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Why do you hate Windows (especially Vista)?
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Too true! the NT file system is aging and really needs a replacement. I'd like to see them adopt something compatible with other contenders in the OS market.
Certain people obviously don't have as much time on their hands as you do and do have the legitimate expectation for their machine to just work. There are also some people do know how to maintain a Windows install but chose not to because they have better things to do with their lives.
Dido
OS X is just the correct fit for me. I spent years customizing windows to my liking and when a friend let me mess around with his mac, I was completely shocked. OS X does all the stuff out of the box that I have been wanting my PC to do. Now my old PC is a Ginnie pig for all my experiments (I think I've installed the 3 major operating systems on it, now its running windows 7)!
Unfortunately, I do remember. Ugh...
Boot up, crash, repeat several times. Take coffee break.
Come back boot up, celebrate that it didn't crash, and open up word processor, oops, crash. Oh well. Go to lunch.
Boot up, open up word processor, start typing, oops, crash. Take second coffee break.
Eventually finish one page form letter for your boss, show it to her, and print, oops, Windows won't talk to printer. Just call it a day and try and print up form tomorrow.
That was a day in the life of a civil servant, GS-5 Computer employee, me, and I never felt more stupid in my life. Then I re-entered the Macintosh world and everything was at my fingertips, real productivity, how about that?
Two words: high maintenance.
Running a smooth installation of Windows is more time consuming than caring for a child. It's starts when you buy a new computer and you have to spend several hours cleaning all that nasty virus stuff disguised as shareware apps. Then you have to defrag and all that until it gets to the point where you have no other choice than to format the HD. And of course there's all that virus and spyware cleanup and the annoying tendency to stall when only one application has crashed.
But I guess that underneath it's a real lovely OS.
Running a smooth installation of Windows is more time consuming than caring for a child. It's starts when you buy a new computer and you have to spend several hours cleaning all that nasty virus stuff disguised as shareware apps. Then you have to defrag and all that until it gets to the point where you have no other choice than to format the HD. And of course there's all that virus and spyware cleanup and the annoying tendency to stall when only one application has crashed.
But I guess that underneath it's a real lovely OS.
I dont hate vista. I dislike it when it doesnt work as well as OSX. OsX is just better and more in sync
Two words: high maintenance.
Running a smooth installation of Windows is more time consuming than caring for a child. It's starts when you buy a new computer and you have to spend several hours cleaning all that nasty virus stuff disguised as shareware apps. Then you have to defrag and all that until it gets to the point where you have no other choice than to format the HD. And of course there's all that virus and spyware cleanup and the annoying tendency to stall when only one application has crashed.
But I guess that underneath it's a real lovely OS.
I might like to point out how weak, pointless and full of miss information your argument is.
Basic system maintaince on a windows computer can and is reducible to near Zero. To get that point takes 15 mins.
1. Install AV software set a weekly autoscan (normally 3 AM).
2. Set Windows update to Auto download and install updates at 3am (default setting)
3. Use firefox but for the most part IE works just follow step 4 below and apply to Active X controls.
4. Practice basic safe internet use- do not open or install questionable programs (same pratice applies to OSX.)
There that solves 95-99% of the so called problems with windows.
To do the list above to set up and do. maybe 15 mins. Longest being the AV software set up and even then the autoscan weekly is a default setting.....
I set that up on my parents and my grandparents computer and OMG no real problems. My personal windows desktop runs under the same set up. Just I mess with a few more things and run spot checks every now and then but it is a very basic set it and forget it. about 1 once every 6 months I check my parents computer and in 3-4 years on both system never really had a problem.
wow you complain when Microsoft did that but when apple (switching to OSX) did it people praised them for it.... typical.....
Two words: high maintenance.
Running a smooth installation of Windows is more time consuming than caring for a child. It's starts when you buy a new computer and you have to spend several hours cleaning all that nasty virus stuff disguised as shareware apps. Then you have to defrag and all that until it gets to the point where you have no other choice than to format the HD. And of course there's all that virus and spyware cleanup and the annoying tendency to stall when only one application has crashed.
