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jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv@aol> wrote in news:gilh5b2f50@news1.newsguy.com:

> 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.

Do you run Linux?