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windows xp looks better than other OSes... but works badly

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hm_murdock:
because MS pumped big bucks into making it all perty. too bad they didn't spend some time on revamping the balmy UI.

it still has brain dead UI concepts, like multiple document windows, reliance on button bars and right-click menus to do everything, poor layout, no continuity between apps, and so on.

lookin' good ain't bein' good.

jtpenrod:
And don't forget that all the pretty pictures, all the really "cool" visual effects, all burn up CPU resources for basically doing nothing.
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Calum:
well i think it looks shit, so where does that leave it?

lazygamer:
Wind0ze XP is shit(but probably better then W98). But I don't got a choice. Today XPoo shitted on me. It crashed for no apparent reason. My system would not boot past the CD drive detection. The problem would not correct itself, even after turning it off. 50 minutes later the problem corrected itself, but it still woulden't boot. Bios claimed that my CPU wasn't working or had been set wrong. Hmmm CPUsoft menu says it's set as a 266mhz chip?! Set it back to 433 and everything works fine again.

In addition, I had a pop up appear out of nowwhere while doing something non surfing related(with no broswers open). Wheeee, XP rulez. I wonder if ad-aware will remove such a thing? It seemed to be a one time occurence so far.

hm_murdock:
I can't say anything against eye-candy. I run Mac OS X which is king of eye-candy.

But, once again, the difference is that Apple uses the eye-candy to help the user. The genie effect on minimizing shows you where the window goes. The zooming dock allows you to have a 128x128 pixel target no matter how small you have the Dock set.

XP uses shadows badly, plus the shadows are ugly and badly rendered. Why do menus and the cursor have shadows... but windows don't? MS never pays attention to details, and uses eye-candy for stupid shit.

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