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| | | | Thayenga 
Germany
Local time: 04:51
Member (2009)
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That's my operating system and... I'm sticking to it.
| | | | Julian Holmes
Japan
Local time: 11:51
Member (2011)
Japanese to English
Thayenga wrote: That's my operating system and... I'm sticking to it.
Me, too
All the programs I use are tried-and-tested in XP and I am not going to "upgade" to a new OS that in most cases requires more purchases and more memory, and whose stability while using upgraded programs hasn't been proven to me yet.
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| | | | Mary Worby
United Kingdom
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Win7 is fine, but my main OS remains XP. In my opinion XP is a bit more predictable and more 'worked to completion' compared to Win7. Some program and some equipment I use do not work with Win7. At the same time Win7 does have her own great advantages.
| | | | Michael Harris
Germany
Local time: 04:51
Member (2006)
German to English
Although I also have a new laptop with XP on it for one specific customer as their own software only runs on that, but never mind.
I find Win 7 okay, but recently, on all my computers, I have been having trouble with the automatic update function - no virus!! - where it does not install the updates it has just installed when it boots - any ideas?
HP - oh, just reinstall Windows, that is the quickest way to solve the problem - great help!!
| | | | | Happy with Windows 7 | Nov 26, 2012 |
I might skip Windows 8 since it is (mostly) designed for tablets.
| | | | esperantisto
Local time: 05:51
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SITE LOCALIZER | openSUSE Linux | Nov 26, 2012 |
After years with MS-DOS/Windows, I’m fed up with security holes, crashes and blue screens of death, incompatibilities, lacks of drivers, reinstallations etc. With Linux, computing is much more comfortable.
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B D Finch
France
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| Not just the OS | Nov 26, 2012 |
esperantisto wrote:
After years with MS-DOS/Windows, I’m fed up with security holes, crashes and blue screens of death, incompatibilities, lacks of drivers, reinstallations etc. With Linux, computing is much more comfortable.
I was thinking the same as my desktop PC with Windows XP was, about three months ago, becoming unusable and constantly giving me blue screens. I had bought a new notebook PC with Windows 7, so had a backup when I tried drastic treatment to the desktop PC and creating a new user profile as my old one had become hopelessly corrupted. I have Norton 360 and asked Norton for help as I thought I probably had a virus. After I realised how completely useless the Norton techie was who had told me Norton couldn't help and that my Windows OS was corrupted, I decided to just try one more little thing and uninstalled Norton. I removed every last scrap of it from my PC and installed Avast instead and hey presto! my PC now runs really fast, everything works as it should and I haven't had a blue screen in three months.
I haven't had much reason to try out my notebook PC with Windows 7 for work yet, but know I should as Microsoft will get me to shell out more money by stopping support for XP. As my desktop is only 32 bit and can't run Windows 7, that will mean it will need replacing. Does anyone remember the good old days when a typewriter could last 50 years or more?
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| | | | Simon Bruni
United Kingdom
Local time: 03:51
Member (2009)
Spanish to English
And it's the first I have thought a new OS represents a significant improvement over its predecessors. It just makes more sense. I found XP to be an annoying and cumbersome beast.
| | | | Heinrich Pesch
Finland
Local time: 05:51
Member (2003)
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| I'm astonished at low figure for Linux | Nov 26, 2012 |
Only 0.6 percent are using Linux. I would have expected much higher figure. I use now MS 7, never any problems with Windows after version 98, which was rather bad.
| | | | neilmac
Spain
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XP is still my main and preferred OS. I also have two laptops with W7 in them, but I hate it. I wouldn't mind if they had left the menus in the same place as they were in XP, which I've used for several years and am accustomed to, but no, they had to "improve" them and replace them with the fiddly ribbon-type interface. I resent being force-fed anything unasked for that involves me having to spend time learning how to use it, especially when it's without being given an option.
OK, so W7 ... See more XP is still my main and preferred OS. I also have two laptops with W7 in them, but I hate it. I wouldn't mind if they had left the menus in the same place as they were in XP, which I've used for several years and am accustomed to, but no, they had to "improve" them and replace them with the fiddly ribbon-type interface. I resent being force-fed anything unasked for that involves me having to spend time learning how to use it, especially when it's without being given an option.
OK, so W7 is more stable and has more bells and whistles, but my CD dictionaries and other software won't work on its 64-bit platform, and I don't like the menu interfaces in the MS Office applications (especially Word) that come with W7, so I intend to keep working with XP and earlier versions of Office for as long as possible.
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| And who are the N/As? | Nov 26, 2012 |
I'd be interested to hear how they connected to the page to do the poll...
| | | | | Xubuntu Linux | Nov 26, 2012 |
Been using it for a few years now as my only OS. Used to be a WinXP user, but I got fed up with all that malware making its way into my computer.
| | | | Tobias Ernst
Germany
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| Business case for Linux difficult to construct | Nov 27, 2012 |
I was a UNIX admin and a Mac OS and Linux fan before becoming a translator. I switched to Windows (2000 back then) when I became a translator and sticked to it since.
For a translator, it is difficult to construct a business case for Linux. The thing is that when using Linux you restrict yourself application-wise. You cannot use certain Office products, you cannot use certain CAT tools, you cannot use most electronic dictionaries, while the reverse is not true - all relevant tools t... See more I was a UNIX admin and a Mac OS and Linux fan before becoming a translator. I switched to Windows (2000 back then) when I became a translator and sticked to it since.
For a translator, it is difficult to construct a business case for Linux. The thing is that when using Linux you restrict yourself application-wise. You cannot use certain Office products, you cannot use certain CAT tools, you cannot use most electronic dictionaries, while the reverse is not true - all relevant tools that are available for Linux are also available for Windows.
For many industries, this restriction is not a big problem and sometimes it is an advantage. When you have a set workflow and when your contacts are interested specifically in your work results, or when you work in an environment that exclusively relies on open standards, you can afford to use software that is not mainstream. In many positions, you only work with a very restricted set of file formats, so you can craft your workflow to match those.
As a freelance translator, however, you have a constantly changing set of clients, file formats and so on that you work with. Freelance translating is all about working with the most diverse set of file formats and documents. If you switch to Linux you artificially restrict yourself to a lesser number of possible file formats for documents, translation memories etc., which means less possibilities to generate well-paid income.
The fact that I am highly specialised and have made it a policy to charge prices that are sustainable in my home country, i.e. that are much above the running average, already severely limit the number of clients that are able to afford my services. I do not want artificial software limitations to further restrict the number of clients I am able to work for.
Now of course you can use Wine, VMware and so on to run Windows programs on Linux. However, that makes sense when you need Windows programs for 25% or less of the work you are doing. However, for me, it is 95 % of my work that in one way or another relies on a Windows application (and if it is only one of my Windows-only specialized dictionaries). So installing Linux only to run Windows in an emulator or VM did not make sense to me. Back in the times when Windows 3.x/95 was unstable and virus-prone like hell it made some sense to have a sound UNIX foundation and a virtual Windows layer on top of that. However back in those days processors were not really powerful enough for fast virtualization. My solution back than was OS/2 which was able to run Windows 3.11 applications to get a stable basis. Nowadays, processors are powerful enough for doing everyday work inside a VM, but Windows also has become much more secure and stable. With Windows 7 and a bit of self-discipline, you keep your machine stable without having to use virtualization.
So, sad as it is, it is Windows for me. Of course with Cygwin and with a Linux VM and a Linux hardware machine sitting round the corner for playing, experiments or when I translate something that actually is about Linux. But Windows is my everyday working horse. Oh yes, and I have embedded Linux on my router and my NAS.
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