As the topic says...whats wrong with windows? GBK all you other "linux penguins" plz tell me.And to make this relevent whats your favorite operation system?

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janitor bobs idea of rogers video: He's actually the overweight guy next door who has a HUGE selection of videos, including the entire Lethal Weapon, Halloween, and 'Ernest' series.
The advantage is is that you can 'borrow' movies for long amounts of time without him remembering that you borrowed them.

The disadvantage is the pizza cheese grime on the DVDs

[This message has been edited by imsoshort (edited April 12, 2004).]

Mac OS X 10.3.3

I wouldnt touch Windows ever again with a 12 foot barge pole.

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Did you read the whole thing?Im asking WHY you hate WINDOWS!

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janitor bobs idea of rogers video: He's actually the overweight guy next door who has a HUGE selection of videos, including the entire Lethal Weapon, Halloween, and 'Ernest' series.
The advantage is is that you can 'borrow' movies for long amounts of time without him remembering that you borrowed them.

The disadvantage is the pizza cheese grime on the DVDs

You're just asking for a riot.

Windows 9x was a joke and a travasty. It was made even worse with Windows ME. Meanwhile the average consumer did not know about Windows NT 3.51 and Windows NT 4.X. These were geared for the business world. These were much more stable than 9X. From about 1995 to 2001, Microsoft didn't seemed to care about you and gave us the 9X/ME crap. Then Windows XP came along. It used the Windows 2000 kernel and NTFS which improved stability. I'm getting no where near the amount of crashes/problems as I did with 9X. May say that WinXP is still the devil, it's way to filled with crap and "eye candy." Well, that is true. WinXP does have bloated stuff, but you can turn it off. With something called knowledge, one can change WinXP however they want. Yes, I do not like the whole activation scheme. I think it's the wrong approach. However, I do not have an alternative solution at this time.

Is this good enough?

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Yes thats good except for the fact that i need to know what is so wrong with the 9x-xp series,

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janitor bobs idea of rogers video: He's actually the overweight guy next door who has a HUGE selection of videos, including the entire Lethal Weapon, Halloween, and 'Ernest' series.
The advantage is is that you can 'borrow' movies for long amounts of time without him remembering that you borrowed them.

The disadvantage is the pizza cheese grime on the DVDs

It's unstable, mainly.
A prime example, we have 2 XP boxes and a 98 my dad uses. The 98 was on yesterday, but no one was using it. All the sudden, it crashed, and got a BSOD. No one had touched it.

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MadQuack on Military school: Pro's: I get to shoot a gun. Con's: Everything else.
"I'm going to beat you until the laws of physics are violated!!" ! Maeve's Warcry

RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

Stability.

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Eat the pudding.

You probably couldn't even afford a Windows machine again after you sold your arm, leg, soul and body for a Mac.

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You're entering a world of pain.
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Thats Weird...our 98 never crashs...neither did our 95...well once but that was a virus.
WINDOWS LOVE'S ME!

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janitor bobs idea of rogers video: He's actually the overweight guy next door who has a HUGE selection of videos, including the entire Lethal Weapon, Halloween, and 'Ernest' series.
The advantage is is that you can 'borrow' movies for long amounts of time without him remembering that you borrowed them.

The disadvantage is the pizza cheese grime on the DVDs

I've never had any major problems with Windows either. It's been very reliable for me.

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You're entering a world of pain.
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Any OS sucks if you don't know how to use it...

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I happen to like Windows 2000 but when I had Win 9x-ME I was seriously considering moving to Mac or Linux . They're going back downhill with the resource wasting windows xp though . Win2k is stable, fairly efficent, and most programs work with it. Unfortunatly the one thing Windows will never have is a sexy logo .


*bows to sexy penguin*

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Bunnies jump farther when you kick em!

[This message has been edited by SwedishBorgie (edited April 12, 2004).]

True.. but should it suck if you're not using it?

The thing is, people do rag on windows too much. They have to support so much hardware, so many different configurations, and since it isn't open source, they have a limited number of people working on making it compatable with all these different peices of hardware, and different configurations.

That being said, often it's a PEBKAC. (Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair)

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MadQuack on Military school: Pro's: I get to shoot a gun. Con's: Everything else.
"I'm going to beat you until the laws of physics are violated!!" ! Maeve's Warcry

RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

True enough... look at the problem database for windows half the problems are either user error or some dumb programmer did something he wasn't supposed to do, if you use completly microsoft software, with microsoft supported hardware then you will very seldom have problems, unless you have Win ME

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Bunnies jump farther when you kick em!

I actually am pretty happy with Windows. The only problems I've ever had was with our old "family" computer. It was running '98, and at first it was fine, but after we'd had it for about 4 years it just became so unreliable that you couldn't use any applications effectively. Then I got my own computer, running XP Pro, and I haven't had any problems at all. And anikan, how can you stand Macs? I grew up using the damn things and I still stand them.

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"I sound like angry chickens, or maybe a space robot."
-Les Claypool of Primus

Happydud, its not that 98 is bad on your computer, its just that it has so many spyware programs running at one time that windows just cant take any more. It needs more power to the flux capacitaters to run that much spyware at one time.

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"Just remember -- No matter how bad things get, Northern Minnesota will always be there"
-- Garrison Keeler

One thing that bugs me is a machine that my brother got some time ago with Windows XP pre-installed. IT HAD SPYWARE PRE-INSTALLED!!!

