Well, it's looking like I might soon be doing one of two drastic things...
A) Giving up a 30 year hobby of writing small but handy programs.
B) Taking my computers back to Windows XP.
Despite all it's really groovy eye candy, Windows 7 is a total nightmare both from the user's and the programmer's standpoint. A significant part of my day is filled with corrupted flash drives, incomplete downloads, slow networking and a miriade of random problems. From a programming standpoint it's like pulling teeth --involuntarily!-- every programming session leaves me feeling beat up and disappointed. Even the simplest things --like making a file association-- have been complicated to the point of no return... and quite frankly I'm thinking about not coming back.
On XP it was so easy... fire up the box, download some stuff, copy it to flash drives... load up the compiler and tap out some code for my own amusement... and it all "just worked".
To give some idea of the problem... I ran a single installation of Win2000 from late 1999 to mid 2005 (I put it in, did a little tweaking and then just used it) then used a single installation of XP until mid-2010... I've now reinstalled Windows 7 for the 5th time in less than a year and it's still acting up...
Interestingly, some of the companies I used to do service for are telling me the same thing... Win 7 is just too unstable for commercial use. A couple even offered me money to backdate them to XP...
So, rant aside... has anyone else had this or similar experiences?