Do you use XP as a Main OS?

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Jake1702

Hey guys!

Do you use Windows XP as a normal everyday OS or as a sometimes dual-boot or a VM? (Virtual Machine).

I use it as a Virtual Machine, but I might do a dual boot with my Windows 7 because the VM only gets like 1/4 of the CPU power and therefore can do less things at one time and can be slow sometimes.
 
That depends. Nowadays, it's pretty impossible to find a computer that has XP drivers.

Anyways, to answer your question: My system is currently triple booting XP/Win7/Win8.1 (not inside VMs). I spend 95% of my time on XP.

Why?

I want raw computing power. A Skylake on Win10 (or 8.1) probably performs worse than my system on XP...
 
Frattulman said:
OS X for me. I have an old pc with xp though (mostly keep it for old games). Also have xp in virtualbox.
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Never saw the appeal of Apple. I have a Windows PC made in Japan (obviously the parts inside came from China, but the rest manufactured in Japan). Even says so on the sticker at the bottom. Best computer I've ever owned...
 
Frattulman said:
I like HP.
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My made-in-Japan computer. The keyboard is silky smooth:

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Going back to my Dell laptop made me realize how its crude keyboard (rubber springs) hurt my fingertips typing (compared to the Fujitsu above...)


Why I like Fujitsu more than any other brand PC: Beside the defunct IBM PC's, Fujitsu is the only one on the world's fastest supercomputers list at spot #5:




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^ Btw, you'll never catch me owning a Toshiba or VAIO. A Panasonic maybe, but not those two. Those aren't really "Japanese" companies. They only care about profits so they've lost their "Japanese" essence. Fujitsu on the other hand... is an innovator in computing. They've had convertible tablets for years before the iPad caught on...
 
cornemuse said:
XP here too.

You can find motherboards that will support XP, build your own, , , , (<-what I do)

-c-
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Just to show u guys how f**ked up Win7+ are. I have a .NET program that reads enormous data from the HDD. I do a little house keeping once in a while to keep the data manageable. Haven't done a cleanup recently. "XYZ program has stopped working," says Win7. (And this only at the loading stage where it processes the enormous HDD data b4 program can accept user input.) I close it and attempt to restart the program... Same friggin msg shows up. Meanwhile, the same ".exe" works flawlessly in XP! :mad:


This why I'll never own a computer that doesn't run XP. XP just works too good too fast to be given up for the shite OSes that came after it...
 
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I had to re-read that post by cornemuse. First time round, I took it to mean building your own motherboard. That took me back to the 1970's, when, if you had a home computer, it was most likely because you had made it rather than purchased it.

Not assembling items as per modern day PC building: it was soldering iron or wire wrap, etching your own PCB, and usually adopting some kind of card and bus system to modularise your construction.

I enjoyed that era greatly. Had thought of building a similar thing, now in my retirement, but the extensive families of TTL type and CMOS chips that you created the glue logic from are not as widely available today.
 
$34.99 + shipping. One setting change in bios. install XP Pro. No floppies etc.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128696&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-Skimlinks-_-na-_-na-_-na&AID=12087162&PID=5412144&SID=skim19619X769413X2f07b093ba11618e123747a3b765a081&utm_medium=affiliates&utm_source=afc-Skimlinks

CPU was about $30, (Athlon). 4 gig ddr3 $15, (<-Frys Elec. 2x4 gig = $29.99)

No case yet, spread out on the table right now. XPP-32 bit works fine, not tried -64 yet, , ,

Last 'new' computer was a laptop 5-6 yrs ago.

-c-
 
Mobo box, printed on box: supports XP-Pro, , , , , quite a few marked thusly.

$1.88 sata to ide adapter, use all those old ide hdd's, at least as fast as (pre sata) computers. Well, maybe not 'Cray' computers!! (<- I knew a kid when he was eleven yrs old got computer time on the "new" Cray computer at UC San Diego. His mom had to take him in at like 01:00 - 05:00 in the morning, , )

(end rant) -c-
 
Jake1702 said:
Hey guys!

Do you use Windows XP as a normal everyday OS or as a sometimes dual-boot or a VM? (Virtual Machine).

I use it as a Virtual Machine, but I might do a dual boot with my Windows 7 because the VM only gets like 1/4 of the CPU power and therefore can do less things at one time and can be slow sometimes.
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I use it in a VM and almost everyday
 
Jake1702 said:
Hey guys!

Do you use Windows XP as a normal everyday OS or as a sometimes dual-boot or a VM? (Virtual Machine).

I use it as a Virtual Machine, but I might do a dual boot with my Windows 7 because the VM only gets like 1/4 of the CPU power and therefore can do less things at one time and can be slow sometimes.
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For the last three+ years I have used XP Pro as the main OS, with occasional use of MX Linux in LiveCD mode for online shopping/banking. This year I will be shifting to Win 7 as the main OS, until I can crush the CA nazis and their 101 certificate errors, which requires my computer tech to crawl out from under his bed, grow a spine, and defy Commissar Newsom's lockdown decree. Unlikely, so I expect I'd have to deal with it til at least after November. I will be switching to Win 7 for the interim. Once I can get the skittish little deer to do a housecall, install a master security certificate to overrule all the others, or a MITMproxy with SSL/TLS stripping capability, I will return to XP, and use the Win 7 for airgapping or maybe a homebrew VPN.
 
XP is my main OS

I installed XP in 2006 and have the exact system that I installed in 2006 still running fast. I always Ghosted the system before installing new hardware just in case.

Huge amount of updates are required to get the system to do everything a Windows 7 will do out of the box, but then over 14 years you hardly notice.

If you choose decent Motherboards like SuperMicro – they are still supplying drivers for XP from the website.
https://www.supermicro.com/support/resources/resource_drivers.cfm

Likewise Nvidia and GeForce are supplying XP drivers.

It is mostly the software venders that limit the installation of their products.

For instance I still use Adobe Acrobat XI Pro, Adobe Photoshop CS6 and CyberLink PowerDirector 12. I am stuck with AutoCad 2012 and Revit 2013, but they work fine.

I use Office 2007, but over the last year started using Office 2016 on a remote Win 7 machine. So I can really use later software if needed in a windowed remote desktop.

I switched over to a copper base Dell 1737 with a dual core 2.8 as my Win 7 machine and it boots on lan from my main XP machine – so in effect is just like having another couple of CPU’s. Very useful when downloading as has different MAC and IP.

I think the people that Run XP as there main machine – probably do so because they have to.

I have certain programs and hardware that will not run on Win 7 or later. For instance SuperWriter32 and some proprietary engineering software. I was using a GA2000 plus for years it cost over £5000 and £500 per year to calibrate, but Geotechnical Instruments didn’t release drivers for Win 7 so in effect a lot of valuable hardware was made scrap. It still downloads and works on my XP and the company gave these away, as they eventually migrated to Win 7.
 
Jake1702 said:
Hey guys!

Do you use Windows XP as a normal everyday OS or as a sometimes dual-boot or a VM? (Virtual Machine).

I use it as a Virtual Machine, but I might do a dual boot with my Windows 7 because the VM only gets like 1/4 of the CPU power and therefore can do less things at one time and can be slow sometimes.
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i used to have xp as my main system in 2018 and 2017
i enjoyed it
but it was hard to find software that was compatible with it
however having a old ass hp desktop as your main computer really helps because you can find drivers very quickly and enjoy the true xp experience
 
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