Anyway, I currently use Windows ME, and may stay with it. It may be instable (it locks up at least daily), but I've gotten used to it. Eventually, I'll learn to "hack" it, and I'll have an über-system, that will have the flexibility and stability of Linux, and the compatability of Windows!

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Nes digs around in the trash can.
Nes finds a hamburger!
Nes puts the hamburger in his backpack.

This...



Vrs this...



Hmmm its a difficult decision but after careful consideration... Windows 2000 Pro with SP 4 is my favorite OS currently.

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I'm not racist. I hate everyone equally.

You know to be politically correct we really should kill the women and the minorities first...

I have winxp corporate, which is basically an activation-free version of windows XP pro.



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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

There is something inherently wrong with that..



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what?

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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

[This message has been edited by Pagewizard_YKS (edited April 12, 2004).]

Come on now bud show alittle back bone you know she's hot.

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I'm not racist. I hate everyone equally.

You know to be politically correct we really should kill the women and the minorities first...

Actually, I think a modified Three Stooges Syndrome occured. There was so much, it just exploded, and all of it went away. I'm serious. It's all gone. Every last piece. My dad and I are baffled.

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[19:59] Happy "Liar liar" dud: This is arguably one of the lowest points in my life.
[20:00] Happy "Liar liar" dud: I'm sitting here infront of my two computers wearing shorts and with no shirt, eating potato salad and orange juice, debating the existance of pants.

"Linux never looked this good."

And it never will, GBK.

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"To believe in God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter."
"Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me."
"And any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up."

I have not had a blue screen of death in years. even my mum only gets them when her computer runs out of it's small amout of memory, and that is when listening to mp3's on her hard drive. If you don't screw around with the things in windows and properly set things up(and dont over-clock) you should not get a BSOD.

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your curiosity will get the better of YOU one day.
Jon`C:Irony is spelling 'quality' poorly.
Spork:Well I think 'Irony is spelling grammar poorly'
Snail racing: (500 posts per line)-@%

zing. I promised myself to never touch a mac out of my own free will after being in primary school for 6 years and the only available computers being the old pathetic macs with a cursor that moves slower than the actual mouse.

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your curiosity will get the better of YOU one day.
Jon`C:Irony is spelling 'quality' poorly.
Spork:Well I think 'Irony is spelling grammar poorly'
Snail racing: (500 posts per line)-@%

also, they cant test out every combination of hardware and they are not going to overclock to give tech support for overclockers. so as i said, don't screw with your computer and you should be fine.

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your curiosity will get the better of YOU one day.
Jon`C:Irony is spelling 'quality' poorly.
Spork:Well I think 'Irony is spelling grammar poorly'
Snail racing: (500 posts per line)-@%

if you upgraded its memory it wouldn't crash in those memory hogging games.

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your curiosity will get the better of YOU one day.
Jon`C:Irony is spelling 'quality' poorly.
Spork:Well I think 'Irony is spelling grammar poorly'
Snail racing: (500 posts per line)-@%

or you could just use spybot, search and destroy. if THAT wont pick it up, there is no problem.


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your curiosity will get the better of YOU one day.
Jon`C:Irony is spelling 'quality' poorly.
Spork:Well I think 'Irony is spelling grammar poorly'
Snail racing: (500 posts per line)-@%

Aside from monopolizing and jacking up the price? Not much, at least with XP. Other versions of Windows seem to inhale great wind of a donkey.

And yet I still use Win98. :-/

Those of you who blame an OS for crashing remember this: 98% of all computer failures are caused by the user.

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[This message has been edited by DogSRoOL (edited April 12, 2004).]

98! Quick someone hack his *** !

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I'm not racist. I hate everyone equally.

You know to be politically correct we really should kill the women and the minorities first...

98 wasn't that bad, XP's working great, I haven't tried anything else that I can compare it too.

Spyware can be a problem.
I have this friend who's computer is so full of spyware, you can't even statrt up IE without a load of pop-ups coming at once and then crashing it. I'm trying to convince him to get AdAware or something.

She's also not wearing a bra.

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Steal my dreams and sell them back to me.....

Hey its all natural baby

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I'm not racist. I hate everyone equally.

You know to be politically correct we really should kill the women and the minorities first...

And 84% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

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Bassoon, n. A brazen instrument into which a fool blows out his brains.

you mean this one?



Couldn't resist....



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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

Im not touching this.

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I used to believe that we must fight the future, lest change come without our consent. I was wrong. The truth is that we must embrace the future, for only with change can we remain the same.

Windows is like Halo online, Linux is like UT2k4 online. Halo is unstable, and it lags and stuff, UT2k4 is all stable and sexy and it works.

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I’m not going to die, I’m going to see if I was ever alive. - Spike
It's not your right to decide whether they live or die. They deserve a chance! - Vash
Originally posted by Elana14: i would love a dong like that!

On the other hand Win 2000 is stable and compatible with most hardware and software and can look any way you want with programs like litestep...

Weeeeeeeeeeee litestep is fun.

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I’m not going to die, I’m going to see if I was ever alive. - Spike
It's not your right to decide whether they live or die. They deserve a chance! - Vash
Originally posted by Elana14: i would love a dong like that!