Now I Understand

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From: Bluuuue Rajah
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:13

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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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