Please dont say silly things. If you thing that Windows is crap, I may 
agree with you. But there are lots of people out thete that *need* to 
use it, or are not as smart as you are to use only Linux.

Kicad is NOT AT ALL ruling Windows out.

There is a lot of work going on on the Development List to make windows 
as fast as possible and it will certainly get better before the final 
release.

Alain
PS: I am stepping this this because that is the second time that someone 
that should not speak in kicad's behalf sends an unpolite anwer to a 
windows user. I am not a regular Windows user myself, but I have a lot 
of good friends that are and I moving to Kicad is just one more step out 
of Windows.


DanielW escreveu:
> There's another solution you're missing: use a CAD package that's designed to 
> work well under Windows, unlike KiCad.
> 
> Someone who's willing to shell out hard-earned cash for Windows 7 should be 
> happy to also buy a nice commercial CAD package, such as Orcad.  Trying to 
> run Free software on Windows is just silly.  If you're going to buy into the 
> whole commercial software thing, then don't do it halfway.  Use paid, 
> commercial software for everything you do in Windows, as the whole 
> environment is one where Microsoft and its ISV partners work together to 
> bring you the software experience they think you should have, for a fee, and 
> if you're bought Windows, then that proves that you also buy into Microsoft's 
> vision.  Microsoft's vision does NOT include any Free software; they've 
> stated this publicly over and over.
> 
> Personally, I'm perfectly happy with KiCad running on Kubuntu.
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- In [email protected], "dickelbeck" <d...@...> wrote:
>> --- In [email protected], "o00batman00o" <anthony.siegrist@> wrote:
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> Since I upgraded to windows 7, I can't use pcbnew beacause the screen 
>>> refresh is amazing slow. I can see dot grid showing up from left to right. 
>>> I notice the same behavior on all PC running Windows Vista or 7.
>>>
>>> My temporary solution is to run Kicad under Ubuntu via VirtualBox. By this 
>>> way refreshing rate is in my opinion 10 times faster.
>>>
>>> Does someone noticed the same issue? 
>> No, but I don't use Windows.
>>
>>> Is there a solution ?
>> Use Ubuntu?
>>
>> How much pain do you need, before you switch?  I hit my threshold 6 years 
>> ago.  I assume you use Windows for a reason, is that reason so that you can 
>> call Microsoft and get help on issues like this?
>>
> 
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