re: XP (and whatever MS OS) vs various non-MS
Friday, August 22, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(3936 messages posted)
|Personally, I've DONE my time in the *Nix Zone, back when PCs were still "Microcomputers",
| Kiwi
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It should be obvious that the individual posting this is a VERY experienced user
and knows how to use Windoze AND HOW *NOT* TO USE WINDOZE.
His knowledge will not necessarily extrapolate across the broad spectrum of users.
|and I've run my tests of several *Nuxes.
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...and it's so easy to try one when you can **run** the distro from a CD.
|Windows98 was a nice little OS
|that happened to need a reinstall a couple of times a year;
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Which 99.999% of its users won't do prophilacticly.
...and you're laying on the hyperbole just a bit thick. 8-)
|I still like it better than Linux,
|on a "scale of being nicer to use" than most OSes.
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Linux improves daily.
With its many *variants*, there is likely one that suits any need one might have.
Now, _finding_ that one among all the possibilities could be an issue. 8-)
There are a lot of converts to Linux (e.g. Kubuntu)
who don't notice a dime's worth of difference from Windoze for the tasks they do.
(It's easier to convert if you've used Firefox, OpenOffice, Inkscape, VLC, GAIM,
Audacity, etc. under Windoze before taking The Big Plunge.)
For the majority of folks,
the various flavors of Ubuntu are easier to install than Windoze[1][2]
(and don't suffer from Windows Rot, so they don't need constant re-installing
--and a big reason is that they don't use the stupid *Windows Registry* notion).
...and there's the *Linux security patches being issued as needed* thing
--unlike EoL'd M$ stuff.
(The *You almost never need to reboot unless you replace the kernel* thing
is really cool too.)
|It just doesn't happen to be as useful to me, personally, any longer,
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Like I said: Having choices is a Good Thing(tm).
If the EoL thing that happens with payware doesn't affect what someone does,
more power to him.
Ironically, many of the folks still using 9x
are exactly the folks who SHOULDN'T be
--and for many of those, *gratis* would be a boon--if they KNEW about it.
|as any of the WinNT variants are. I do miss using it.
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Since MSFT decided EVERYTHING would be GUI-based,
having few command line utilities for batch operations is a big sore point for Micros~1.
...and with Win9x, you have to work around 8.3 paths for CLI stuff.
Again, Free Software augments what Micro$oft offers--e.g.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Bash.For.Windows
Being able to install a distro on 8 dozen boxes
without having to pay for a single license is something the warez guys envy.
"Rockin' on without Microsoft" -- A story of Ernie Ball, Inc. and Linux
cache of http://www.getopenoffice.org/ernieball.html
[1] Can you say "Reboot. Reboot. Reboot."?
(Again: the stupid Windows Registry.)
[2] Can you say "Windows Product Key"?
Can you say "Windows Product Activation"?
Can you say "Windows Genuine Advantage"?
Note: 2 of those refer to the *current* generations of Windoze.
The biggest PITA for users of older versions of Windoze
is having to chase down device drivers.
(Linux does hardware support better than Windoze
--especially in its out-of-the-box config.)
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