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

I'm a bit reticent to start this thread - I don't want to start a windows-bashing competition - the title's a joke. But it might help us from :HJ and :OT-ing other threads....

I personally set up all my machines as dual boot Windows XP and Fedora. I mainly live and work in Fedora, and boot into windows when I need to use platform-specific software as part of my work.

I like windows, things do "just work". But then a lot of hardware seems to me to be designed and supported for this platform, so perhaps it's not suprising that this is the case.

Fedora, and Linux in general, agree with my "commie", or rather "socialist", principles (these are my principles - if you don't like them, I have others....), and I like the challenge of getting everything set up and working properly. I also love command line stuff, and grew up on Unix.

James.

I miss Symbolics Genera.

Hi James,

I reckon pretty soon Scarface (Lou) will be adding his 2 cents worth as to why windows sucks, you just wait and see :D

Now come on now Lou don't let me down.

John

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Originally Posted by johnmw1

Hi James,

I reckon pretty soon Scarface (Lou) will be adding his 2 cents worth as to why windows sucks, you just wait and see :D

Now come on now Lou don't let me down.

John

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John, I think you're right - I always fall for the sucker punch...

Mparker, I'd never heard of Genera - just googled it and it sounds interesting.

James.

I remember my first tutorial with Windows - after the technician over my shoulder had finished giving me the quick tour, I asked "OK...how do I turn it off?" and the answer was ...."Click on START"....(??!!!???)


...and my experiences with Windows went downhill from there.

My first home computer came with Windows ME....I now have gray hair.

Granted, I understand that they've done a number of 're-writes' and 'upgrades', and that, contrary to my other post, DOS is pretty much gone since, what, Windows 98?.....

I'm currently running Windows XP -- just yesterday, I was in the chat room with John when my keyboard quit working....the fix....re-install the driver....

...now, Jimbo, I have no doubt that you can take me by the hand and lead me through the wondrous crystal castle that is now the Windows operating system....taking me from room to room....pointing out it's stellar icon based user interface (we all know where they got THAT idea!)....it's plug and play convenience (oops)....it's ease of networking (ooops?)....and Microsoft's co-operative attitude to the computing and software communities....and you know, as we stand at the front door to the castle after the tour, all starrry-eyed with wonder and amazement........











......IT WILL STLL BE WINDOWS...


.....A..N..D....I..T....W..I..L..L....S..T..I..L.. L....S..U..C..K..!..!..!..!

-whatever

-Lou

:roflmao

Lou, you misunderstand me. I agree with you. I'm probably the last guy who'd be showing people the wonders of windows. I only use it because I have to. But my objection is mainly philosophical - I have found most things work out of the box on windows (but see my caveat on that above) whereas in Linux you have to work a bit harder at it. But that's the fun.

Recently, I got hit by the trojans on the video page of this site. Only the windows side went down. Didn't even make Fedora blink, of course, as the guys who write these programmes exploit weaknesses in the windows OS. The tech guy at work's solution? Blow away my disk and re-image windows. Easiest way they reckon. There's gotta be something wrong when a re-install is the best solution.

James.

I love you, man.


-whatever

-Lou

High, I am a mac!

Hey, Kentriv, I've never used a Mac...but, you know....
























...I'll bet they pretty much suck, too!

-whatever

-Lou

I've been running Mac OS X Panther and it's a huge leap from Windows 98 for me. I don't get 10% of the adware and spyware I used to get. Those and viruses just seem bounce off the ironclad defence system. About once every six weeks I get a message to upgrade a security platform which is only a few days from having discovered a new threat. Windows never did that for me.

Most of what I do is word processing and the like. NeoOffice lets me work and record in any format I like from Linux through Windows to Mac files. It's so easy. When I moved into my BIL's last year I just took the tower with me (which is only 2" tall BTW) and when I turned it on for the first time it read "Detecting System Settings" and told me it had found a new printer and would I like to use that one for my jobs. I said 'yes', it said 'ok', no driver installation, nothing just "What should I do, boss?" and "Sure enough". Gotta like that.

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