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I didn't watch the video....but based on experience & observation I'd say XP would be the winner.<--- Badcaps.net Founder
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Originally posted by Topcat View PostI didn't watch the video....but based on experience & observation I'd say XP would be the winner.Cap Datasheet Depot: http://www.paullinebarger.net/DS/
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Originally posted by Topcat View PostI didn't watch the video....but based on experience & observation I'd say XP would be the winner.Don't buy those $10 PSU "specials". They fail, and they have taken whole computers with them.
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Originally posted by Uranium-235 View PostIt's a video of all the OS's month by month
Originally posted by TechGeek View PostI'd say that it's a tossup between XP and 7.<--- Badcaps.net Founder
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I don't count mobile OSes in marketshare figures against desktop OSes. Totally different device classes, so mobile and desktop OSes shouldn't be in the same set of figures IMO.
Personally, I think that while XP was one of the best, its usability has started to suffer a bit on modern hardware due to lack of drivers, etc. 7 can still enjoy plenty of use, but you're pretty much limited to FF as far as supported browsers go, and on older hardware, FF Quantum is a bit of a dog.
IMO, if you want good software support on older hardware, *nix is your best choice. I'm dailying a Latitude E6520 with Debian Testing, and my 4th gen i7 workstation at home is still getting along quite nicely, though I've got the board maxed out in pretty much all aspects, so the next big step is either an X99 coreswap or a full Ryzen rebuild.Don't buy those $10 PSU "specials". They fail, and they have taken whole computers with them.
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Originally posted by TechGeek View PostI don't count mobile OSes in marketshare figures against desktop OSes. Totally different device classes, so mobile and desktop OSes shouldn't be in the same set of figures IMO.<--- Badcaps.net Founder
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Originally posted by TechGeek View PostPersonally, I think that while XP was one of the best, its usability has started to suffer a bit on modern hardware due to lack of drivers, etc.
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I haven't watched the video (yet), but I too guessed XP as soon as I read the title of this thread.
Reason being: XP came out in the early 2000's, when mobile devices (and their OSes) were practically non-existent. It wasn't until about 2007-2008 when the first iPhone came out that people started replacing their PCs entirely with "smart" phones. Before that, there were only the Blackberries that were considered somewhat of a "smart" phone. While they were nice for what they did, they were usually just a mobile "gadget" given to people with office jobs as an additional / supplement device to their office PCs (most of which were still running XP, even well past the introduction of Vista.)
Originally posted by Topcat View PostActually they should. The video is accurate. The mobile device is replacing the PC as we know it and thus a valid statistic in this comparison.
Originally posted by TechGeek View PostPersonally, I think that while XP was one of the best, its usability has started to suffer a bit on modern hardware due to lack of drivers, etc.
It's really just down to browser support.
I still haven't tested how the new Quantum-based Mypal browser works on XP. But if it works just as well as FF Quantum, that should bring many more years of usability to any XP fleet.
Originally posted by TechGeek View PostFF Quantum is a bit of a dog.
I'm running FF Quantum on several old dual-core PCs, and only the ones with older IDE or mid-late-2000's HDDs seem to suffer. The ones with late 250 GB WD Blues (or equivalently-fast drives) tend to load pretty quickly... and once loaded, I hardly get any performance issues.
So for the PCs with slower HDDs, I usually also run Pale Moon (if running Win7) or Pale Moon -based Mypal (if running XP.)
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