Problems with people.. 1) people say windows sucks, yet still use it? 2) people say widnows sucks, yet they would have like 256ram lol .. and think its the os's problem 3) people say windows vista blows, probly because they have a 256 ram pc and try to run it.. 4) people say Mac has less virues, over xp? well tahts because no hacker wants to make one for mac.. it be a waste of time.. 5) people say windows suck, when they keep going to adult sites / use limwire and stuff and get loads of virues which slow down the system... Want no lag? no crashing? work at mcdonalds for a month.. then using the money.. go buy a sweet 5 grand pc.. you will hve no problems with 8gb ram/video memory, quad core 6600 and like 1tb memmory and you will be (just like me )
It depends on hardware too. I had reinstalled windows too many times to count until I started working on a Lenovo laptop, (formerly IBM). XP is finally stable for me after years of...well, you know how the story goes. I will not work on anything else from here on out.
Windows makes life much easier.... Ever try using LINUX? Its a pain in the ass...and no good software works with it.
That sounds like the best alternative right now for Windows. I have not tried it yet, but I hear it is a bit easier to use than regular Linux, which sadly I was not that good with. I basically ran Linux for the server features. Right now Windows suits my needs as I play a lot of online games. Until something else comes out that is able to emulate DirectX and play most games, I will be stuck playing on Windows for now. I make it a point not to buy Microsoft products, but this is one I am stuck with. I refuse to buy Vista as it is a POS. I have it on a work machine and it is always giving me problems, even with other Microsoft products installed in the system...stay away from Vista.
Alot of people will tell you that if you have a crappy system than vista will work like crap..... Vista works very well with high performing systems......2 GB ram...dual core...good vid card...and your set. Vista actually monitors your usage..and changes itself to adapt your usage history.... But again...work computers usually are crap....so thats why your vista experience might be bad....but if you have a good system...then Vista is definitely for you.
Just because something is free doesn't mean it's not good. Firefox -> Internet Explorer PHP -> ASP Apache -> IIS Just some examples.
The next version of Windows is going to be a lot better because they are going to try and cut down on how much system resources the system uses instead of throwing more stuff at the processor like they've done with past releases.
i'd still go for windows no matter what.. i really dunno whether you cn play a lot of games on linux though.. it'd be sad if you can't
That makes 3 people in the world. Anyways i agree with this but i dont agree with your language...no need to be rude about it. Although i would love a mac aswell.
Good work. You're a douchebag. You're just pissed you can't afford a mac so you're trying to defend windows. I'm not a Mac fanboy (I used Windows for like 10 years) but I seriously hate it when people try to prove how big their e-penis is by bagging out an OS they probably haven't used for more than 5 minutes. Stop being a douchebag, get off the internet, and get a life.
I would say you're an idiot, but rather you're just ignorant. Windows is the most used operating system, I won't dispute that at all, it's the most supported operating system, and it has the most software and hardware that is compatible out of the box with it, that isn't in question. The thing is that Windows is popular, because, well it's popular. It got big because of DOS and then Windows 3/3.1/3.11, and because people are used to it and it's the most widespread, people continue to purchase it and write for it because they're used to it, and it's where the market it. Don't confuse popularity with superiority. AIDs is pretty popular but it's still not something I'd like to get Mac's biggest problem is exactly what you said, that it looks pretty. They don't market it for its power, and the fact that Mac OSX has finally turned the suck off on Macs as a whole, but they know people are gullible and idiots as a whole, so they market things that are shiny, pretty, and almost impossible to fuck up. I was a big Mac basher for years, but recently I've had to change my tone. Mac OSX has been rewritten from the ground up, and it's using a FreeBSD Unix kernel (known for its superior performance and security). Mac in the recent years, has pretty much kicked Window's ass in a lot of things, but they're only slowly getting market shares back, and it's pluses and minuses are much misunderstood. You completely alienated everything that wasn't Mac and Windows, you're completely forgetting Linux. Granted Linux is not the most user friendly, and in that race you're completely right in saying that it isn't for everyone, but to rule it out entirely is a mistake, especially unless you've given it at least 3-6 months and real work. Ubuntu gets labeled as "linux" these days, and while it is a very popular (and arguably the top dog right now), there are many other distributions. Linux as far as servers go, kicks Window's ass hands down. There isn't a comparison, whatsoever, and it's entirely free. Clear and simple, Windows sucks for servers (yet it does handle better than