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From: stermen
Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 16:29
Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 16:29
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-- All at $ 1 -- Find everything from $ 1 clik here: http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?type=1&campid=5336189855&toolid=10001&customid= "Bluuuue Rajah" <Bluuuuue@Rajah.> ha scritto nel messaggio news:Xns9B7AB9C822192fdgdfjhsrtg@207.115.17.102... > > Everybody rightly criticizes Micro$tiff for selling a crappy OS, and > Linux is obviuosly better, if you have the time and the expertise to use > in it, but until this week I didn't understand exaclty why Windows is > such a POS. > > When I had to uninstall the Google toolbar because Google installed an > update tht I didn't ask for, which overrode IE5's ctrl-f command, the > reason beame clear. Windows' install/uninstall method causes bugs to > accumulate, if programs are not ununstalled in precise the reverse order > of which they were installed. > > The problem is that terrible method of saving old copies of system > files, like .ini files, as backups, to be restored when software is > uninstalled. So the more apps you uninstall, out of order, the buggier > your system becomes, until you finally have to reinstall the OS. > > Linux apparently doesn't have anything resembling this problem, which > makes me wonder, how did the Linux designers (Torvald?) handle this > problem, and can we learn anything from their solution to help minimize > the problem with Windows? > > Your thoughts?
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