Who Like Windows

[Nafreya]

Who actually likes windows?

[NoteMe]

I do...couldn't live without it...

[Kasracer]

It pisses me off too much

[Ideas Man]

Works wonders for me. Love them all except Windows ME.

[nemaroller]

It's where the money is!

[Nafreya]

Could you tell me which part of windows u like?

[nemaroller]

I like the messaging part. You know, when you press a button on your keyboard, and the OS sends a message to your program that there was a key pressed. That's my favorite part.

Or when you want to save something persistently, and instead of having to control the hard drive yourself, you simply ask the OS to save this data for you, and it does. And it keeps it all organized and indexed. And if you ever want it back, you say fetch, and it does all the hard work for ya. I like that part too!

[abhijit]

Windows gets a thumbs up. I don't know why people don't like windows. If you ask users (people not familiar with programming), they will give a thumbs up to windows all the time.

It didn't get popular without people loving it.

Yes it does have free drawbacks , but all in all I love it.


Cheers,
Abhijit

[visualAd]

Originally posted by abhijit
Windows gets a thumbs up. I don't know why people don't like windows. If you ask users (people not familiar with programming), they will give a thumbs up to windows all the time.

It didn't get popular without people loving it.

Yes it does have free drawbacks , but all in all I love it.


Cheers,
Abhijit

Most people who give Windows a thmubs up have only ever used Windows as an OS. The probably don't even know what an OS is or that anything better actually exists.

Windows doesn't get my vote.

[plenderj]

Originally posted by visualAd
Most people who give Windows a thmubs up have only ever used Windows as an OS. The probably don't even know what an OS is or that anything better actually exists.

"Better" is such a subjective term. If the applications, and equally important - the support for those applications - is not readily available for an alternative OS, then a company would never deploy that OS.

[NoteMe]

Originally posted by plenderj
"Better" is such a subjective term. If the applications, and equally important - the support for those applications - is not readily available for an alternative OS, then a company would never deploy that OS.

Thats mainly why I use Win. It has all the support for all the apps that I need. And my PC that uses Win2K has been on more or less 24/7 now for more then 1,5 years, and has not crached once....

[abhijit]

Originally posted by visualAd
Most people who give Windows a thmubs up have only ever used Windows as an OS. The probably don't even know what an OS is or that anything better actually exists.

Windows doesn't get my vote.

In my case I have worked with windows since 1991. ver 3.1 if I remember correctly. Now I am working with XP.

However I have also worked with other Operating Systems. Linux Mandrake (installation is a pain) compared to Windows. I went mad trying to resolve my display card and monitor resolution.
Worked with iMac Mac Os 10. Good Clean OS. Nice features and faster than windows. However the applications wre a bit too glaring to look at. IMHO, I didn't like the way IE operated on the Mac.
Worked with unix hp-os. However that was through a telnet in windows. Can't comment much on the features, except that its not user friendly working through a command line interface.

-Abhijit

[J Lindroos]

This discussion is a little bit meaningless. I mean, like it is now, who could live without windows? And I wouldn't want to loose Linux either. Both these systems are very good systems.

I think it's crap to say that windows is a crappy system. Why does everybody use it then. It's easy, user-friendly, many of the systems I use is only for windows.

Linux, its hard to use it - when you are not used to it. But as soon you got the hang of the unixworld, it's so good. X is too slow I think. But I'm mostly using the console anyway. To set up a server with linux - that's a good thing. And it's free. Not long ago I set up a mailserver with linux. It was very special, it downloads messages from different popservers, delivers them to the right mailboxes. I now have a imap that can be reached from whole the network. I'm doing a backup of the mails every night. It can be administred from the network using http and ssh. I also have webmail. And you know what - everything is for free.

So come on, be realistic. Use the systems that are available. Use them for your own special purpose. And everyone is happy.

[Evil_Cowgod]

Im not going to say which is better, because I cant really. It just seems to me that Windows is a powerful and easy to use package, and linux is more what you make of it, and can go either way. Sure Windows is expensive, but common, when was the last time you paid for software?

[Pirate]

Windows is the best platform for Programming Languages and games but sometimes , it's pain when it comes to network security .

[NoteMe]

I agree with a lot of you here...Linux is nice to have, and I don't want to loose it. But I can't use it for everything I want these days. But I still have it installed on my laptop for the things that I can do in Linux. Hope it will grow bigger and gets more applications that an everyday user can take advantage of, but forme at work and school nothing beets Windows at the moment.

[nemaroller]

Originally posted by visualAd
Most people who give Windows a thmubs up have only ever used Windows as an OS. The probably don't even know what an OS is or that anything better actually exists.

Windows doesn't get my vote.

I have used Mac OSX, Mandrake Linux & Suse Linux, and some Unix version I didn't really know the name of (generic form of it i guess). I still give Windows the vote, but I cast that vote knowing that I am most comfortable and knowledgable using Windows.

And familiarity is really what keeps Windows (and will keep it) among the most popular OS for quite some time.

I certainly would not say any OS is better than another. In the end, the OS is really just a plain vanilla utility for running program that do more productive things.

[abhijit]

Originally posted by Evil_Cowgod
Im not going to say which is better, because I cant really. It just seems to me that Windows is a powerful and easy to use package, and linux is more what you make of it, and can go either way. Sure Windows is expensive, but common, when was the last time you paid for software?

The company I work for pays for the software in my office.

[abcdefg]

Let me throw in my 2 cents. I have Operating system class and I learned a few things that make perfect sense from our book. Windows is not very good in some ways. Example 1: windows 2000 is around 29 million lines of code. Unix version at same exact time is 2 million. Windows is simply a bloated OS. Example 2: You can plug in usb devices and windows being smart finds them. Bad side is windows scans bus to find devices resulting in longer boot times every time you use your computer. Windows is nice but to make it pretty and let users click away they made it slow, big, and complex. This leads to bugs, and security holes.

[Madboy]

Without windows, i wouldnt be on the PC (never tried Unix/Linux, dont like Mac). Although at times it p****s me off, its a decent enough OS

[Sastraxi]

Without windows, you would have tried something else Madboy. It's not like you said "oh, I'll never get into computers... WAIT! It has Windows! This changes EVERYTHING!".



Anway, I didn't give windows my vote. I've lost enough data due to incompatibilities that weren't checked for by the OS at install-time that I simply can't trust it for mission-critical systems anymore.