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Switching to Windows: Not as easy as you think
Pathos:
yep Linux always gets the basics right first.
MarathoN:
--- Quote from: worker201 ---Finally had the chance to read this article all the way through, and I thought it was kinda funny. But dead-on balls accurate. People who complain about Linux usually complain because it is not like Windows. Windows is most people's frame of reference for the personal computer. When Linux is your frame of reference, Windows is obviously the devil. No configure files, cryptic error messages, barely supported 3rd party software, strong & constrictive branding, etc. Those of us who come from a Windows childhood have to deal with Linux strangeness for awhile, but after that, stuff like apt, xfce, stderr, logs, and configs become normal and infinitely more useful. At that point, we look back and notice how Windows sucks. This article's benefit, then, is that it is written in the unique point of view of someone looking forward on Windows, and seeing very clearly how it can cripple the aware user's experience.
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Hmm, I feel really weird knowing that I have NEVER had a problem with Windows, (well, up until XP).
But at the same time, I feel good about not being brought up on Windows, Mac OS System 7.5 for me :p
H_TeXMeX_H:
--- Quote from: MarathoN ---Hmm, I feel really weird knowing that I have NEVER had a problem with Windows, (well, up until XP).
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Are you sure ? How can that be ... I know that Window$ Me was horrible ... it predictably crashed within 3 hours of booting it up ... 98 and 95 seemed to have less problems as I remember it ... but they still crashed at least once a day ... And XP, although it crashed less it was way too adware ridden ... this may also have been due to the DMR :D
MarathoN:
Haha, never used ME, apart from on friends machines, same with XP, and I don't like either. ;)
95/98 were fine though, apart from the occasional BSOD lol
piratePenguin:
Windows 98 didn't treat me all that bad during the few months I had it running on the abandoned 233mhz and something like 300mb RAM machine almost 2 years ago. Unfortunetly for Microsoft, Mandrake was better in every conceivable way.
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