Comments on: How 4sysops readers like Windows Vista and Windows 7

By: Lazy Programmer

Lazy Programmer — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:28:02 +0000

What is amazing is the low number of Linux users. Given the amazingly poor job Microsoft did with Vista (it really was a huge screw up from end to end), and fantastic user experience w/ KDE 4.3 (great story on CNET about Window’s users review when they didn’t know it was Linux), ability to run most Windows XP software w/ WINE 1.0 w/ native performance (and often better stability). You would have thought a more educated and computer savy group would have seen the writing on the wall and at least set up a virtual machine (VirtualBox, etc.) and tried out OpenSUSE 11.1/KDE 4.3.

Just because Microsoft is currently the dominant monopoloy doesn’t mean you cannot try something new.

By: Michael Pietroforte

Michael Pietroforte — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:20:19 +0000

Mathieu, thanks for the tip. I haven’t tried eAccelerator, but I’ve spent a lot of time with wp-cache. In the end I gave up because it caused too many problems with dynamic content. Next time I have performance problems I will check out eAccelerator.

By: Mathieu Chateau

Mathieu Chateau — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:54:04 +0000

Did you try with php module eaccelerator ?
It boosted up a lot my wordpress instance running on a VM

By: Michael Pietroforte

Michael Pietroforte — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:50:13 +0000

moiecoute, well Vista usage is much higher among 4sysops readers than among all other Windows users. But I expected a much high percentage of Vista users among Windows admins.

Keith, I am using XP often in test environments which made me realize how big the difference is to Vista. The major reason why I never bought netbook was because I couldn’t imagine to work with XP again.

Andrew, good point. I will check the statistics again in a few months. We will then see if you are right.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:00:13 +0000

“…is that Vista never surpassed XP”
I think this needs to be rechecked once Win7 goes public, as I believe more XP users will move to 7 – leaving XP behind Vista. Not that this is relevant, because then both will fall under the same “older versions” category.

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:35:16 +0000

I forgot to mention that since switching to Vista when it RTM’d, I couldn’t go back to using XP as my main OS. There are too many things in Vista/Win7 that I like, Start menu searching being one of them.

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:33:52 +0000

I’m with you Michael. I used Vista as my primary OS from the time it went RTM until Windows 7 went Beta. Vista RTM was a little annoying, but post SP1 I never had any issues with it. I am, however, quite happy to be moving on to Windows 7 as it’s been working great!

By: moiecoute

moiecoute — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:21:17 +0000

Stop baiting us Michael

In a way it is not surprising that Vista usage was so high.

New computers for a while now have only sold only with Vista so we must keep that in mind. Some people would have also gone to Vista following the last service pack.

On the flipside XP has been around for some time and there are lots of people who won’t upgrade for reasons covered in other threads.

Windows 7 for me also isn’t surprising. I speak only about myself here that I want something graphic rich that is fast and stable and Windows 7 is new and promises that.