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I hate XP

Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 3:40 am
by swiftouch
My brother recently purchased an 24 inch IMac. I am amazed at the ease of networking. Not only did his computer see mine, He can click and grab files from it faster than I can even click Start-->My Network Places on my Windows machine. Not only that, PSD files have thumbnails by default!

:x

I just reinstalled windows for the 2nd time on my laptop, because networking had become a slow monstrous beast. Not only was connecting to another windows machine a pain in my keister, it also was causing me to be unproductive at work because of all the anomalies associated with a problem that has no concrete cause.

I hate windows. Has networking ever worked painlessly? Correctly? All the time? Has anyone ever come up with a solution to those anomalies that occur seemingly monthly where networking blows up, my computer connects slowly, and productivity comes to a standstill?
Why does my co-worker who has Vista still complain daily of the problems he has had/is having with networking??

Why does Microsoft, who has billions upon billions, create such a POS unstable system?

Why does Microsoft not care? Why can't they build an operating system that works??

Barring my 228k mile honda accord doesn't break down(again) in the next three months, I'm buying a Mac. Then I'm taking out my Windows OEM discs and bid them fairwell as I chop them up into little pieces, grind them into dirt, seal them in an envelope and mail them off to Mr. Dumb-as Gates. At least that's how I feel right now as my brother surfs the contents of my computer, while my little "trying real hard, while nothing happens" computer, complains, groans, belches, puffs, snorts, contorts, backfires, and takes 5 minutes to come back with a "unable to connect message"....

I give up. Windows has never worked when it has come to networking. And as networking is the fruit by which I am productive or not, this is just beyond unacceptable.

I'm done with this non-productivity suite called Windows. Hells Bells Microsoft, just give me and operating system that works!

Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 4:28 am
by Maugrim_The_Reaper
Run a little AC DC in the background and you have a great podcast ;). You can increase your voice pitch and bang out a right one.

But seriously, Windows has problems - then again Linux can have its own set of problems. If a Mac or Linux box would make you more productive then go for it - I keep hearing Macs and networks are suppossedly best friends (aiming to get a Mac myself soon). I suppose, for me, I find Windows tends to overdo things. The more you simplify a task, the harder it is to dig deeper into the details. Eventually you reach a point where you're aching for some simple command line tool (assuming you're familiar with command line tools and not a life-long Windows user).

Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 8:40 am
by matthijs
Wow, great rant! Sorry to hear about your trouble. But I know the feeling. Had to install a wireless USB stick on my XP machine recently. With the original driver CD I thought it would be a matter of a few minutes.

.. I was so wrong :x

From working on my mac I had forgotten how bad stuff like that could go on windows :) It's good I have a very large monitor, because in XP, if you go to the network settings and configuration, you always end up opening more and more windows. With each click (you know, network, open new connection, wizard A, wizard B, settings, wireless network, etc etc) a new window opens. Until you have 15 open and you realize you are going in circles, opening the same ones again. Without getting any closer to the solution of your problem of course.

At one point Firefox did have internet connection, but IE6 or IE7 did not. That was the strangest thing.

In the end I did manage to get the USB stick to work though. I have absolutely no clue how.

Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 2:12 pm
by Kieran Huggins
I too will likely be buying a Mac when the MacBook redesign happens.

I'd be perfectly happy with Ubuntu on my Thinkpad if they could iron out the annoyances. Between power management just "not waking up" sometimes and my wireless drivers randomly committing sepuku it's just too unstable to use for any real period of time. Also, Linux needs a real file browser. I've tried all of them (yes: ALL OF THEM) and none work nearly as well as either Windows Explorer or Apple's Finder, which is sad :-(

Just thought I'd even out the rant a little. Anyone want to do OS X?

Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 3:48 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Kieran Huggins wrote:Anyone want to do OS X?
I'm down. When do we start?

Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 4:51 pm
by CoderGoblin
OK Have to say my other half uses Max OSX and has had loads of problems with it... Not all is plain sailing with any Operating System (OS). I personally use XP, Vista and also Ubuntu. Never has any problems with networking with any OS, including the OS X. So much is what you are actually attempting to do and how familiar you are with the OS.

Just reading overall feelings in the past 6 months so many people seem to think that Apple is heading in the same direction as Microsoft... "Don't care about the customers so long as you can get their money..."

Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 5:34 pm
by s.dot
True story here.. if you put an i in front of your product name, it will retail for $200 more than the exact same thing without the i. ;)

Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 5:35 pm
by RobertGonzalez
I personally have not had enough experience with OS X/Linux to say that it is better than Windows. I know that almost anything will be better than Window just because Windows sucks, in my opinion.

Linux is nice. I love every part of it except its handling of Wireless Networking. That still sucks as far as I am concerned. Everything else on Linux rocks.

I really want a Mac and I plan on getting one for my next machine. Then I can offer a less biased comparison to Microsoft. Though I suspect my opinion won't change much. :wink:

Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 2:33 am
by matthijs
OK Have to say my other half uses Max OSX and has had loads of problems with it... Not all is plain sailing with any Operating System (OS)
True. I've had my frustrated moments. So that's one thing to think about for any potential switcher: you will have some issues and some strange things. Only a lot less.

It's like, from a scale from 0 (worst of the worst) to 100% (THE perfect system), in my totally subjective humble opinion, XP is 40%, OS X 80%. So still 20% to go, but an experience at least twice as good.

What I've also figured out, is that a lot of the issues I come across using XP, are little annoyances. You know, you click something, a new screen pop ups and you don't understand the message. Or you don't know what to do next. So technically it all works (in the end), but the whole experience is bad. And I think some people are more sensitive to that then others. Or you don't know any better because you've never used another os.

Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 9:14 am
by Weirdan
From what I was able to grasp from this topic, the people are mostly complaining about: a) wireless networking, b) laptops. Lucky me, I don't use either of those.

Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 10:25 am
by jayshields
scottayy wrote:True story here.. if you put an i in front of your product name, it will retail for $200 more than the exact same thing without the i. ;)
Heh, imagine the headline - "Apple releases the Phone!".

On topic, as long as Direct X is Windows only, or games/hardware developers don't make things truly cross-platform, I will be using Windows.