The "let's bash Windows" thread

[Dr Unne]

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1945808,00.asp

I'm posting this for all those times I said "reinstall Windows" to people in the help forum and people thought I was being rude or sarcastic. I was, but I was also offering sound advice. Microsoft agrees.

So that this thread has a topic, please discuss other ways in which Windows sucks.

(If you subtly trash Internet Explorer too, you get bonus points. You lose automatically if you use the "I use Windows and nothing ever bad happened to me" argument or the "If something other than Windows was popular it'd be just as bad too" argument.)

[Cz]

I use Windows because I don't care enough to use anything else. Will that do?

However, I will concede that 100% of my OS-related problems have occured whilst using Windows. So yeah, it sucks (almost as much as IE sucks, in fact).

[Yamaneko]

Reinstall Gentoo.

[eestlinc]

paying taxes and going to work suck too, but I still do them.

[Yamaneko]

Death and Windows.

[Markus. D]

I use internet explorer AND windows.

top that?

[Xaven]

Nothing bad happens to me on Windows. Well, not on my computer at least. Back when I was sharing the family computer (an old Windows XP), it was riddled with bugs and viruses and spyware and other not-nicities. I blame Windows users, not the OS, for all the bad stuff happenening because they don't have a clue what the heck they're doing half/most/all the time.

My computer hasn't had one problem since I got it in November. *lose* I've never reinstalled my OS, either, though it would probably do wonders for the crap family computer.

[RSL]

I haven't done a format/windows reinstall for probably over a year now. I'm probably on borrowed time...

[ShunNakamura]

I haven't done a format/windows reinstall for probably over a year now. I'm probably on borrowed time...

for truth.


Actually though, with enough effort windows is fairly safe as an end user. But that is because nobody usually hits the single end user as hard as they do the big corporations.

I still say best windows is Win98SE, but meh(that is just cause it is the one I have seen go down the least, becoming a pain to get hardware and/or software to work with it though). As an added plus win98 wastes far less resources then XP does. For example, we at the college configured my WinXP to use as little power/resources possible so that my laptop would run faster and longer(I got a bad battery). With win98SE on it I can watch movies for about 1/2 to 1 hour before it dies. However, with WinXP I can use notepad for 5-10 mins before it dies.

Also to be fair if another OS was as mainstream as windows, you would likely suddenly find some new issues with them. The good part is(at least with linux) you can fix the issues yourself rather then wait for a microsoft to release a patch. And since it would be your own special way of fixing the OS it would be harder for that particular fix to be targeted

[Ouch!]

I use Windows because I don't care enough to use anything else. Will that do?

Ditto.

[bipper]

I use internet explorer AND windows.

top that?

BANN HIM!

Micro$oft successfully beat linux in speed... that's nice. WHEN YOU THROW ALL YOUR INFORMATION INTO THE FIRST MEM ADDR YOU CAN FIND AND FRAG THE @!#@r$ OUTTA RAM THE SYSTEM CANT RUN WITH [img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img]. AHAHHAHAH DAMN YOU BILL GATES AND GEORGE W. BOO WINDOWS AND THIER DIRECT X LIBS - SUCKA!

Windows Stability, lol.

I use XP.

Bipper

[rubah]

I went nearly three years on one install of windows xp.

I have had firefox as my browser for nearly two years.

One of these days I'll pick up another harddrive and make it use linux. I ran a live cd of ubuntu 4something, but it was hard to do more than oggle xD

[Samuraid]

While I have very little against Microsoft Window XP Pro (which has been running stably on my systems for a few years now), Linux is truly a great OS for many different uses.

Windows has its place, but Linux dominates in many areas. For example, I would never personally run a web/database server on Windows even if you paid me.

[Madame Adequate]

I haven't done a format/windows reinstall for probably over a year now. I'm probably on borrowed time...

I've not done that in the three and a half years I've owned this computed. No problems have occurred. I run defrag and virus checks on a regular basis, and I'm not retarded about what I download and stuff.

So whilst I'm not going to say Windows rox (It doesn't), I am going to say that I've not had an experience which caused me to want to change from Windows.

[fire_of_avalon]

I have used Windows for a long time and I have never reinstalled. But that is probably because I am lazy. Also, I don't have the time to play with other stuff, but Linux looks pretty on my friend's computer.