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The Vandalisation of Windows
Aloone_Jonez:
http://www.itwriting.com/winvandals.php
Most articles I've read just bitch about Windows and don't get to the true, this article is great, I completely agree with it 100%. Windows isn't inherently insecure, it's just that Microsoft has provided retarded default settings that give the average user little choice but to run an insecure set up.
piratePenguin:
Even muzzy says Windows blows!
(kinda)
Jack2000:
yup
the easy way
is the bad way!
Aloone_Jonez:
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---Even muzzy says Windows blows!
(kinda)
--- End quote ---
Well about 50% I recon.
The sad thing is Windows has the potential to be a very good operating system (better than UNIX in many ways) but MS won't let this happen. Just think of the tools and features that could be added?
One of the most shittyest things is you have to pay for 3rd part products that should be shipped with the OS like theming, a decent programming language, and registry management tool. Windows is far worse for things MS has left out rather than the shit they've added.
piratePenguin:
The Windows firewall doesn't compete with iptables. You can barely configure it. Firewalls are important, and every operating system connected to a network should have a very fucking good one. Especially Windows. Is there something I'm missing about the Windows firewall or is it really just plain shit?
In Windows, can you renice (i.e. change the priority of) processes? I like to renice processes e.g. when I'm compiling something big and I don't want GAIM to run the slightest bit slow. Can you do this in Windows? I don't remember seeing anything like this in the Task Manager, but I never searched for it.
Simple things like these (I suspect that they wouldn't be so simple to implement.) are important. They tell you that the design of specific bits of the operating system probably don't completely suck, as well as being useful.
I just think Windows sucks, and that it doesn't compete with real operating systems like GNU/Linux or FreeBSD on any level but a few that only retards* feel are important, which is why retards are attracted to Windows.
* This term used loosely.
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