Windows XP is not that bad! (Please read entire message)

[mobrien_12]

quote:Originally posted by The Angel Of Death BETA 2.0:
Or, you could use Windows 3.11

I don't remember that crashing at all!  Certainly Windows 1.0 didn't!

3.11 crashed alot.  W/o preemptive multitasking or protected memory there was a very good chance that a crashed program would force you to reboot.  

Also, 3.11 had some memory leak issues that would force you to reboot every so often unless you had a 3rd party memory manager.

However, a 3.11 crash never FUBARed the OS (requiring a reinstall) unlike some Win 95 crashes I remember.  

Interestingly enough, I don't remember Windows 1.0 crashing now that you mention it.

[ April 28, 2003: Message edited by: M. O'Brien ]

[jtpenrod]

quote:Except for a fucked-up interface, huge bugs, frequent crashes, massive bloating, huge price-tag,lack of open source code, the un-uninstallable Internet Explorer, no MS-DOS prompt, and all of the M$ made spyware that comes with it, Windows XP is great!

Well, it's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, I suppose. Or maybe not?      
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Live Free or Die: Linux

"There: now you'll never have to look at those dirty Windows anymore"
      --Daffy Duck

[suselinux]

Call men ignorant If you want, but I have to ask.

What was Windows born from.  I can't really imagine it being entirely original.

[jtpenrod]

quote:What was Windows born from. I can't really imagine it being entirely original.

It got started with QDOS, which His Gatesness bought from Seattle Computing, which, in turn, ripped off CP/M. QDOS became MS-DOS, and then they slapped a GUI on top of it. This idea His Gatesness stole from Apple, which had gotten the idea from Xerox PARC.

It wasn't "original" at all.    
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Live Free or Die: Linux

"There: now you'll never have to look at those dirty Windows anymore"
      --Daffy Duck

[jpmarat]

Quick forward:  I'm running XP Pro on an Inspiron 8200 P4 laptop...runs like a dream.  I've crashed twice in six months, both times due to my video card drivers.  I have very little reason to be terribly upset.  HOWEVER...

M$ still blows.

Palladium is the devil, and I plan on switching to Linux (Probly RH 8 or so) this summer when I can have my comp down for long periods of time without losing schoolwork.  I will be boycotting M$ products from this point forward, and I'm looking into Sun Office.

XP is uses so much memory, but I don't do that much stuff that is memory intensive, and since I have 512 mB, it doesn't bother me.  However, the operating system alone SHOULDN'T suck 100 mB of memory.

Windows, as has been stated, was built on MS-DOS, which was a makeover on Q-Dos, which was basically Gary Killdall's CP/M with the HD drive letter changed to c, from a.  the GUI came from the Apple Lisa, which came from the Xerox Alto, which, interestingly enough, was the first true networkable computer, complete with a technology that Xerox called ethernet.  All this back in the mid 80s!  Anyhow, sorry for the long post, but spread the word, M$ blows, and this Palladium will only make things worse.  Intel isn't helping either, and their fascist Centrino is the first step toward total TCPA domination.  Keep your PCs running smoothly, because soon you may not be able to buy a PC without Palladium technology!!!

[raptor]

quote: for example id prefer butsex with torvalds rather then bill, but it doesnt mean id like it.


 

  :rolleyes:

[ May 05, 2003: Message edited by: raptor ]

[slave]

I'm glad you're making the switch!  It certainly is worth it.  Red Hat Linux 9 is out now, so I would suggest using it rather than 8.  Here's a screenshot of my RH9 desktop in case you are curious:

http://www.bayou.com/~troll/screen1.png

[raptor]

cool screenshot.

[Refalm]

quote:Originally posted by Linux User #5225982375:
I'm glad you're making the switch!  It certainly is worth it.  Red Hat Linux 9 is out now, so I would suggest using it rather than 8.  Here's a screenshot of my RH9 desktop in case you are curious:

http://www.bayou.com/~troll/screen1.png

What happened to Mandrake?

[slave]

Mandrake (and KDE) turned out to be pretty buggy.  I spent around an hour getting the truetype fonts installed correctly, and KDE's control panel started driving me mad, as did Konqueror's glaring bugs that popped up while surfing the web.  I went back to RH and GNOME because, frankly, they just work.  Gnome may not have as many features as KDE, but after using both I believe that Gnome is a much more thought out piece of software.

[Refalm]

I'm holding back on Red Hat and Gnome because I'm not sure that everything is in the Dutch language...

[xyle_one]

i just installed mandrake 9.1 last night, and am very impressed. of course, i havent even really used it yet. so we will see. i do want to give redhat 9 a spin as well. maybe i will install that this weekend.

[chaizak]

It's true XP is really bad every time I had it installed after one month I had to format because of the crash that occured every time I runned an app.
I believe Win2000 is far better but the best choices are:Linux, MacOs and Solaris

[GamerX]

Windows 2000 is excellent. Too bad M$ knew  that they had made a decent product and therefore came out with XP less than a year later.

[Pissed_Macman]

Windows -2000 is horrible!!!! The theme is supposed to be a whole bunch of gradients but none of them are anti-aliased!!! Don't even get me started on -2000!!!! No, it is not EXCELLENT you heretic, it is slightly better than the other Windows, which means it STILL SUCKS!!!!!!