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Anyway, check:
http://www.morefaq.com/garden/garden-26052.html
There are excellent reasons for Windows hate. Here is just one:Uly wrote:Why all the Windows hate? I've been very happy with Windows XP and don't have any problems.
That was just one among many examples. I had the same issue when my XP install needed to move to a new MOBO/CHIP architecture (hence the Vista "upgrade"). Horrors. Before that, there were the infamous Win9x distributions, which peppered a typical workday with BSODs, hangs and going for a sandwich for reboots. The smallest changes required time-wasting one-to-n sequences of three-fingered salutes (unlike my clandestine linux partition).Uly wrote:Okay, good point there. But is it that all Windows haters have suffered a similar experience?
Your experience is atypical. The life cycle of the average system is much less than 7 years. Transition to something newer will be required for you very soon. You can then compare the transition experience perhaps to that of a Mac. My upgrade from an old PowerPC-based iBook to a new Intel-based Macbook Pro involved a firewire cable and about 45 minutes. All data and apps were seamlessly transferred to the completely new architecture and OS version, without losing a single application (PowerPC emulation is built in to the Intel Macs) or file. Even the Microsoft Office apps for PowerPC worked on the new system without a hiccup. You can't tell they aren't Intel-compiled apps.Uly wrote:In conclusion, I'd say it's fine if you hate windows for reasons similar to the ones above, it's just that I've seen people hating Windows irrationally (just like some people hate the Comic Sans Font).
I haven't had any such problems since moving to Windows XP in 2004, they've basically been 7 years of happiness and just would want to state for new users that just because some people have problems with Windows, it doesn't meant that you will do.
Then I must be very lucky, since I lived the same story on 3 systems. An old Celeron 900Mhz, still alive and healthy, an Athlon 1.8Ghz that still works, and my current Q8200. All with Windows XP. [is they are way to check when a system is going to "die"? So far I've only seen specific parts die that can be replaced, not the whole system.]orgfert wrote:Your experience is atypical.
You tell me what it's about. As things now sit, I can't even perform a clean install of Vista because the installation is crashing on the new hardware during the unpacking process, going BSOD with different stop errors on each try. Presumably this is due to the Vista SP1 upgrade disk being so old it's not able to deal dynamically with "hardware of the future".Uly wrote:Is this really about "oh no! I have to reinstall my applications!"?
I'm a Mac user, but I run WinXP and Win7 in Parallels, and I haven't had too much trouble with it, either. On the other hand, I never need to do migrations (I can just copy my virtual machine from machine to machine), and the bulk of my important data is on the Apple side. I do some development work in Windows, but use it primarily for chess software.Uly wrote:I'm not going to defend Vista or Windows 7, such issues are the reasons I'm sticking with an OS from 2001. But I don't think XP should be judged on future, crappy versions.