Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-5641163-20150522174501/@comment-3547390-20150524004227

You are quite right, Windows 7 is much better, especially in regards to stability and memory management. I honestly have been spoiled by it the last few years, anything else feels like a resource hog.

Yeah, if I had to spend a bunch of time converting something, I might as well use the real thing. Charm bars, lock screens, metro, the start menu with its fullscreen apps that require you to drag to the bottom or alt-f4 to close them...

I guess I prefer having privacy and have no real need to have my folders opening at the exact same location. If I needed to keep accessing a certain thing, I would either have something in my start menu or desktop to make it quicker to access, folders would be pretty pointless. On the other hand, I would miss Aero Snap when switching to a lower version of Windows, that is a feature I basically cannot live without at this point and find myself constantly using. Aero shake is pretty worthless, as is the other aero trick, but aero snap is one of the best features of Windows 7 and one major reason to upgrade from any older system.

You are right, it is so rare to see a company actually change their opinion based on user feedback. Almost all user feedback to this Wikia update has been pretty negative, as have the last four or five updates, yet Wikia doesn't seem to care beyond their messages that state they listen to all feedback. I swear they copy-paste the same messages based on admins virtually saying the same things to different people in the same fashion. As for Windows 10, it just sounds like a thing made a bit closer to Windows 7, which still gives me the question of "why should I upgrade?".

Yes, the back-end is still pretty good. There were some features of Windows 8 I liked that were more technical, such as being able to load a command prompt from any application via a simple button. Of course, it didn't help that turning off the computer was made so much worse and the flickering of Metro looked absolutely horrible (I am an Aero fan for sure, I see transparent being an improvement to solid colors).

Hey, you could stick with any OS you wanted to, so I will stick with Windows 7 until something decent comes out. I never understood the purpose of the small quicktools, in fact I had them disabled on XP, and I found the large number of tabs to get in my way. I actually enjoy the design of the Windows 7 taskbar, feeling it captures accessibility pretty quickly. It takes a few seconds to pin a useful program, I don't feel I have redundant programs on my taskbar, and usually only a few programs are open at a time.

I did notice you using IE and just wondered if you didn't bother much with browsers, though that sounded odd when you mentioned your position. Personally, I use a lesser known browser called Maxthon that basically can run either Webkit or Trident, meaning I get the best of both for compatibility. I have heard that IE loads quicker, though it seems slower when it comes to loading pages. I would rather a slow startup and fast navigation compared to the other way around, I don't close something down only to open it up two seconds later.

Actually, that philosophy is basically how my entire computer works. My computer is ridiculously unstable, takes a few moments to start up, and has a fan that is constantly overworking. At the same time, I manage to get a computer that is extremely fluid once it has started (a lot of the programs are various things that allow more functionality like virtual hard drives).

You are speaking to a believer, I use Windows 7 and don't believe in anything else. I have played around with OS up to Windows 95, the more recent ones especially in regards to fixing and troubleshooting, though my strength is definitely with my favorite OS. Windows 8 is when I start pitying the person, I basically try to warn everybody off getting that one. I have never actually tried Windows 8.1, but it sounds like the fixes just did things that Windows 7 already did. The fixes also didn't sound like it fixed stuff that bothered me like Metro's flickering when selecting windows, the solid coloring of everything, the charm bar, the lock screen. Actually, it felt like what Wikia was trying to do, make an atmosphere more suited for tablet users and apply it to widescreen desktops...