technical support trying to aid a person whose vocabulary is limited to "thingy", "just not working right", "color-blind" and use celebrity faces to describe what they are looking at.

  On 10/25/2009 at 1:29 AM, OneToThirtySix said:

  On 10/25/2009 at 1:05 AM, Obel said:

It's a fucking dream for IT support. There's this thing called Problem Steps Recorder (type PSR and whack enter in the Start menu) which records every action you take and saves it as an MHTML file in a .zip that can be viewed on IE. So I'm educating users to do that and email it to save the effort of describing errors. Because anyone in IT support knows that listening to users describe problems can be fucking painful sometimes!

I can imagine that. Technical support trying to aid a person whose vocabulary is limited to "thingy", "just not working right", "color-blind" and use celebrity faces to describe what they are looking at.

I usually take over most of the effort for these people by remoting to their machines, but if they can't figure out how to get to the home page of my company's website then it gets a little tricky. Literally, I tell them to enter the address of the website in and they go to Google and get confused. The "address bar" doesn't mean shit to some people, it can be painful.

@Kaini: Yeah mate, we steered our clients far away from Vista, the majority (every PC at every client site save for a couple of laptops here and there) are still running XP. But when we get issues with Vista it's fucking shite. The main thing is that it's slow as shit, so users tend to think that is because there's an issue when most of the time it isn't. Disabling Superfetch helps but in general Vista is always having problems. 7 is a godsend.

we don't have remote access yet, and our support structure (CRM and the like) is locked to fuck into IE6 hell. FMW.

yeah, vista runs like a dogshit/treacle mix down a 15 degree slope.

i am not the sort of person who launches into a diatribe about the weather or hows about them dodgers then over the phone.

i spend a lot of time just listening to mouthbreathers.

if windows 7 reduces the amount of time just listening to mouthbreathers, then i'll buy the t-shirt and commemorative ballmer snowglobe and all.

What kind of IT support are you? A department in a large company I take it?

  On 10/25/2009 at 1:41 AM, Obel said:

I usually take over most of the effort for these people by remoting to their machines, but if they can't figure out how to get to the home page of my company's website then it gets a little tricky. Literally, I tell them to enter the address of the website in and they go to Google and get confused. The "address bar" doesn't mean shit to some people, it can be painful.

So, you would recommend W7 for a home user that creates their own problems without any knowledge as to how they do it or to fix it?

  On 10/25/2009 at 2:18 AM, Obel said:

What kind of IT support are you? A department in a large company I take it?

  On 10/25/2009 at 2:19 AM, OneToThirtySix said:

  On 10/25/2009 at 1:41 AM, Obel said:

I usually take over most of the effort for these people by remoting to their machines, but if they can't figure out how to get to the home page of my company's website then it gets a little tricky. Literally, I tell them to enter the address of the website in and they go to Google and get confused. The "address bar" doesn't mean shit to some people, it can be painful.

So, you would recommend W7 for a home user that creates their own problems without any knowledge as to how they do it or to fix it?

Yes.

  On 10/25/2009 at 2:22 AM, kaini said:

  On 10/25/2009 at 2:18 AM, Obel said:

What kind of IT support are you? A department in a large company I take it?

 

You're Vaio support? God damn. That's gotta be dreadful.

it's not so bad. i don't do the 'eternal facepalm' pleb support on the most part,

i do corporate/b2b/co-ordinate onsite interventions. except when it gets really fucking busy (which is november-december-january )

the worst is chat. i don't do chat. people get really brave and creative as regards the abuse on chat.

Ah, that's not so bad.

Vaio's haven't got a good rep with me unfortunately, I find they tend to fuck up frequently, hardware issues and the like. Generally I avoid recommending them as the people who want them are usually the rich guys who want the expensive slick looking laptop, which is usually Vaio. The only thing is these are the more money than sense types, so the laptops take a slight knock and break from their kids who would otherwise fill it up with Smiley Central and P2P software like Limewire and virus it to all hell anyway.

To quote a client "The screen flickers all weird, I think there must be an issue from when you installed it". We received the laptop and there was a huge dent in it, obviously dropped.