My Desktop

[tholly]

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[Tondog]

It's Gurren Lagann!

[Sirgin]

^ That looks awesome Tondog!

What video game/franchise is that guy from? - I've never seen him before.

[ApolloBoy]

I own one of these, but the one pictured isn't mine.

[James]

Default Windows 7 desktop/theme.

I haven't gone in to a lot of depth with it but it does seem like a good upgrade to XP. It will probably turn out to be a slightly tweaked Vista. I was considering buying Vista recently but then I found out Windows 7 isn't far away.

I set up Media Centre quickly and it worked straight off. But I had installed the OS over an Ubuntu install on a spare hard drive because Ubuntu doesn't agree with me, and I didn't want to mess up my main hard drives, which are disconnected. The Ubuntu partition is only 16GB so it was taken up quickly by Media Centre's live TV recording. I changed the directory to the F:\ drive but it still seems to save live TV to the C:\ drive and I don't know where exactly. Some TV tuning programs save the TV stream to a file as it happens so that it can be rewound and paused.

[Sirgin]

It looks nice. I really hope they'll make it less resource-consuming than Vista.

[logical123]

It looks nice. I really hope they'll make it less resource-consuming than Vista.

Well, this beta actually has slightly less system requirements than XP, so the must have realized that Vista was a resource hog. I actually like the new look. I'll probably find a cheap $250 laptop (1.4ghz or so) and throw Windows 7 on it when it comes out, so that I can bring a laptop to the library, etc.

[Sirgin]

It looks nice. I really hope they'll make it less resource-consuming than Vista.

Well, this beta actually has slightly less system requirements than XP, so the must have realized that Vista was a resource hog. I actually like the new look. I'll probably find a cheap $250 laptop (1.4ghz or so) and throw Windows 7 on it when it comes out, so that I can bring a laptop to the library, etc.

Or you could always put Linux on it, of course.

[James]

Well, this beta actually has slightly less system requirements than XP, so the must have realized that Vista was a resource hog. I actually like the new look. I'll probably find a cheap $250 laptop (1.4ghz or so) and throw Windows 7 on it when it comes out, so that I can bring a laptop to the library, etc.

From what I gather, it's designed to use more memory just because it's there. I have 2GB and it's using about half that at idle. Why have 2GB if only 256MB is ever being used? "Minimum requirements" tend not to mean anything. A game with minimum requirements of, say, a 1.5GHz P4, 256MB, and a 32MB video card woud probably only run at minimum settings, 800x600 and 10fps.

Also, there are going to be special versions of Windows 7 Mobile for laptops and netbooks.

Or you could always put Linux on it, of course.

But Linux sucks whale penis.

[logical123]

Sometimes, but not always. Remember, I was for over 2 years running XP on a PII 450Mhz with 512MB ram, and it worked okay (not great, but it did what i needed it to), and that's well below system requirements.

[Sirgin]

Or you could always put Linux on it, of course.

But Linux sucks whale penis.

Not at all. Linux is a great and free alternative for an average user.

With "average" I mean someone who isn't a gamer, who doesn't need professional music/video/photo programs like Photoshop, Logic, etc...

Ubuntu+Firefox+OpenOffice is all the average user needs.

[logical123]

Or you could always put Linux on it, of course.

But Linux sucks whale penis.

Not at all. Linux is a great and free alternative for an average user.

With "average" I mean someone who isn't a gamer, who doesn't need professional music/video/photo programs like Photoshop, Logic, etc...

Ubuntu+Firefox+OpenOffice is all the average user needs.

Yep. Yep. And Yep.

[The Metamorphosing Leon]

Or you could always put Linux on it, of course.

But Linux sucks whale penis.

Not at all. Linux is a great and free alternative for an average user.

With "average" I mean someone who isn't a gamer, who doesn't need professional music/video/photo programs like Photoshop, Logic, etc...

Ubuntu+Firefox+OpenOffice is all the average user needs.

Maybe all they need, but even I like to doodle around in photoshop once in a while...
Sounds like an apple OS with even less uses, yay!

[Cobra]

Linux users tend to use GIMP, a free alternative to Photoshop. As for Windows compared to OS X I haven't looked back. Even gaming wise, anything of interest to me is available for Mac.

[Sirgin]

Maybe all they need, but even I like to doodle around in photoshop once in a while...
Sounds like an apple OS with even less uses, yay!

You're far from the average user, Leon.

The average user is a person who checks YouTube, his mails and writes a text document three times a year.

Besides (as Cobra said) there are many alternatives for "doodling around" with your photos every once in a while. Of course those alternatives are only half as powerful as Photoshop (or even less) but that's all the average user needs anyway.