Back to Windows

Well I spent the best part of 2 years running OpenSuse 11.x and found it was really good, fast and easily understood and very capable (if you are willing to put in a bit of effort or even ask people). The big problems that I had with Linux was were twofold - games and iPods. Linux has games, some of them quite good, but not the ones I wanted to play (doh!), and my iPod - well Banshee dealt with it quiet well, album art etc, but.....no gapless playback (oh dear oh dear...).

So when Windows 7 appeared, and was meant to be way better than Vista I thought that I would give it a go. So far it has been a good choice, fast (ish), stylish, and capable, and the games I want and the iPod support (iTunes - does its job, but Banshee, Amarok, Songbird etc are better - mostly).

At the moment I have Win7, and a lot of purchased software (Linux is so much cheaper.....) and can do most of what I was able to do under Linux (so I now have OpenSuse 11.2 running in a Virtualbox for all those things I cant do without).

I don't actually want to like Windows 7 but it is very good. As I type I am watching a film on TV in Windows Media Centre, and have all the other stuff running that I normally have with very few glitches or pauses.

There are a few things to get used to like Libraries, virtualised directories, which of course are a virtualised presentation of the files anyway......one can only hope that this is a sort of parallel abstraction rather than a doubling up......

Windows 7 - for the moment it has me hooked.