Re: Now I Understand

orgthingy <orgthingy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:gik0md$mhe$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

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?
See, thats one of reasons I say "windows may have more programs and
official drivers.. but OS in terms of design completly sucks!"

ps. Why did you set reply to Microsoft's newsgroup? :-P

That's where the horny girls are.
.

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