I've had it with Microsoft Windows

[FluffyChicken]

I keep trying linux's since BiTD and Ubuntu was good, 11.xx was just ok but it's so slow and terrible and browsers crash all the time on the machines I tried. Win7 is so far sinning along, Win8 is rough around the edges and with a mouse takes some getting used to but then it isn't finished yet

Recent updates on two of my computers to ubuntu 12.xx, a laptop and desktop, rendered them unbootable in different ways. Off it came and i'll leave ubuntu alone again for another year or so. I really don't want to go back to compiling kernels and fixing things at the console.

 

[Raging_Bulls]

Oh, getting used to it is not the problem. I think it's brilliant. However it'll only work properly on Windows due to the lack of drivers for Ubuntu.

 

[cyfa2809]

Oh, getting used to it is not the problem. I think it's brilliant. However it'll only work properly on Windows due to the lack of drivers for Ubuntu.

Isnt that platform supposed to bea easy to write your own drivers and all that stuff on?

 

[gregs656]

I'm tempted to call it the best OS Microsoft ever made.

I think you are very much in the minority with that one, even microsoft basically accept it was a complete cock up!

I switched to mac just before Vista came in, and I recommend any one who is considering it to do the same. As a complete package they are fantastic.

 

[highlandsflyer]

Win7 rocks. In every single way. Horses for courses. For the novice, Macs work well in terms of simplicity. At the other end of the scale they exploit their proprietary nature well to provide solutions to focussed high end users.

Windows Seven has brought so much to the table in terms of compatibility, (with other W7 machines), and ease of use it puts most prior iterations of Windows in the shade.

I would struggle to argue for other operating systems given a decent spec machine.

 

[Rusty Scrubber]

 

[integerspin]

I ran linux when the alternative was win 3.1, not much of an alternative.
I have been using XP since 2002 and it's not crashed on me.

 

[Neil]

Oh, getting used to it is not the problem. I think it's brilliant. However it'll only work properly on Windows due to the lack of drivers for Ubuntu.

Isnt that platform supposed to bea easy to write your own drivers and all that stuff on?

If you're a systems programmer, and familiar with C - then maybe so, but the average user? Not a hope.

 

[Neil]

I ran linux when the alternative was win 3.1, not much of an alternative.
I have been using XP since 2002 and it's not crashed on me.

Another vote for XP - although I use Windows 7 a fair amount, I also use XP quite a lot, and don't have any issues with stability, slowness, or lack of performance.

The way I see it, until quite recent times, it was an awful lot easier for Windows users to shoot themselves in the foot, by installing - or letting things install - that cause issues - and as a result, over time it was much more likely for the desktop and browser environment to get bogged down with all sorts of rubbish.

Not letting "normal" users run with any privilege (like admin) clears up a helluva lot of those issues, as does not letting things install, or suggestions, or ticked options, when you actually install something you definitely want.

 

[JamesM]

Off topic I know but my PC at work has got more poke than the Starship Enterprise!!! :mrgreen: