Microsoft Windows 8

[JmZ]

Well of course it'll run faster, its linux. It has like half as much stuff running in the background. You have to remember, windows is made to be user-friendly and to work perfectly out of the box. It fulfills it's purpose when taking that into consideration.

I agree vista was a resource hog and needed lots of optimisation. But windows 7 runs fine for me, has way less resources being used on average and looks nicer.

On a side note, i'd prefer some kind of debian or maybe a redhat distro over suse. No reason why, just preference. I have compiz running on ubuntu (debian) at the minute and yes, it is good but so is aero.

Oh and also, im not trying to say windows is better, I actually prefer linux a lot of the time, but windows deserves to be given at least SOME credit.

[Sandino]

omfg rickrooofff.ed

haha ik! i might as well rickroll others, since i got rickroll'd

[Hyperz]

Credit where credit is due JmZ . They get my credit for XP. I understand your points to. Agreed with the fact that 7 feels a good bit faster. But, in games (which I do play often) it still reduces my FPS by as much as 50% at times. That's not a small performance hit if you ask me. Improved desktop performance is great but it's clear that some parts are still as rough as Vista.

But I guess at the end of the day it's all taste. I'm just personally really dissapointed with the direction they went after XP. I had hoped that they were gonna go for a "just like XP but a lot faster/safer" type of OS. They went into the opposite direction. Probably for a good reason to cos besides the flashy desktop and and DX 10+ there is little they can use as a "this is why you should buy it" argument. XP was/is damn near perfect.

[JmZ]

My games have equal FPS compared to all other OS' I run (7,vista,xp).
Obviously it varies per user, not everyone has that problem.

As for the direction they went in, they went for user-friendliness. Which is what you'd expect from microsoft considering most of their buyers require such an OS. If they stuck with the rock-solid XP side of things, they'd have developed a more technical OS which not everyone would've understood (when compared with 7 for example).

[Hyperz]

They didn't go for user-friendliness since they already were user friendly since the 3.1 days. I'm really surprised you have the same game performance. Most people say they have a significant performance drop.

I still play a lot of CSS and in my case the drop was even more than this bench: http://planethalflife.gamespy.com/Vi...hCorner.Detail

[Billy Goat Gruff]

I think that looks stupid ;\

Seems fake.

[ElItE_HaXoR]

They didn't go for user-friendliness since they already were user friendly since the 3.1 days. I'm really surprised you have the same game performance. Most people say they have a significant performance drop.

I still play a lot of CSS and in my case the drop was even more than this bench: http://planethalflife.gamespy.com/Vi...hCorner.Detail

my advice is throw css out of the window and play a game that wasnt developed in the 90's lol

[Hyperz]

FYI CSS is Q4 2004-ish .

I obv. play other (shiny, new) games to. CSS is just one of those permanent residents of C:\. I have the same performance drop with other games to. Some loose only a few FPS under Vista or 7, others have the framerate sliced in half, unless it's a DirectX 10.1 game in which case it is nearly the same as it is on XP.

[d3monic]

Credit where credit is due JmZ . They get my credit for XP. I understand your points to. Agreed with the fact that 7 feels a good bit faster. But, in games (which I do play often) it still reduces my FPS by as much as 50% at times. That's not a small performance hit if you ask me. Improved desktop performance is great but it's clear that some parts are still as rough as Vista.

windows 7 has better fps rates than xp and vista.. unless you have a shitty pc

also, suse is good. i got a membership on their custom suse distro maker. i love it

[Hyperz]

Very shitty. If i had a shitty PC XP wouldn't make it 1337. Besides, -50% is -50%, whether you run a game at 10 or 100 FPS. 7 did better than Vista here but it is still nowhere near what I get on XP, in my case.