Dual-Boot?

How many of you are using Win 7 AND Win XP or Vista?

If so, how often do you use the older version of Windows?

I'm dual-booting between Win 7 and XP, but I just can't bring myself back to XP all that often. It was fine before, but now I kinda despise it now. :shrug:

 

I have both Windows Vista Premium and Windows 7 installed in my computer in a dual-boot situation. I haven't booted into Windows Vista since January.

My average up time on Windows 7 is about 16 days but it only gets rebooted if it needs to do so for a software update. I have a second computer at my feet with Linux installed on it. It hasn't been booted up in about 6 months. I switched my home development server to IIS 7 under Windows 7 and haven't gone back to Apache.

 

I've run into a few bugs here and there on Win 7 RC and had to reboot, but it doesn't happen very often.

With the number of applications I run at the same time (hefty ones, too), and the number of Firefox windows and tabs I have open, I'm not surprised that I bring this machine to a halt every once in a while.

The only reasons I need to go back to XP Pro now are for my scanner (which won't matter as I'll be hooking it up to Mark's computer) and 3ds MAX, which is a pretty old version and WILL NOT install on a 64-bit OS.

What makes that even more difficult is that 3ds MAX and Photoshop go hand-in-hand, and since I loaded CS3 on my Win 7 partition, my activation on my XP Pro partition has been de-activated.

 

Running 7 RC (since early beta) as the sole OS for both the laptop and the Desktop.

With the Vista beta/RC's, I had XP / Vista Dual Booted, and rarely logged into Vista, because of the old(er) setup I had.

With 7, I put it on the laptop, tried it for a few hours, found it to address all the (few) Vista issues there were with the laptop, and moved both onto 7 completely.

Why dual boot, really, especially with Vista/7 taking up average 10G just to install any more? Sure, drive space is cheap, but that's still 10G that you could put somewhere else.

 

I dual-boot because of compatibility issues, both with equipment and older (and EXPENSIVE) software.

Trust me, I'd LOVE to drop XP, and would in a heartbeat, but I still have those last two threads keeping me from doing it.

 

I dual boot OSX 10.4 and OSX 10.1 I never use the 10.1 because its useless and has nothing on there.

 

I dual boot Ubuntu and Windows XP, I should be shifting to Windows 7 when its out but I wont hold myself to that

 

Out of sheer curiosity, what is the advantage to using Linux on your home computer?

 

Absolutely none for me right now, I only use it say once every 4-5 months and its not even for development

 

I don't see why you would use Linux for home use... unless you don't have the money for Windows.

 

I have a friend that uses Ubuntu on a daily basis for everything, he has more than enough money for windows he just prefers linux operating systems. The only time he uses Windows is for Photoshopping.

 

Install Microsoft Virtual-PC and "Windows XP Mode" in your Windows 7 installation.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/

That is a cruddy thing for Adobe to do. If the hardware hash is the same then it shouldn't matter how many operating systems are on the same machine.

 

Downloading now!

If this works, you, sir, are a life saver!

I totally agree, and it seems that even Microsoft will allow you to have Office on two OSs on the same machine. I had no problem installing it on my Win7 partition even though I had to call them to allow me to install it on our netbook.

 

My computer is dual boot windows 2000 and xp pro.

I rarely boot to windows 2000 anymore

 

Gah... the first operating system I ever used Windows 2000. Fantastic at the time, awful now though tbh.

 

Windows 2000 is probably the best OS microsoft ever made. Its light weight, low cpu and memory footprint.

And if I could find driver support for win2k, I would still be using it.

 

You should try Windows 7... As I posted in a thread on another forum, I don't close applications anymore under Windows 7. They just run in the background. If I need an application, I just switch to it. On average I am running 90-100 processes and applications at time. My computer is just about 2 years old with a dual-core processor at 2.63 GHz per core, 6 GB of RAM, and a 500 GB harddrive at 3/gigabits per second.

It worked fine using Windows Vista. Installing Windows 7 was like buying a new computer.

 

I quadruple boot

- OS X Snow Leopard (used 95% of the time)
- Windows 7 RC (for gaming only)

In VMWare Fusion virtual machines:
- Windows XP Pro (for browser testing compatibility + apps that I might need to use natively on my Mac)
- Ubuntu 9 (for a laugh + browser support)

 

I've been considering installing Linux, but I just don't know why I would need to do it, other than just to say that I do. :shrug:

 

lol
I started out using Linux for years. No Windows, nothing of the like.
Then, I realized that for a home system, Windows is a much better choice, everything is developed for windows, instead of me having to compile everything and guess what flags go where, whether or not it'll work with my drivers/distro.

Admittedly, that was some 6,7 years ago. Now I use windows @ home, and Linux for servers. Great combination.