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| Why Windows? [message #74430] |
Sun, 28 March 2004 18:05   |
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kopaka649
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its called lindows and it sux
they charge you money for a linux distro crappier than the rest and call it an easy switch from windows cuz of their click and run crap(which you also have to pay for)
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| Why Windows? [message #74432] |
Sun, 28 March 2004 18:06 |
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IRON FART
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Location: LOS ANGELES
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Almost every computer in the world uses windows because of stupid people.
Literally. Stupid people.
MS markets windows primarily to those who are too dumb to know what windows is even. Some people are so computer-stupid that they do not know when they are getting ripped off. So the obvious choice when you want a computer is to run over to Dell or Gateway, and spend your money on a Windows OS computer. They don't know of any other OS. Linux, Mac and many other OS's remain unused by the majority of people.
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<[Digital]> get man_fucking_a_car.mpg
<[Digital]> ah fuck wrong window
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| Why Windows? [message #74479] |
Sun, 28 March 2004 20:30 |
xptek_disabled
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I dont use Windows, I use OSX, I run Windows in VirtualPc as more of a suplement...
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always hear jokes that Mac uses use Mac OS because they are too stupid.
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I'd love to see you navigate the terminal... 
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| Why Windows? [message #74566] |
Mon, 29 March 2004 06:37 |
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Scythar
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Location: Finland
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Ah, I guess it was just a matter of time until the OS fight topics came here too...
All OS's have their pros and cons, Linux is good for some things, and in some other stuff, Windows is superior to Linux.
There's a hole in the sky through which things can fly.
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| Why Windows? [message #74623] |
Mon, 29 March 2004 13:40 |
NHJ BV
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BTW 3.11 was still a DOS shell.
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Wasn't Windows 95/98 and maybe even 2000 still a DOS shell with a graphical interface?
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| Why Windows? [message #74633] |
Mon, 29 March 2004 14:09 |
dal11
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Location: St. Louis
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Kinda but they integrated the graphics into it so that the os was useless without the gui. Btw sun...? solaris is a unix(linux's big bro) os, wich is being abandoned by sun in favor of....?Linux!! All of Sun's upcoming workstations are going to be linux based. So the question is wich person are you windows?(it's not going away....ever) or linux(wich needs lots of work to make it more user freindly). We my freinds are in a world now dominated by pc's. Even stupid people need to be able to use them. Wich is what MS markets to makes for, and linux needs to gravitate to, if it ever wants to compete with windows.
(BIG strides in the last few distros have done this but still more is needed). Even Mac os is unix based now. The days of old are long gone in having to understand how it works to use it. The day will never come when just one platform will exist.
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| Why Windows? [message #74649] |
Mon, 29 March 2004 14:48 |
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2000 is natively NTFS but could be installed as a FAT32 and possibly FAT16. But DOS/95 are FAT and 95OSR2/98/98SE/ME are FAT32
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NTFS = New Technology Filing System
NTFS is simply a filing sytem(partion type) it has nothing to do with whether the OS is based on DOS or not.
If MS wanted to they could have released a new version of DOS that could read and write to NTFS partitions but it would still be DOS. **
The deciding factor is not the partition type, but how the OS interacts with the hardware, In Windows 3.11, windows just made DOS calls and it was DOS that made the hardware calls. In Windows NT based OS'es the windows NT kernel makes direct calls to the hardware without going through a DOS layer.
** - I think there may have been some third party software that can do this.
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| Why Windows? [message #74655] |
Mon, 29 March 2004 15:21 |
xptek_disabled
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Windows and Mac are meant to be user friendly OSs for the majority of society which still consists of more computer illiterate people then computer literate.
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I have found quite the opposite. Macs are for video editing professionals, graphics artists, and 3d artists. A PC simple can't compare when performing these tasks. Contrary to popular belief, Macs are far from easy to use, at this point in development, the Aqua interface is plaged with bugs and cosmetic problems and feels sluggish at times. That's why I choose to use KDE instead.
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? Is it so hard for some other company to create something else or something similar that would be compatible with windows and other programs? Almost everibody knows that Windows sucks. It is like if everi car used the same engine, and almost no one would even dream of creating other engines, except maybe few that would be incopatible with the cars that use the first engine. I know that compatibility is a big issue, but look at CD-Roms: Every CD-Rom drive (made by any company)can read almost all kinds of CDs made by different companies. If this works with CD-Rom drives, it should work with Windows, and any other OS.
