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Bluuuue Rajah wrote:
> "philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in
> news:WbmdnV8eb4a2HdDUnZ2dnUVZ_gKdnZ2d@ntd.net: 
> 
>> "Bluuuue Rajah" <Bluuuuue@Rajah.> wrote in message
>> 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?
>>
>> I've been using Linux almost as long as I've been using Windows.
>>
>> Linux is not immune from it's own problems...
>> and unless one is very familiar with Linux...the problems can
>> sometimes be harder to sort out.
>>
>> That said, with a little bit of common sense, Windows should not
>> require a re-install.
>> I run mainly Win2k and XP and they have both been running 99% +
>> trouble free for *many* years.
> 
> You're living in a fantasy world.  Everybody knows that Windows slowly 
> accumulates bugs.  They've known almost from day one, when people 
> started griping about what a POS it was.

Every OS accumulates bugs.  That's reality, son.

/BHA