But I guess that underneath it's a real lovely OS.
Couldn't agree more. No more AVG, Ad-Aware, SpyBot, CCleaner etc! Yay!
Well I'm an apple fanboy, what can I say
. But I'm still not convinced. I don't have to do any of that with my mac. Installing and configuring an anti virus takes more time than I'm willing to spend (the computer is supposed to serve me, not the other way around). Besides, my real problem is the apparent "wear" that occurs to the OS the more time you spend with it. Granted, my mac is slower than the day I installed Leopard, but it hasn't slowed down as much as my PC at work. Either way, I'm just exaggerating for humor's sake. I use Windows everyday, but I just really, really prefer OS X.
The irony is that our IT Techs at work had to go make every desktop node suffer through FOUR forced patch-&-reboots this past monday.
Each one of those SysAdmin remote reboots imposed a 15 minute lockout, which was in addition to the actual reboot time.
-hh
Then you IT techs are idiots. There is a reason why IT departments do there updates over night. My company gives us warning before hand when the system is going to be down (always later at night and if possible over the weekend) and general the warning is to tell us to leave our computer on over night which for most people is not a problem. We never turn them off any how.
Ahh... Memories.Boot up, crash, repeat several times. Take coffee break.
Come back boot up, celebrate that it didn't crash, and open up word processor, oops, crash. Oh well. Go to lunch.
Boot up, open up word processor, start typing, oops, crash. Take second coffee break.
Eventually finish one page form letter for your boss, show it to her, and print, oops, Windows won't talk to printer. Just call it a day and try and print up form tomorrow.
That was a day in the life of a civil servant, GS-5 Computer employee, me, and I never felt more stupid in my life. Then I re-entered the Macintosh world and everything was at my fingertips, real productivity, how about that?
Now it's the perpetual Microsoft Update, and hope that none fail.
Some of them are too big. The .NET and SP3 come to mind under XP. All in all, I can usually find some annoyance with anything computer related though. OS or hardware.
1) I hate how file searching on XP is less functional than Sherlock on OS 9. Windows only recognizes files of certain types (.doc's, .rtf's, etc.). Transfer a hard disk full of alien files and Windows refuses to index them. Sherlock could find anything anywhere. Pretty sad for Redmond to get shown up by OS 9. And if Redmond wants people to switch from Mac to PC, they ought to anticipate they'll bring their proprietary file formats with them.
2) I hate the little boxes that pop up to tell you things that are already on the screen. Open a window on the desktop and if you mouse over a file, a little box pops up to tell you file size and creation date, etc., and it's already on the screen.
3) I hate how the alt key activates menu crap.
4) What's the deal with Word shutting down when there's no window? And what's the deal with Excel staying open when there's no window?
5) The Windows implementation of alt-tabbing (cycle thru each doc) is for sissies who only have three or four windows open at time. The Mac version (cycle thru each app) is much more productive.
mt
2) I hate the little boxes that pop up to tell you things that are already on the screen. Open a window on the desktop and if you mouse over a file, a little box pops up to tell you file size and creation date, etc., and it's already on the screen.
3) I hate how the alt key activates menu crap.
4) What's the deal with Word shutting down when there's no window? And what's the deal with Excel staying open when there's no window?
5) The Windows implementation of alt-tabbing (cycle thru each doc) is for sissies who only have three or four windows open at time. The Mac version (cycle thru each app) is much more productive.
mt
Don't you just love the error message: "Windows must shut down Windows." That's a triumph of 21st Century American engineering, right there.
mt
I agree with all your points but this is by far the most annoying for me. I'm sick of accidentally pressing it in the heat of a game only to jump right back to my desktop. NO. That's not good MS and it would be nice if you could give us an option to stop it during fullscreen apps. How difficult would that be?
I've got a regedit hack that stops it working full stop, but I like to use windows+D to jump to the desktop.
I hate that when I restart my PC and log into my account, it takes at least 5 minutes before I can use anything because it's starting all the services and opening the couple applications I have set to open at startup.
