OT: Operating System Upgrade

Kamog · #1 September 8th, 2005, 02:44 AM

Thanks for the answers! It looks like XP Home Edition is good enough for me, so like you said, I'll only get Professional if the price isn't much different. I'll probably do that when I get a new computer. My current computer is 800 MHz AMD and I think I'll get something faster within the next several months, in time for when SEV comes out.

I'm running Windows ME right now and it doesn't crash too often, maybe couple of times a week as long as I'm careful. One of the annoying things however is that I cannot switch between SEIV and any other program during the AI's turn. If I use ALT-TAB it crashes and have to reboot. Also for some games if I quit, start a game, quit and so on several times it gets slower and slower and eventually it just unexpectedly quits the program and doesn't run anymore. I periodically have to shut down and restart.

I'm considering getting a notebook computer, maybe an IBM Thinkpad for my next machine. It will be useful to get something that's portable.

Fyron · #2 September 8th, 2005, 02:56 AM

That is because the whole win 9x line has really bad memory management. Old blocks are not always cleared properly when programs exit, which leads to high levels of instability.

Atrocities · #3 September 8th, 2005, 09:57 AM

High levels of instability lead to BSOD and OS melt downs.

narf poit chez BOOM · #4 September 8th, 2005, 12:58 PM

BSOD and OS melt downs lead to Linux or Mac.

(Let's see how far we can take this!

)

TurinTurambar · #5 September 8th, 2005, 10:46 PM

Linux and Mac lead to the dumbing down of world consciusness and an alien overthrow of the status quo...

... aw damn... I pimped it.

narf poit chez BOOM · #6 September 9th, 2005, 02:09 AM

/me whaps Turin.

Kamog · #7 September 9th, 2005, 03:24 AM

Well, Macs are very nice. Many years ago, they were ahead of PC's in many ways. The first computer I bought was a Mac. So was my second. That was a long time ago, in the DOS / Windows 3.1 days. Today I wouldn't buy a Mac and I don't know many people who still use them. They're still very nice machines, though.

parabolize · #8 September 9th, 2005, 05:15 AM

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TurinTurambar said:
Linux and Mac lead to the dumbing down of world consciusness and an alien overthrow of the status quo...

... aw damn... I pimped it.

Please do elaborate. I understand Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, Marcelo Tosatti and David Weinehall are aliens to many nations (though they are not from the same nation) but why does that matter? Do you consider software developers in your nation to be more important? Is Microsofts share of the software market helpful to you in anyway?

El_Phil · #9 September 9th, 2005, 09:07 AM

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parabolize said:

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TurinTurambar said:
Linux and Mac lead to the dumbing down of world consciusness and an alien overthrow of the status quo...

... aw damn... I pimped it.

Please do elaborate. I understand Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, Marcelo Tosatti and David Weinehall are aliens to many nations (though they are not from the same nation) but why does that matter? Do you consider software developers in your nation to be more important? Is Microsofts share of the software market helpful to you in anyway?

[Joke]
Macs are only used by artist and journalists, who are clearly all leftist 5th columnists. Linux, with it's thrice damned 'open source' ideals could never be thought of by an all-american capitalist as it is so very communist. Thus the use of Macs or Linux will lead to the triumph of global communism, which will kill us all. All of us do you hear?!

[/Joke]