Have any of you people made Windows 7 your primary OS yet?

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I'd consider making Windows 7 my primary operating system only if I were able to test it out first to see if it was as good as people are saying it is.

Are any of you people currently using Windows 7 as your primary OS?

I did for about two days. For a windows based OS, that's a long arsed time. It was... vista-like really. But better. It had a lot of the speed of a OSX install, but the windows layout that M$ people have come to know and love. I used it back when it was an internal beta and it was quite stable, though I'm not completely up to speed on any changes that may have been made.

If you have a computer that's somewhat new, you should have a recovery partition, just backup everything and install. It won't eat your recovery if you're careful.

Based on the quote at the end of my post, i would say.... no.

Been running the Windows 7 beta on my laptop for months now.
Seems to work OK small problem my old laptop doesn't have Vista graphics drivers so media playback is rubbish but I have no doubt it works OK on more up to date hardware. My usual run of apps seem to run OK Open office, Firefox, PMview, Paint Shop Pro...

How much hard-drive space did the Windows 7 installation consume (excluding software installed post-installation)?

My friend has been using and loving Windows 7 since the Beta, and the RC is supposed to be quite stable. But for me, the 64-bit version wouldn't boot, and I'm not interested in the 32-bit version. UNIX-based operating systems are better anyways, I think.

I wiped my HDD, which was dual-booted Ubuntu 8.10 and Mac OS X 10.5.6, so I could dual-boot Mac OS X 10.5.6 and Windows 7.
Windows 7 has been pretty good for me up to now, but in all honesty, the only reason I installed it was to play my XP-based games(i.e Halo CE), and they're pretty laggy, tbh...
Overall I like it, but I haven't used it for more than a day in total. It doesn't have Pixelmator, which as of now I'm relying on to do all my graphic design work on(I'm not a graphic designer as such but often get asked by friends to do forum signatures and stuff for them, and I just love messing around, so I spend a couple of hours a day on it), which is Mac OS X(10.4+, I believe) only. Also, my external HDD with ALL my media on is HFS+ formatted, and I'm trying not to pirate stuff(only driver that works is Mac Drive which costs money) xD.
But it seems pretty stable, tbh. I've not had any problems.
EMZ=]

I actually might switch to Windows 7 when I purchase a new computer. I don't think it would be very logical to install it on this lower-end PC since all I'd probably notice is a slight speed decrease due to the extra resources being used up.

I'm a bit hesitant to install an OS with a built-in expiration date...

Same here. I've heard Windows 7 is a little better than Vista, but not by much. I dual boot Ubuntu & XP for now - I just hope the security updates continue to roll out for XP.

Every OS has an expiration date in that none of them will be supported forever.

Good point; should've seen that coming.

But they won't auto shut down after 2 hours.

Hiss!

No, they'll be quite happy to run as long as you like with numerous unpatched security holes. They also won't run any modern software, and any time you run into a problem you can't find any help or advice since no one runs it any more. Add to that not being able to use new hardware, as no one is going to keep writing device drivers for an outdated OS.

Windows Vista Basic/Home has a RAM limit of 8GB ... Vista Ultimate/Business has a limit of 128GB
This means you need a 64bit processor to get access beyond the 4GB boundary. The maximum memory 64bit can support is 16ExaBytes or 16,000,000GB. Probably less will be seen as you get closer to the boundary. So what will Windows Seven limit be?

Why on earth wipe your hard drive of Mac OS and Ubuntu so you can use Windows Seven? Ubuntu has GRUB so you can triple boot. Or in my case, Hexaboot (if that exists)