+1
Ive gotten a couple of viruses in the 10 years ive been using the internet, and I cant honestly say that I can complain about that.
And that whole part by "hating windows for a good reason", I dont buy that crap.
I havent really had many problems with windows at all.
The only times you will run in to problems is 99% of the time because of the user.
Windows is not the most used operativesystem in the world just because of the marketing.
Sure, if you really are in to computers etc. there really is alot of flaws, but then again, what is so wrong with having a operativesystem that cook or clean for you?
And that backwardcompability thing is completely untrue.
Its extremely hard to get some stuff from XP to work in Vista, and when XP was released there was an even bigger problem: Leaving DOS.
And the funny thing is, Microsoft has gotten crap for caring too much about being "backwards compatible" AND too not be able to run software made for the previous operativesystem.
Not to defend Microsoft now, but lets just face it, either you guys are just Macintoshfreaks that cant stand that Windows is more popular, or you simply dont know how to handle Windows.
// End rant.
Oh, hi, I do know how to operate Windows. I have been since I was about as tall as the desk I'm currently typing on. I've been fixing Windows boxes for others since I was 10, as well.
Microsoft keeps a lot of legacy stuff and there's simply no denying that. I'm not a 'Macintoshfreak', either. They keep building new layers of nonsense - yeah, they dropped DOS, whoopdeyfuckingdoo, it's now a slightly less bloated ball of nonsense.
Windows isn't the most popular OS because of its performance, either. Unstable for all of its history - hell, even DOS was broken when they bought it - and the way they got the market was by knowing how to screw people over with contracts. If you bought a computer from the store a few years ago, the company that made it (if it was one of the big ones) was paying for a Windows license whether you planned to use it or not, so it came that way.
Most of my problems with Windows come from having to reboot for no good reason, having a very resource-hogging system (I use the same Linux setup on my main box as I did on an AMD 400MHz with literally 1/16th the RAM, and it's faster, more stable, and has everything but my games), having an inherently insecure platform (and yes, I do know more than my fair share about computer security, I run through a hardware and a software firewall, I have all the anti-thisandthat necessary to zap anything - not a 'user' problem, unless you think a guy that's been breaking shit since he was 3 and who works with cryptography doesn't know about security)...
Actually, on security, there was a crack posted a while back on /. where someone used a pendrive Linux distro to RENAME a couple of files that gave him full credentials for anything. He renamed the command prompt to the disability services tool, then when he booted NOTHING WAS CHECKED and he was able to click the disability access and get the Windows equivalent of root access.
That is fail.
I'm by no stretch an idiot, and by any fair standards I'm a power user - building my own computers since... hell, my age was still one-digit, programming little things for about as long, fixing things for as long as I can remember - and I rarely have problems I caused myself.
Jeff
