There is No Win in Windows 7; just D'ohs

I've 'up'graded to windows 7.

With double the RAM as my old desktop, it runs the very same.  And that's disappointing.

I have a whole series of upgrades I need to get through, but with the time available to me and the things I need to get done the new Vid card and Power Supply and the HDD relocation needs to wait.  If it involves cabling or major components it's just not happening.  Maybe next week.

I'm glad it's able to use my 8800GT video card with two monitors and not have the annoying problem where every pop-up dialogue is bifurcated.  I'm able to make win7 look like XP enough that it should work for me;  just the new routines for doing the same thing is going to be interesting to learn.

And WHAT THE HECK is with the pathetic, rinky-dink voodoo one has to do if one wants to check the config of the network?  Click here, click there, move that, click there, close that, click there and SOME of the information's there.  Some of it may never be available.

This is better than typing 'ifconfig' (interface config) on a unix box?  Really?

Really?

Anyway, we came close to going Apple for our upgrade, but the concern was there about the quality of the Apple OS in recent releases, and how much more they're pushing everyone to the Cloud Junkyard -- which I say as someone who makes a living providing cloud services.  We were worried that we'd soon have no choice but to keep all our personal information in an account with an international organization held captive by the likes of the DMCA and its warrantless seizure problems.  One doesn't have to be a criminal to read where that's gone wrong, time and time again.

That and the migration would have been expensive, and instead of some hand-me-down parts and $200 in new stuff, it would have been $2-3000 worth of completely new stuff.  I'm not into an expensive replacement just yet, and while it was for the best and most logical reasons, Apple intentionally cut themselves out of the commodity hardware market and offer no easy upgrade path.

So it is what it is.  Linux is nowhere near there yet, and half the work tools - and all the games - I use are not available for Linux either.  So an ugly, clunky desktop with no VIClient and no easy WoW is just not gonna work either.  Windows is the only thing left, and that's the only time it's a viable choice, right?