Thread: "Windows Sucks". Discuss. (AKA Why do you like your OS?)

I have to admit I've never used a mac and it probably is far better than windows.

My problem is with these linux users

The theory is good and I have tried many many many times with Redhat/Fedora, Mandrake, SUSE. I am, and have been for over 10 years now, been a computer programmer and have a fair understanding of computer systems... BUT

I install these so-called operating systems and then the fun starts.

My printer doesn't work, my modem doesn't work, my tv card doesn't work, the first time I tried linux I chose a screen resolution that was too large and the whole thing just fell over and went to command line!!!! I try to install programs and have to do it via command line and there are 2 billion packages that I need for it to run that haven't come with the software. I download the first and that needs 2 billion freekin' packages as well!!!

I know, I know.... it's not a linux fault, it's the manufacturers of the hardware that don't support linux. I don't care! If it doesn't work I don't really give a rat's why and I don't want to waste anymore of my life scrawling through millions and millions of pages of linux forums with no answers from geeks that have nothing better to do and end up saying I should recompile the kernel!!!!!

I plug in my usb stick and it recognizes it but can't see the files. I have to go to the command prompt, su to become root user and mount the fc'n thing every fc'n time!

I try to run software for copying dvd's and it doesn't work. The answer I hear you ask????? Install WINE to emulate windows!!!!! WTF??????????

I challenge any of you to get MythTV running on a linux box and not age 20 years in doing so!

1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi, 3 Mississippi... where's my angina medication? I need to have a lie down.

So, Drsch, correct me if I'm wrong here, but.......








.....LINUX sucks, too?

I'm OK with that.

-whatever

-Lou

Lou, Windows ME bites big time. No question 'bout that

Confucius once said girl who stand on head in plane likely to have crack up (don't know why she had to be in a plane)

But guys you do seriously crack me up

John

When my WinME home computer finally (and thankfully) gave up the ghost, I made a point to personally, hand-carry the damn thing out to the land fill, so I could enjoy the sight of the huge, tracked bull dozer grinding it into tiny little pieces and mixing them up with the rest of the garbage.


(...my only regret was that it didn't scream!...)

Windows ME blew by 'bites', didn't even slow down for 'sucks' and smashed into the wall of 'criminally prosecutable'...



...there's a special place in hell for the people that foisted that pile of crap on the computing public.

YMMV - but I doubt it!

-whatever

-Lou

I'm Windows...
..Windows Sucks

-whatever

-Lou

eh , I've had worse

I've used a lot of operating systems over the years have been an admin for a lot of them (somewhere in the 30+ range and that's not versions but distinct operating systems).

Some sucked, some sucked less and some I actually like(d) for one reason or another. For desktops the only one that's still active that I like is Mac OS X. If it had kept going, at least one of my Macs would be running BeOS now though... loved that OS for what it did well.

Ultimately, IMO, it still comes down to what works best for each person. There's no one universally perfect operating system for everyone or every purpose. my $0.02.

Ant

Mparker, that's very, very funny

OK, I'll admit that Linux isn't that "easy". But personally I feel that's a small price to pay for "freedom".

Maybe I'm making a false analogy, but I think of windows as Gillette and linux as a straight (does that make Mac a DE?...).

Windows works, but after about two uses you need to refresh; new versions come out that basically just build on the old versions (ie let's add two more blades....); it's run by a soul-less corporation that just wants you to keep spending and upgrading for a sub-standard experience.

Linux takes time to learn properly, and skill and patience to use correctly. It's community driven, so the more you put in the more you get out, much like this forum. It harks back to a time in history where you actually needed to understand how a computer worked to use it effectively. It's first principles (compared to windows) and rather beautiful in it's simplicity in that regard.

This is only my opinion - and I do use windows (for those niggly hard-to reach places that my linux skills can't get to yet - like setting up my @%$$*& wireless card to work with my home network....)

James.