New idea, list of why XP sucks!

[lazygamer]

I was thinking, it's common MES knowledge that XP is horrible. Your advisement(and Zombie being proven incompetent) has convinced me to delete my XP soon and give W95 a shot. XP must be really bad if you guys seem to think that a previous wind0ze version is a less cruel fate.

So I was thinking, what is so bad about it. It would make a good wind0ze FAQ for this site. IE:Why do so many people at MES hate XP?

-Non pirated versions have the product activation.

-XP dual boots with Linux like a bitch on some systems(such as mine). Previous windows work happyily with Linux.

-Some systems have major problems with it out of the box.

-There is some form of spyware from Microsoft in it, a firewall SHOULD pickup some wierd outgoing transmissions.

-Even wind0ze XP will start to cough eventually after a few months on some systems.

-It's 0ld$k00l compatibility is a joke.

-It's scaled for more modern systems, scaled to encourage people to jump back on the upgrade rat cycle. Wind0ze 95 can run really slowly on a 386, Wind0ze XP does warrant a faster system, but it seems too much of an upgrade for what it gives.

-It's the beginings of Palladium, DRM, and TCPA.

-The possiblity of blacklisted copies being "bombed" by MS. I am not sure how that works though, I belive my XP is blacklisted, but so far I think it just means I can't use windows update.

-The pervasive EULA that is blindingly agreed to, a EULA that can allow MS new powers over you that they haven't overly exercised yet.

-The semi-theroetical  "crap out" theory. In W98 and some others wind0ze, MS may designed a crap out mechanism, making the Wind0ze perform very slowly and unstably after two years. XP may have this mechanism. It can only be solved be a re-install. W95 is so old, that MS did not put such a thing in it.

[almightyme]

Plus it's made by capitalists, that's good enough for me to hate it.

[lazygamer]

Well I think this is a good idea, the idea here is to educate the masses right? Now to the "masses" Wind0ze XP is the greatest thing since sliced bread. It is proven to crash less then 9X! It also has a few new GUI features(doesn't mean it is a great GUI, just means it has new shit).

If XP were so great, people here wouldn't despise it more then all other wind0ze. If XP means better performance and stability on average(over 9X), then there must be some pretty big reasons behind this hatred woulden't you say?

Now these reasons are far harder to notice then comparing Wind0ze to Mac or Wind0ze to Linux. But despite them being harder to notice, they are still significant.

[clagh131]

~ bc it failed to install properly on my little brother's computer and I'm still trying to remove it's uglyness from the system!  (add/remove never heard of it..)

[Annorax]

Easy way to solve that... in the autoexec file just put this as the first line

echo Y | FORMAT C:\

then install RedHat 8.0

end of problem

[RedFedora]

I have windows XP (HAVE not LIKE) and i did notice a slow down after the first few months. It also crashes alot. My analysis: Just another microsoft piece of crap.  "I never have to reboot, as long as I don't touch it.

[chuayw2000]

I agree too. Before XP was installed, there was no problem with my Pc, when I did, it definitely slowed down and tons of errors appeared. Even Windows automatically end tasking it's own explorer.exe when restarting which resulted in an endless circle of closing and reopening (explorer.exe is designed to reload automatically when closed) until I finally had to trun of the power switch!!!!! And I don't want to waste money by uninstalling XP, so I have to bear with Microsoft funniest piece of joke...

[Calum]

you don't want to waste money by uninstalling that heap of shit and installing a real operating system? what about wasting your time? and your nerves?

think about what you just said.

[xyle_one]

quote: Originally posted by chuayw2000:
 I agree too. Before XP was installed, there was no problem with my Pc, when I did, it definitely slowed down and tons of errors appeared. Even Windows automatically end tasking it's own explorer.exe when restarting which resulted in an endless circle of closing and reopening (explorer.exe is designed to reload automatically when closed) until I finally had to trun of the power switch!!!!! And I don't want to waste money by uninstalling XP, so I have to bear with Microsoft funniest piece of joke...

ahh. it would be free & painless to uninstall Xp and put, say, redHat8.0 on the computer. you could even dual boot with windows 2000. (even though you really dont need windows on there at all, it helps with the transition    )

[Calum]

i recommend windows 3.11, it has the added benefit of not being so insecure as later versions of windows on your network (reason is that it's almost impossible to make it connect to any network!)