Mac, hence Mac may run windows or linux servers for their websites). To the argument that Linux is mainly a server system, that's like saying pickup trucks are mainly for hauling things. While that is true to a point, people everyday use them to drive to and from work, to pick up their kids, and statistically they get used for non hauling purposes more times than they get used for hauling things. Linux makes a bad-ass desktop system, I prefer it over Windows hands down, and Windows Vista has "stolen" many things that Linux has been doing for years. As far as 64bit goes, Linux has had 64 bit versions for 10+ years, I was thinking early 90s, where as windows xp for 64bit just came out a couple of years ago, and I have used it: it's a piece of shit and nothing runs on it. The clear and simple fact is that Windows has a much larger budget, and is more popular, but has more bugs, is less secure, and is the only 1 of the 3 that actually has viruses. Don't get me wrong, I have to use my Windows XP distro to run a few things that I can't on Linux (although with VMWare I can but I choose not to), but I still prefer Linux hands down (most more advanced users who have had a lot of experience with both do), and I like having more power and control to my system, not to mention that I can see a huge difference in speed and performance, and I never have to worry about opening a file that is going to delete or fuck up my files Way to have a completely moronic skew on the reality of things. I say Windows sucks: I use it mainly because I write software and I need to write cross-platform. Linux is my main OS. I say Windows itself sucks, not because of 256mb ram, I actually just built a killer quad core, 4gb ram system and it owns. Vista blows because... well it's a piece of shit, it's second only to windows ME in my books, and it's just a worthless piece of software that they're forcing on the public. Mac doesn't have viruses because... and here's the kicker... it now uses a FreeBSD Kernel! Yay for Unix! The very worst you could do, and this goes for linux as well, is have something that if run, could fuck up some of your user files (unless of course you're a fucking idiot and you run everything as root or you just don't know what you're doing at all and give permissions to things that don't need extra permissions). And you know what, if I'm on Windows and I feel like looking at porn or downloading shit from Limewire, who fucking cares? I should be able to do so without having to worry about the state of my computer. I can do both of those on Linux or Mac without the equivalent problems, so in that case: Windows is the worst of the 3. Yet again the ramblings of an uninformed individual who has most likely not spent more than a few minutes (if any time at all), on Linux. I could just as easily argue that "no good software works with windows". In most cases though, things written on Linux are written properly (cross-platofmr wise) so it can work elsewhere. There is an asston of stuff that works with Linux, and I guarantee any program you can find for Windows, I can find an equivalent for Linux (usually free too, and in my book that makes it better if they're anywhere near equal in quality, which generally they are). Play with it a bit more, and realize that you can google and find software to install rather than looking in your applications menu and not seeing it and having the urge to denounce it all together. Good job for not doing your homework and making an ignorant and uniformed argument. I've been hearing that shit for years. The biggest problem is they keep trying to make it prettier and not taking into account that not everyone wants to sacrifice 50% of their PC for stupid visuals that some of us don't even like. Windows Vista was supposed to be this awesome OS that could install in 10 minutes, ran like a beast, had an amazing new filesystem that gave NTFS and anything Linux had a run for their money, not to mention great networking and application stability. The end result: empty promises, and most of these got dropped halfway through the dev process. I was actually proud of Microsoft for willing to step up and make their stuff worth the money they charge, but it looks like I got my hopes up only to be disappointed: reason #2937492374 I avoid Microsoft products.
Windows is very bad for command line interface, which is inferior to the free Linux. I like Linux because of it's well built command line interface. Windows is for beginners, Linux is for more Experienced users. Also there are a variety of Linux distribution to choose from. Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu, Fedora.. just to name a few. I like Debian the most because of it's system structure for servers and it's high end security. Also, alot of stuff related for servers is more suited for Linux anyways. Linux requires less resources to run apache, php, mysqld. Also, I like how Linux can fully operate with just a black screen. How cool is that? Nevertheless you can install a desktop if needed.
Here here. I love that anything you can do with a graphic frontend, you can do with the console. It also makes multitasking a bit easier when I can be inside KDE or Gnome and work with a couple console windows and a graphical format at the same time. If I'm on windows, first thing I do is log into to my server with putty just in case I need to do something.