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Hmm.. 'What's so bad about Windows XP?'
xyle_one:
xp is slow & bloated. [sarcastic voice] and because appearance is the most important thing about an os [/sarcastic voice] xp even failed at that. when i do a search on the local drive looking for a file ON MY COMPUTER, xp sends something to microsoft. (if you want the article on that, search google or the forums). thats just not cool. when i come into work in the morning, turn my computer on, and the first thing that happens is explorer.exe has had a fatal error. from starting up. it wasnt even doing anything. the goddamn media player that you cant remove, the goddamn msn messenger that you cant remove (easily), and fucking exploder. windows update. drives mapped with a letter. at least on my mac i can move entire folders and not fuck up the map between a program and the file. windows does not support any other filesystem unless its a microsoft fs. i dont want to use explorer, i cant uninstall it. i cant remove anything really. the level of customization is a fucking joke. the registry?? WTF!. memory management, or rather the lack of decent memory management. when i am doing an animation and its rendering, i decide to stop it because something doesnt look right, windows will not release the memory back to the pool. which means to run the program decently, i have to restart after EVERY RENDER!!! i dont have that problem on my mac. home edition costs $200, pro costs $300. dumb. they even made home suck more, it cant even run autocad decently. product activation. i think buying it is enough, i shouldnt have to activate and register with microsoft. activation didnt stop the crackers did it, it only hurts the consumer who actually bought it. what happens if they change their mobo, or add a new harddrive, or what if they want to buy a new computer, they have to buy a new copy of windows. why cant they use the one they already bought, siincec they are not going to use the old computer anymore?? you get shit for software with windows, with linux i get countless quality apps. linux even ships with source code, and the tools to make your own software. even mac ships with developer tools. microsoft paint anybody?? you know, i could go on and on, but im beating a dead horse here. windows sucks.
Electric Jaguar:
quote:Originally posted by Calum:
but if you think people here have a duty to help you, then think again. with a negative attitude such as yours (not unfriendly, just that you have a habit of putting down people's answers to you) i don't think people will go out of their way that much to be honest.
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I do not expect people to answer my questions, although it would maintain the integrity of the site to give me some. Hey, where did I put down a person's answer to my questions? Are you talking about my reply to Tux? Well, let's see what he first said to me:
quote:Originally posted by Tux:You're either lucky or stupid. I'm not gonna tell you how bad your windows is, i'm not gonna force you to use a new OS. But when windows screws up on you, please, please don't come crying to us.
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This reply does not answer my questions, nor does it give me friendly advice. I stand by my decision to disregard, or as you said, "[put] down people's answers to you", at least in this case. However, you said I have a habit of it and since at the time of your posting I had only replied to two people, I shall assume you think I was also putting down Refalm's answer. I was not; the questions I asked about the Application Layer Gateway still stand, regardless of whether I have it disabled or not. How is asking more questions about a reply putting it down or disregarding it?
EDIT: PS- Thanks for the responses guys. I will have to look over my debian boot and see if it is worth making it my only OS.
EDIT: PPS- Thanks for changing my thread topic, Calum.
[ December 10, 2002: Message edited by: Electric Jaguar ]
KernelPanic:
quote:Originally posted by Electric Jaguar:
This reply does not answer my questions, nor does it give me friendly advice. I stand by my decision to disregard, or as you said, "[put] down people's answers to you", at least in this case. However, you said I have a habit of it and since at the time of your posting I had only replied to two people, I shall assume you think I was also putting down Refalm's answer. I was not; the questions I asked about the Application Layer Gateway still stand, regardless of whether I have it disabled or not. How is asking more questions about a reply putting it down or disregarding it?
EDIT: PS- Thanks for the responses guys. I will have to look over my debian boot and see if it is worth making it my only OS.
EDIT: PPS- Thanks for changing my thread topic, Calum.
[ December 10, 2002: Message edited by: Electric Jaguar ]
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I tried to stand on the fence, but maybe my Linux geek communication skills aren't comptible with your '1337' proprietory windows comprehension skills.
Maybe it was a bad post, I don't know and to tell the truth I don't give a shit :D
Yeah you should make Debian your only OS, once you make that step you really notice where windows was screwing you.
Doctor V:
EJ asked a valid question and deserves an accurate response.
The first thing that really bugged me about XP was product activation. I had a copy of win2K that could do everything XP could, but didn't require activation. All XP offers over win2K is a flashy GUIDispite this, XP costs twice what win2K does. Why would someone upgrade, what would the motivation be? I couldn't think of a good reason at all to spend money for somehting that offers me almost nothing, and trys to limit what I do. That is not innovation, that is abuse of monopoly powers, such a product would never have sold had M$ not already had 90%+ market share.
This web page describes what XP is all about in detail. Its very good, if you have time, I suggest you take a look at it.
As far as the quality of OS goes. XP is good compared to win98, but linux does beat it. Linux runs faster and on computers with lower specs. You have a helluva lot more control of the going ons with Linux than windowsXP. While XP rarely crashes, it does crash, I've heard of it. It also dosn't run well for a long period of time according to many. Linux does not have these problems. Linux is more secure, the list goes on. I don't want to repeat whats been said above, but the points I have read are very valid.
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lazygamer:
Here is what I have been thinking about XP. There is good reasons against it, but they don't answer the most basic questions that appeal to the less enlightened users.
Spyware-What if the user isn't really concerned at the moment about invasion of privacy. Not everyone is super paranoid/uses their comp for undesirable purposes.
Paving the way for DRM-Problem is, this won't affect users for quite sometime. Im sure there is plenty of people who can notice when shit really hits the fan, and jump ship.
Activation-Suppose you are a pirate(so many windows users are), activation doesn't affect you.
These are three major reasons, im sure there are others. This is what should be answered:
Speed-If XP runs good on a modern system, would an older Windows run better due to the lower requirements?(on the same modern system of course) Remember it is not just the GUI, consider programs and multi-tasking.
Stability-Is it really more stable on average then the the past Windows? If it is, there are systems(hardware configurations) that are "Windows cursed", which throw this stability out the window. With older Windows, were there less "cursed" systems?
Longetivity-Basically, how long before something fucks up beyond repair, whether it is the registry, or something else. Does XP suffer more from longetivity problems then older Windows? Does it last longer? Does it last longer?
Security(probably not a major reason to the common folk, but still more relevant then some reasons)-Is XP security worse then the past windows? Is it more secure, just has crappy default security settings?
Now for these 4 aspects of Windows, how does XP compare to 2K, ME, 98, and 95.
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