Re: Why I returned to Windows

From: BC (bconneely_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/22/04 

Date: 22 Dec 2004 07:10:21 -0800

Origami Taco wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 02:46:25 +0000, Leythos wrote:
>
> > In article <1103674826.bcbaad8d6a4c50833115cba001fc13b2@teranews>,
> > RomanTwo@nospam.com says...
> >> What a Dumb Fsck!
> >
> > About as dumb as someone adding one line and not snipping the rest!
> >
> >>
> >> "GinEric" <GinEric@Musics-dot-com.no-spam.invalid> wrote in
message
> >> news:41c12fb9$1_4@alt.athenanews.com...
> > [snip]
> >
> > --
>
> Well, so what's the verdict? Is Windows rilly rilly bad or
> neato and groovy and oh-so wonderful. Inquiring minds need to
> know.
>
> I vote for Linux, especially Fedora.
>
> Yay.
>
> Carry on......

If Microsoft stuck with just improving Windows 3.11 and
keeping it lightweight and simple, we wouldn't have this
sorry-ass mess of insecure, enormously bloated code
called "XP". I have one client, a public library, with a
bank of Win95 PC's for public access, all running cheap
3rd party security apps and software meant for cybercafes
that I installed years ago. The PC's are most 677 Mhz
PIII Gateways running on a Netware 5.0 Network. I very
seldom need to go there for any reason, the last being
because the Netware server hard drives were beginning to
wear out. And when I get on one of those public access
PC's, I am always amazed at how friggen fast they are
compared to any XP PC. Everything just snaps open when
you click on it. I don't think even a 10 Ghz P4 would
have that kind of snap running XP. Internet Explorer was
never allowed to be upgraded beyond 5.01 and Mozilla
Firefox (and its Firebird and Phoenix predecessors) is
the default web browser. Zero problems with infections,
minimal problems with hacks, even with a high school and
community college very nearby.

When Win95 first came out, nobody thought that was a
lightweight operating system compared to 3.11, but you
can run Win95 entirely from memory on these new PC's.
XP is so awful that I'm being asked more and more about
retrofitting Win98 and Win2000 on new PC's by friends
and clients who are absolutely frustrated by XP's
sluggishness, the constant need for security updates,
and how easily infected it gets while being so time-
consuming to clean.

I think a nice, lean, clean Linux bundle would do well,
especially if it can bring back any sort of snap to
computing.

-BC

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