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"Bluuuue Rajah" <Bluuuuue@Rajah.> wrote in message
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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?


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.