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Windows Sucks
Aloone_Jonez:
I agree imagine what UNIX would be like with retards at the wheel.
Can anyone else think of any reasons why not to use Windows?
I was very suprised at the lack of Linux supporters who challenged toadlife's post, can it be that Windows is improving and people here are fast running out of reasons for people to switch to alternatives?
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: xyle_one ---I think it's because I am not an idiot...
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Umm... Err...
I think you might want to edit/remove that. Seriously.
I'm not an idiot. I used to use Windows XP.
It crashed. Alot.
And I know Windows inside out. Obviously more than likely not as much as muzzy and possibly yourself, but WHY should one need to learn so much to make the system run smooth?
Crashing can barely ever be blamed on the user. It's either the software (OS + drivers), or the hardware causing the computer to crash. Windows runs like shite under some hardware setups, it seems. Whereas GNU/Linux would generally kick ass on the same hardware. That tells me that the software that is Windows and it's drivers are SHIT (as in unstable).
xyle_one:
I would say it's more that this isn't 1998 anymore. XP is pretty solid, even if it is bloated.
While, in my eyes, the alternatives to Windows are superior, especially when it comes to increasing my own productivity, for basic users doing basic tasks, email, internet, managing their photos, printing those photos, even watching movies and listening to music, windows works fine for them. It tries to make it easier. I believe that it is even easier on OSX though. Apple did it right. Work on the basic things and make them simpler for the user. Then you can add more functionality to it. With Linux, maybe there are too many choices. What normal user is going to test out 3 different email clients, 5 browsers, 3 office suites, etc, when they really have no idea what they are looking at in the first place? It's overwhelming.
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---Umm... Err...
I think you might want to edit/remove that. Seriously.
I'm not an idiot. I used to use Windows XP.
It crashed. Alot.
And I know Windows inside out. Obviously more than likely not as much as muzzy and possibly yourself, but WHY should one need to learn so much to make the system run smooth?
Crashing can barely ever be blamed on the user. It's either the software (OS + drivers), or the hardware causing the computer to crash. Windows runs like shite under some hardware setups, it seems. Whereas GNU/Linux would generally kick ass on the same hardware. That tells me that the software that is Windows and it's drivers are SHIT (as in unstable).
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Ha, no I am not going to remove that. My windows machine is solid right now. Do a search for my old posts, from like 2-3 years ago, and yeah, i would bitch about it all the time. But it's hardware most of the time. This machine I am using now is solid.
Also, when I get a new linux install, first thing I do is tweak the hell out of it to make it work the way I want to. I spend a long time doing that, and learning to make it work, leraning the system. Why shouldn't you do the same with Windows? Even in OSX I will spend time making it work. Sure, it works out of the box, but at some point you have to tweak it a bit.
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---I was very suprised at the lack of Linux supporters who challenged toadlife's post, can it be that Windows is improving and people here are fast running out of reasons for people to switch to alternatives?
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Read his post again, there's so many assumptions in it. And they are kindof realistic. But anything could happen.
That's why I listed the non-technical consequences of the fall of MS.
And I forgot one BTW:
FREEDOM!
xyle_one:
Are we not free to use Windows if we choose? Freedom is having the ability to choose what we want to run. If that choice is windows, then so be it. Don't start talking shit about not being free. Right now at work, if I so choose to, I can install Fedora and use that. Is that not free?
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