Have just spent 40 minutes attempting to get my laptop to talk to a printer attached to the desktop in the living room.
Note the word attempting.
I *hate* windows.
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17 responses to “I hate windows!”
I thought this was going to be another of Tim’s efficiency tips – suggesting we replace them with a bit of cling-film.
You are *not* alone. Windows is a pile of poo. It’s fact.
You wait and see what she says when I swap all our machines over to Linux.
I keep telling her to get a copy of her beloved OS/2, will she listen to me…
I’ll stay silent on this one. Oops…
You sound just like our Alix! Boy, does he hate Windows!
Well, get a Mac then! 😉
Debbie (who has hated PCs ever since they were invented)
Aaargh Tim, not linux on the desktop! It’s not ready for that yet; on servers yes (debian in this house), but not on the desktop.
And, just in case you *are* serious, other half says that the kernel for Windows is far better than the kernel for linux.
Kind of half serious….. I am thinking of test driving it so to speak.
Oh, by the way, as far as Macs go, I cannot understand what people see in them.
They look good. I love mine, and tbh it’s converted me. But then I’m not quite as techy as you so I’ll bow to your superior opinion on this one!
Well if you do Tim, then I suggest you go for something like Mandrake, or maybe SuSE although the former is more user friendly. I would also suggest that you install it on a test machine if you have a spare one doing nothing, get familiar with it (if you aren’t a competent *nix user) before installing it on your main machine to do a dual boot.
As for MACS – I am relaibly informed by someone who codes for them, that they *never* crash and you won’t ever see a BSOD. That has to be a plus 🙂
Hmm, i have occasionally seen the beachball of death though …
I think that OSX is a more stable operating system than Windows XP. Personally I find windows more intuitive to use than mac, but that will vary.
Where a PC wins for me is flexibility in terms of hardware and software – I have loads of choice in both – choice that is not so broad in terms of a MAC. So it’s horse for courses. If I were going to buy a machine just for web browsing, email, wp etc I would probably buy a mini-mac. If it is for managing and processing my images, music archive, playing games plus the above, I would buy a PC.
….and of couse Apple are now shifting to Intel processors so I don’t suppose it will be long before people run Windows on MACS or before someone hacks it so OSX can be installed on PCs.
*** pop ***
Ubuntu
*** pop ***
Claire, I worked in a web studio which had a steady stream of G4s coming into the the building, being unpacked, falling over, lying down and being dead, be repacked and sent back, so sorry, they do crash, sometimes terminally. One way and another I wouldn’t give a Mac houseroom.
Ubuntu looks rather interesting.
Oh yeah. The thing I actually hate most about Windows is the look of XP. I have switched the whole thing over so it looks like W2K, but whatever possessed them to market what to my mind looks like a Fisher Price OS.