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Article #3946Re: Now I Understand
From: Bluuuue Rajah
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:33
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:33
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Leonard Grey <l.grey@invalid.invalid> wrote in news:ea3kBovYJHA.4480@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl: > You're an idiot. You're an a-hole. > Leonard Grey > Errare humanum est > > Bluuuue Rajah wrote: >> 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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