fucking windows is so fucking gay

[WMD]

quote:Originally posted by pandronic:
What the hell is this about not logging in as Admin??? I mean - let's go to the root of the problem ... why the fuck do I need to log in on my home computer? The whole login concept is plain stupid if we are talking about computers that are used by one or two persons.

Because under a standard user account, if you mess something up, you really can't damage your system.  Under an admin, you CAN.  If people logged in to their home computers as a regular user, running some worm program probably wouldn't have much effect, since the user doesn't have privledges to install such a thing.

[restin256]

quote:Originally posted by jimmyjames.sytes.net:


Shitty. Shitty shitty shitty shitty. I can't say it enough... Win98 is shitty.

Though it has the least bit of bloat, and is the only OS to qualify running on my pentium II..

[pandronic]

quote:Originally posted by WMD:


Because under a standard user account, if you mess something up, you really can't damage your system.  Under an admin, you CAN.  If people logged in to their home computers as a regular user, running some worm program probably wouldn't have much effect, since the user doesn't have privledges to install such a thing.

This is not very practical. You lose a lot of time rebooting every time you want to do something a little more complex.

You have to be quite a computer idiot to have worm problems, so maybe you're right - logging could be a solution for the average user.

[Fett101]

quote:Originally posted by pandronic:


This is not very practical. You lose a lot of time rebooting every time you want to do something a little more complex.

Um... you can just logoff. You don't have to reboot.

[WMD]

quote:Originally posted by restin256:


Though it has the least bit of bloat, and is the only OS to qualify running on my pentium II..

Windows 95 has less bloat (and no IE integration).

[Refalm]

quote:WMD: Windows 95 has less bloat (and no IE integration).

Linux has even less. It has as much bloat as you want. From 2 GB of Slackware with all desktops, games, programs, etc. to 1.44 MB of bootable compressed routing/firewall software of Coyote Linux.

[restin256]

At the time I still used my P2 I was still a supernewb in Linux.

[Claris]

quote:Originally posted by jimmyjames.sytes.net:
look at all this evidence to the contrary! people who use windows and like it fine! oh my... SEEMS THAT IT'S NOT SO BAD AFTER ALL

Damn, jimmy. You figured us out. Windows doesn't actually have all these problems, we're just making it up because we want something to bitch about.   :rolleyes:

[flap]

quote:look at all this evidence to the contrary! people who use windows and like it fine! oh my... SEEMS THAT IT'S NOT SO BAD AFTER ALL

Just remind me, why are you posting on this forum?

[Annorax]

quote:Originally posted by jimmyjames.sytes.net:
look at all this evidence to the contrary! people who use windows and like it fine! oh my... SEEMS THAT IT'S NOT SO BAD AFTER ALL

Bad troll! Bad! Look what you did on the floor!

EDIT: Any software designed under the "security through presumed obscurity" philosophy is inherently shit. Windows built on that by making the common sense obscure and the exploits common knowledge. If you're seriously advocating using something like that, you need to give us some hardcore evidence that it's better than a Mac in any way OTHER than market share-related "evidence" of domination.

[ March 14, 2004: Message edited by: Annorax: Temporal Refugee ]