Relieve your hate of Microsoft

[Pink]

I've been a user from Win3.1 via Win3.11, Win95B/C, Win98SE, NT4, Win2k (stuck on this one until XP was SP2), WinXPSP2 and then I installed Vista, that lasted 3 months and then I installed OpenSuse10.3/11.0/11.1. Not looked back.

I'm looking forward to trying Windows 7 as a replacement on my work laptop for the VistaX64 that's currently on it as vista just sucks. I never liked XP but in comparison to Vista it was a good OS.

When it comes down to it I've never liked much that's come out of the Microsoft campus but they do appear to be improving in a number of ways. Vista was a big game of catchup for them and there are still many features that were promised in Vista that I'd really like to see them do (Particularly WinFS, as NTFS is the suck and Microsoft seem incapable of writing an efficient indexing system for the file system). Unfortunately windows 7 is not going to include WinFS, or any of the promised gadget/mashup integration as far as I can tell. It would seem it's Vista 'done right' from what I have heard and seen.

KDE4.2 (My current home desktop environment) rocks. More eyecandy than Vista or Mac, more ability to integrate into external services (data engines rock) and pretty much a 100% configurable desktop. I'm even going as far as keeping an eye on KDEWin and always have an up to date release of that so that the day I can replace Vista's sucky shell it's going to be as simple as a one line registry hack. Even if Win7 fixes that (and it looks like to some extent it might) I might still replace the explorer shell with plasma.

Microsoft do suck, but simply and only because they are a corporation and corporations are out for one thing, to make money. Google are no different. Microsoft's tactics over the years though are probably more questionable than most in the software arena.

You have options. You don't have to eat at the Microsoft table, unless you really are only interested in playing the latest game releases. Isn't that what consoles are for though?

Long Live AmigaOS :) (still, even now, my favourite)

[PicassoCT]

9 Billion People, they will get bread and Games for free, or they will rage-quit civilisation..

So where will those oversized Companys like EA walk?
Plank!
Plank!
Plank!

[Wombat]

lol @ EA and their NfS series, everything same but new pair of tits. i dont mind EA to die. so many good ideas fooked :<

[Jazcash]

[Wombat]

i dont get anything like this, u got emo windows, its all lies !

[Jazcash]

i dont get anything like this, u got emo windows, its all lies !

It's ok, you're still young. You wouldn't have been able to get a full experience of Windows yet.

[Wombat]

sorz, i prefer closer relationships with human beings, than machies or software... "Hai imah Jaz, imah 16 y oldz, wannah cyberzexorz?<333"

[tizbac]

why use a cheap OS like windoze when you can use unix based OSes that are a lot more powerful and stable?

[Wombat]

maybe coz windoze is easier to use for nubz like me ^^

also try to convince ur mom or anyone else for linux... i wanted to show project for my job, made in ubuntu and everyone was like 'wtf is that, how do i use that, waah waah !'

[SinbadEV]

I use windows for the following reasons:

I prefer Microsoft Office 2003 to OpenOffice
I'm too cheap to buy a mac and too lazy to try to hack a copy of MacOS onto an Intel PC
When I put a disk into my computer I don't have to mount it before I can use it.
If the power goes out I don't have to spend a day re-building my system.
It's familiar.
There are a lot more and better games available for Windows.
Many hardware devices just work when I plug them in, and if not I can easily find drivers online without a headache.

Many of those same reasons can explain why I use XP over Vista.

[Jazcash]

Hai imah Jaz, imah 16 y oldz, wannah cyberzexorz?<333

[Super Mario]

why use a cheap OS like windoze when you can use unix based OSes that are a lot more powerful and stable?

Like the mac for example. (If you have the money that is).

[Super Mario]

The last pic looks like the user is running a mac OS.

wait just a sec.....

[CarRepairer]

There are a lot more and better games available for Windows.
Many hardware devices just work when I plug them in, and if not I can easily find drivers online without a headache.

Many of those same reasons can explain why I use XP over Vista.

This statement would have made sense in 2007. It is not applicable anymore. Vista is as supported as XP (sometimes exclusively - one example I was looking at is nvidia 3d stereo drivers, another is of course directx 10) for everything new that comes out.

[tombom]

Vista is great unless you're using an old shitty computer.

If the power goes out I don't have to spend a day re-building my system.

What does this even refer to?

Many hardware devices just work when I plug them in, and if not I can easily find drivers online without a headache.

Linux is actually really good at this and I imagine Mac OS X is too. Pretty much everything just works.

When I put a disk into my computer I don't have to mount it before I can use it.

Pretty much every distro has automount enabled sensibly.

I prefer Microsoft Office 2003 to OpenOffice.
There are a lot more and better games available for Windows.

Both very true. Linux with a good distro is actually a really nice OS, it's a shame a lot of the software is shit/doesn't work.

[AF]

I find theres still a lot of situations under linux were a trip to a shell and executing a command are still necessary steps under linux. If I'm an end user, I dont want to boot up a terminal and compile a wifi driver, or configure and install ndiswrapper, or tell it which button is which on my mouse

[Deutscha]

UK sucks and the United States too!!

Only Germany is holy :)

[Snipawolf]

Deutschbag...

[PicassoCT]

Yawn, Germantroll versus UKvs US.. if they atleast showed some trolling skill, started the flamewar, hiding it as a discussion, would add some fuel ingridients like ethicddebates, and lay some triggermines, so that another poster would blow it up...

But this is ridicolous, this is childish, this gets met into rages, for lacktrollskill.. off with his Head.

[ChaosMonkey]

picasso is a poo head