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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.