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Aloone_Jonez:
--- Quote from: Put_lead_in_gates_head ---I think i big help in improving their OSes would be to remove all the bloat code. I mean i could fit win98 into a 500 MB HD and still have about 400 MB of free space and WinXP needs roughly 1.2-1.8 GB of HD space. Isn't longhorn supposed to be like 3 GB or somethink like that. Apple, in the 80s by shrunk all the code to GUI OS and fit it on like a 256KB rom chip. If microsoft wanted to they could shrink the code so you don't need a special version of windows like WinCE to fit in small integrated devices. CE is just like XP
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All operating systems get bigger over time including Linux and Mac OS, the old 2.4 Linux kernel would fit on a floppy disc but 2.6 won't. The thing about Windows is you need to run a GUI while with other OSs a GUI is optional and in this respect it is bloated but otherwise it's no more bloated than Linux is running KDE.
--- Quote from: Put_lead_in_gates_head ---XP=Experience many reboots and errors
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I'm feeling quite left out because I use Windows and I haven't experianced any forced reboots or errors that couldn't be fixed.
--- Quote from: Put_lead_in_gates_head ---Anyone know Microsoft's real slogan, i do it is "What's in your wallet"
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Yes you've got that one right at least.
Siplus:
Aloone_Jonez: You seem to be one of the luckiest computer users I have ever seen/known if you are not experiencing problems with windows xp.
(Don't try to say 'I know what I am doing', because you are not the only one who ran/runs a windows system and 'knows what they are doing'. It is just such a bug-ridden system and I am _always_ running into immense difficulty keeping it up and running smoothly for any time greater than a few weeks.)
If you have such good luck, and i do mean luck, with windows, then at least don't act as if it is a normality to have a great time in a windows environment, and making it out to be bliss. It is far from for most people who use windows.
Aloone_Jonez:
--- Quote from: Siplus ---Aloone_Jonez: You seem to be one of the luckiest computer users I have ever seen/known if you are not experiencing problems with windows xp.
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There are 100s of computers at work and at college with Windows 2000 and I've never seen any of them BSOD or reboot for no reason and my friend's laptop runs Windows XP and he's never had a problem.
--- Quote from: Siplus ---(Don't try to say 'I know what I am doing', because you are not the only one who ran/runs a windows system and 'knows what they are doing'. It is just such a bug-ridden system and I am _always_ running into immense difficulty keeping it up and running smoothly for any time greater than a few weeks.)
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My friend doesn't have a clue about computers and he doesn't have a problem with his laptop, the admin at college and work aren't very good either and yet there are very few Windows related problems.
--- Quote from: Siplus ---If you have such good luck, and i do mean luck, with windows, then at least don't act as if it is a normality to have a great time in a windows environment, and making it out to be bliss. It is far from for most people who use windows.
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How can you assume your experiance is the same as others?
Most of the problems people experiance are more to do with drivers than bugs in Windows. Set up Windows with the right drivers and security settings and it'll run and run and run.
skyman8081:
I'm in the same boat as Aloone, I run XP fine, no errors or BSOD's. just a few buggy apps that don't behave as expected, and crash. (mostly, anything that I write ;) )
piratePenguin:
Interesting.
Aloone and Skyman, have either of you ever seen a recent version of Windows (let's say, since the (new) NT kernel) go into that mode? When the start menu refuses to pop up, and when you drag the windows about they mess up the screen (it doesn't remove the old (before it was moved) window from the screen)? And when you click on something, it doesn't appear to load, or maybe it does five minutes later?
I'm shit at describing it, but I'm sure you know what I'm talking about ;)
I know that mode all to well. A simple flick of a switch fixes it. Actually no, a simple flick of a switch doesn't fix it, but this does.
EDIT: I dunno why I keep saying "that mode". In my experience, I should be saying Windows mode.
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