points one and two are mostly correct.however I'm not convinced about the later.
I have a number of other reasons for disliking M$ (in general): I have an opposition to some of their business practices, the endless litigation etc.
Second, I don't like things which try and think for me. If I have a problem I want to understand its cause, change a line in a config file and have it fixed for good. This is somewhat difficult (in my experience, which I have to admit is limited) of windows.
Yes windows is an accessible os that can be made to do a decent job, although I think that it could be made to do a better job. And linux happens to suit what I want to do with it fairly well.
But it's the internet. I can't help but get pissy with other os/distros. :)
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I have a number of other reasons for disliking M$ (in general): I have an opposition to some of their business practices, the endless litigation etc.
Second, I don't like things which try and think for me. If I have a problem I want to understand its cause, change a line in a config file and have it fixed for good. This is somewhat difficult (in my experience, which I have to admit is limited) of windows.
Yes windows is an accessible os that can be made to do a decent job, although I think that it could be made to do a better job. And linux happens to suit what I want to do with it fairly well.
But it's the internet. I can't help but get pissy with other os/distros. :)
I understand what you are sayingand you know I play with all sorts of gear so I do have half a clue.
What I'm trying to say is that an inherant hatred for M$ has nothing to do with how well their products work.
I'm no fanboy but as a windows user since3.0 ( and even had a play with 1.0 ) Vista 32 is currently the most stable and efficient mass market OS to be found.
(What I'm trying to say is that an inherant hatred for M$ has nothing to do with how well their products work.
I'm no fanboy but as a windows user since3.0 ( and even had a play with 1.0 ) Vista 32 is currently the most stable and efficient mass market OS to be found.
Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice,
Fri 6 Mar 2009, 23:12,
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It is true that a hatred for M$ doesn't make their products badI think that if microsoft abandoned some of their dodgy practices (ie buying the competition and whatever else the corporate side gets in trouble for) and focused on r&d (which it seems no one wants to do these days) they could make really good software.
I remember using windows 3.0 on top of MSDOS 5.0. I don't think I ever saw 1.0 but I might have on a demo machine. Strangly though I spent most of my time trying to program utilities in msqbasic so I can't say I used the gui very much.
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Fri 6 Mar 2009, 23:33,
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I remember using windows 3.0 on top of MSDOS 5.0. I don't think I ever saw 1.0 but I might have on a demo machine. Strangly though I spent most of my time trying to program utilities in msqbasic so I can't say I used the gui very much.
the trouble with most unixOS' is that they don't look any better than windoes did 25 years ago ( when they stole their gui from Xerox )
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Fri 6 Mar 2009, 23:51,
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