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"Bluuuue Rajah" <Bluuuuue@Rajah.> wrote in message
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> "philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in
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> >
> > "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.


If you think that you are a *total* idiot and do not know how to use a
computer.

Except when I've moved a HD into a new hardware environment
and had to perform a repair install...
I've never had to fool with one of my Windows installations.

At one time I had been using Linux for most of my work...
but for software compatibility reasons with the organization where I do my
volunteer work,
I found it easier to just stay with Windows.

I have used Linux, BSD ,Solaris, BeOS, OS/2 & ECS ...etc over the years
and they all have their own strengths and weaknesses.


To say that one OS is better than another is like saying
a chain saw is better than a hack saw. It depends what the hell you are
trying to do.