As of yesterday Windows 7... liking it so far, although KUSO Exif Viewer no longer seems to work! ARGH! How does everyone else check exif's on images people post?
Anyway, before yesterday was Vista, which I never hated the way some people seem to have... it was generally pretty quick, and I had few stability issues others seem to have been plagued with.
Still, I welcome anything that is less of a drain and makes things run quicker and smoother and more consistently.
Win2k on a few machines, WinXP on others, and Mac Mini 1.42 running 10.4.11. I've got Win7 disks setting at work, I might install it sooner or later. Depends how much I want to give over to DRM.
MacBook Pro - Leopard and XP Pro
Dell Laptop 1 - Windows 2000
Dell Laptop 2 - Windows XP Home
Desktop 1 - Windows Vista Home Premium - soon to be upgraded to 64 bit Windows 7
Desktop 2 - Ubuntu Linux
For photo stuff, it's mainly Mac. Well, and for personal stuff too.
For many apps and games, it's still Windows XP.
For geek stuff, I use Solaris 10 and OpenBSD. So there.
Since converting to Mac, I dearly miss IrfanView. Any suggestions?
dj dunzie wrote:
As of yesterday Windows 7... liking it so far, although KUSO Exif Viewer no longer seems to work! ARGH! How does everyone else check exif's on images people post?
Anyway, before yesterday was Vista, which I never hated the way some people seem to have... it was generally pretty quick, and I had few stability issues others seem to have been plagued with.
Still, I welcome anything that is less of a drain and makes things run quicker and smoother and more consistently.
My main home computer is a MacBook Pro with OS X. That's where I do my photo editing as well.
I own a Tablet PC with Vista as well. The ability of writing directly on the LCD is absolutely a dream coming true. I don't use paper and pencil anymore, that's my note taking and sketching device. Writing feels very natural, and I can switch pen thickness, color, perform undo, draw perfect lines, erase, cut and paste, move things around, and so on. Of course for regular text I use a keyboard, but the way my brain works is that I visualize engineering problems by sketching and writing a little. I really want to try Photoshop on it when I have some time.
At work I develop software for Windows, so I use everything from Windows XP to Windows 7, 32-bit and 64-bit alike. VMWare does the trick. I don't mind Linux on a server, but hate it for desktop. The best thing (for me) about OS X is that it's a Unix with a very friendly user interface. I'm more an engineer than an artist, though.
Therefore, I can install, re-install and change hard drive, motherboard and even computer whenever I want.
Without Product Activation, we never have to ask for a software company's "permission" in order to install the software one needs to access and work with our own data.
It is an absolute prerequisite to the safety of our data, and to the control of our own machines, that the software we need have no strings attached and can be installed and re-installed forever on compatible hardware.
"Intellectual property"?
Let us all understand that regardless of what is said about the "need to protect intellectual property," the need for 100% user control over the computer and the software remains the same. It is an absurdity if a company seeks to defend itself from its own customers.
By the way, I normally pay for Linux - by buying boxes with manuals and discs. Also, I gladly pay for software licenses. But I do not want to pay for software licenses that is tied to the manufacturer after a lawful purchase of such a license. Because we need to be in control of our computers, we should all say no the the Microsoft and Adobe Product Activation nonsense.
For the ultimate safety of our data, it is important that it is the user, and no one else, who is in control over the hardware as well as the software.
bogatyr wrote:
For the ultimate safety of our data, it is important that it is the user, and no one else, who is in control over the hardware as well as the software.
Bogatyr
For the ultimate safety of the user data it is essential that the user is not responsible for it. The average user has no idea about hardware, software, security and anything that is required to make a computer run reliably. I would feel much more comfortable knowing that my parents use TimeMachine on their iMac than some rsync script they copied from the internet for their Ubuntu box.
Using the age old analogy of cars and computers, would you feel safe if everyone around you drove cars they built and serviced themselves? Or perhaps dentists should only use tools they made themselves instead of buying from some random manufacurer. Or perhaps you should build your own microwave oven. Somehow everyone thinks they are an expert in computers and, as the rumour threads here have it, camera design and marketing.
I'm not going to go into Linux vs Windows vs OSX, in the end it is like Canon vs Nikon, Nike vs Reebok, Audi vs BMW and Burger King vs McDonalds: it is down to personal choice. Personally, I have more money than time so I use OSX. And that doesn't mean it must work for anyone else!
