Quote Originally Posted by Tellos Athenaios View Post
What puzzles me is that there are people considering to go back to XP even then. It's so fricking long in the tooth that it basically expects you to have a floppy drive.

Oh, you don't have 3.5Mb floppies lying around for the inevitable SATA drivers you will need? Oh, you don't actually know the exact SATA/AHCI drivers you will need for your specific harddrive? Oh, you find that they stopped making XP drivers for this new hardware you will own by the time you get round to do that jump backwards? Oh, you find that they stopped shipping XP? Oh... Oh, well.

... And that is before the enjoyable experience of watching the directory layout on the system partition. Oh my...

What? You didn't ever know about the floppies and the drivers and the mess? You just got it pre-installed, pre-configured, with a load of adverts?

... I guess watching from the BIOS how the system clock ticks away the seconds of battery life left in it should prove fun too.
Seriously guys. Stop dreaming and start living. If your PC came with Vista, don't burn cash buying 7, and don't be idiots and try to pirate. If yours came with 7, give yourself a pat on the back. If certain apps don't work, too bad.