Lemur's New Rig

**Tellos Athenaios** · 01-08-2014, 00:33

Windows is annoying by default, though bearable. A large part of that is the cluelessness of the 3rd party developers who seem intent on committing every cardinal sin, crime against humanity and inventing new ways to make your life miserable. There is no need for Microsoft to add to that, yet they do. Oh they do.

As for annoying: Windows 8 runs two graphical subsystems side by side. While you could run Windows 7 and previous in a VM and merely shake your head in disgust at the sheer awfulness of its performance; now you can't shake your head anymore for fear of making the VM hang if you look at it funny.

**Xiahou** · 01-08-2014, 02:43

Interesting though it is, the discussion of Windows 8(.1)'s merits (or lack of) probably should have their own topic rather than junking up this thread about Lemur's PC build...

If people want to continue the discussion, I'd be happy to split the last few posts into a different topic.

**Myth** · 01-15-2014, 09:30

I'm sticking with Windows 7 until the next one comes along. It's my experience that they are always a hit and miss version. 95 - huge improvement over 3.11, 98 - nothing new, apart from maybe FAT32. 2000/NT were server versions so I exclude them. XP - awesome. Vista - complete bollocks. 7 - awesome. 8 - the only new stuff I see is aweful compared to 7 (I just have the one monitor anyway). So I'm waiting for 9 or whatever they call it.

Also, an unrelated picture:

**Ja'chyra** · 05-28-2014, 14:31

Lemur

How did you get on with your hybrid drive, I'm thinking of getting one till the SSDs get a bit cheaper, I run my OS from a SSD but was going to move to hybrid for my music and videos.

Thanks

**Lemur** · 05-31-2014, 01:38

The hybrid drive is actually meant for the kids' computer. My storage drive in the big boxen is actually a bog-standard WD drive.

Hybrid drives are nice if you don't want to plonk down for a sizeable SSD, but you want to give a laptop or a desktop a bit of oomph.

**ICantSpellDawg** · 06-07-2014, 22:20

I never knew what was so different about linux. I had never fully understood the difference between an operating system and a user interface - believing that a UI was simply a component of an OS, but now I do and it makes all the difference in the world.

**Lemur** · 06-08-2014, 00:01

Originally Posted by ICantSpellDawg

I never knew what was so different about linux. I had never fully understood the difference between an operating system and a user interface - believing that a UI was simply a component of an OS, but now I do and it makes all the difference in the world.

Well, in fairness, the UI is a component of the OS. That ain't wrong.

Tried to find a handy graphic that would illustrate the architectural differences between Windows and Unix. Failed. I'll look again later.

Meanwhile, here's a rather opinionated (but not inaccurate) summary of 10 differences between Linux and Windows. Not really the comprehensive 40,000-foot view I was looking for ...

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Also note that Linux is just one variant on Unix. Here's a family tree that might help clarify where all of the bits and pieces come from, their heritage, their parentage, and so forth.