Re: Now I Understand

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From: Alden Smallman-Bundlefield, Lieu...
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:28

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Leonard Grey <l.grey@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> You're an idiot.
> ---
> 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?

Agreed - shoot him at dawns house.

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