Does Windows cause problems?

ChickenSoup said:
MUAHAHAHA MY PACKAGE DID COME, AND IT WASN'T A MAC, IT WAS MORROWIND
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This is what happens to people after extended windows exposure.

My macbook hasn't been rebooted in 50 or so days... The only crash I had was from some 3rd party software didn't upgrade properly and I had to reinstall it. The overall mac design makes more sense and is much better organized the the chaos of folders and unused standards plaguing windows systems. That and it's a heck of a lot more stable and doesn't annoy you with irritating pop ups whenever you log in about junk you don't even care about. Most programs install with just a drag and drop into the applications folder (or wherever you want), and for those that don't apple includes a wonderful installation utility developers take advantage of.

I look back at the days of running windows and just shudder, its like trying to get grandpa out of his chair to help you do tasks; he may do it but he is slow and dilapidated.
 
This is what happens to people after extended windows exposure.
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What, because I like the Elder Scrolls series I'm a puppet for Bill Gates?
My macbook hasn't been rebooted in 50 or so days... The only crash I had was from some 3rd party software didn't upgrade properly and I had to reinstall it.
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Wow, that must suck for you. I haven't rebooted in months. Have fun with that.
 
Which will make your PC so much more secure! ...not to mention open up plenty of new holes, I'm afraid...

*hardly ever installs patches*
 
tjguitarz said:
Then you're missing some very critical patches and security fixes!
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I thought he meant like crash reboot. Like, the whole thing locks up and you wish you could have that ub3r axe from Morrowind to chawp chawp. But still, it's not that often that I have to reboot. Mac fanboys make it look like it's pulling teeth just to function in Windows, and I've never really had many problems.

I would continue arguing/debating this point, but the fact is that I don't really care. Linux is free and can run on any computer I think, but hardly runs anything without some emulating thing or whatever (I mean games...) and the learning curve is rather steep. Mac is the best around but cost an arm and a leg and ONLY works on the Mac computers... and my family CAN'T AFFORD THEM... Windows doesn't cost so much and can work with any computer and you know what? No matter how much fans of Mac and Linux make it out to be ("I shudder when I think of my Windows days!!") it really never was that bad for me. Call me lucky, but like I said before, I don't really care. Now, Vista is a piece of crud, but they'll patch it and XP is just peachy.

So, whenever says "ZOMGOODNESS MAC IS SO MUCH BETTER" I think, "I pity you for caring. It's a computer. I have more to life than worrying about all that and I don't feel like spending the money. Enjoy GarageBand."
 
I've had MACs do all sorts of weird things.....they aren't all stable like people say. I can get them to lockup, slowdown, what have you...just as easily as windows. Something people forget is that the main reason a computer 'crashes' has pretty much everything to do with third party stuff....like drivers, games, productivity apps, junk apps, web apps even hardware that's not designed correctly........


now, what are most third party things written for? You think they spend the time trying everything out? Yeah...they do....but you try writing code that can deal with a near infinite number a variables and see how far you get. Mac has a tight grip on their OS and the hardware it runs on. So third party apps have to go through more rigorous trial......that's part of why there are so few....it costs too much. and don't get me started on linux....It works great after you customize it to meet your needs.......but beware of weird apps....or how about that piece of hardware you can't fine Linux drivers for? you could write one yourself.....but then....only a handful of people can do that. So how is that better?

Point is all three are good, and bad. It really depends on what you want to do. Why will windows be a round for a log time? Because people don't like change.....cause it's so deeply rooted in the business world it'll be a near impossibility to uproot it. We saw that in the early stages of the PC. Apple got there first....problem was IBM was used in most businessess.....SO when people saved up to buy a PC what do you think they chose? The fruity one, or the one made by the company that made the one they used at work? Same with windows. People are comfortable with it, and it comes on everything....unless you buy a Mac. But those are more expensive......better maybe however, people play the numbers game when it comes to computers....."this many RAM for this price." And until Linux comes standard on a PC form HP or Dell, AND it's easy for someone to use...ie:(does everything for you....no playing with settings and what not)...then maybe it has a shot. Unfortunately, it's not really a big player....except in the spacial mission field. Seriously....before you go on about linux this or that.....How many linux kernals are there per distribution? What if there was only one or two standard linux kernals......and they couldn't be changed or re-writen?


ok....i'm done ranting for now.
 
I like to play computer games. I run Windows XP Pro SP2. Games work in Windows.

If I didn't like to play computer games, I would run Mandriva, Ubuntu, or PCLinuxOS.

I'm aware that some Windows-based games run using Wine or Cedega in Linux. I don't want to spend the time to learn a new OS and third-party fee-based software when I already have so little free time to spend on the computer.

And, in the immortal words of Forrest Gump: That's all I have to say about that.
 
Wine runs great (and is free), I play counter strike source every once in awhile. Installation was pretty much download the installer and double click it ;)
 
I can't stand how large the default rendering in windows is... The interface looks like it was designed for grandma and just makes my eyes hurt... I really hate when I have to boot up visual studio to compile something...it literally looks like they threw up icons all over... It just hurts my head, windows gives me a headache, please spare me.

pretty eclipse
ewww

I expecially hate when people run their computers at 1024 or whatever...its like they are asking for eye problems...
 
I like to run mine at 1900x1200, but my dad always yells at me because everything is so small. But WOW, does it look pretty!
 
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