wow i hate windows

steve941 · #1 29th August 2005, 01:28 AM

After using fedora now for a while, i can't stand windows (xp mostly) anymore.. I am fed up with it. I went home and added a 2nd hard drive to my old pc so i could have a triple boot (98se, then FC4 and XP home on other drive) well I set it up great then I had to use the xp restore function on the disc to fix win xp which changed my drive letters and made both windows os inoperable yet FC4 still worked like nothining ever happend. And now I'm fixing my brother's laptop and I had to write zeros to his drive and reinstall xp home and im on a high speed lan and its taking me 2 hours to get all the windows updates. Yeah the downloads are fast but I have to restart 4 times and always find more updates waiting, why can't it download all the updates at one time?
Thats why theres fedora.. I love it.

erroneus · #2 29th August 2005, 02:18 AM

We feel your pain, but really -- this is a testimonial, not a support question.

Omega Blue · #3 29th August 2005, 03:55 AM

Yeah. As I said, some (actually most) Linux distros now install faster than Windows XP, and much less painful too.

GarySaved · #4 10th September 2005, 06:08 PM

I am using FC4.
I saw a progam I had liked under Windows, so I re-installed XP to try it.
After going thru downloading/rebooting half a dozen times, I got to where I could actually use it.

After getting used to Linux, I found I do not like Windows. Nothing is where it should be, and I had to look all over to find ways of doing things that are right there in Linux.

Lets see: It is harder to install, slower, less convenient to use, and full of security holes, and costs money...

There is no comparison, Linux has it, hands down.

To finalize my decision, I broke, and threw out my XP install cdroms.

GarySaved

imdeemvp · #5 10th September 2005, 09:16 PM

I dont think I can say "I hate windows" I just dont trust it. BUT believe me if you guys stick around fedora for a long time you get the same feeling sometimes specially when they throw a broken kernel at as.

Omega Blue · #6 14th September 2005, 08:35 AM

Remember, "production quality" software coming from Microsoft is actually beta stuff.

Furball · #7 14th September 2005, 08:48 AM

I don't hate windows, I just don't like it

mndar · #8 14th September 2005, 09:11 AM

I agree with imdeemvp. I don't hate windows but it not being open source, I rate it lowest. The problem is you never know what it is doing behind the scenes. You might think you are just sending an email to your colleague when in fact microsoft is analysing it and using it for its advantage.I know this sounds crazy but you get my point, don't you?

va3nee · #9 28th September 2005, 02:37 AM

I like windows. I love linux. The only real flaws windows has is it is not open source, (but I guess people have to make money) it has to restart so many damn times, it dosent use the linux kernel, it is windows, and it is so damn annoying and buggy to run for coming from a yottabillion dollar company (even more buggy and annoying than EA, and thats saying something!!!)
A few of the flaws linux has is it is not windows,(compatibility wise) its not all that user friendly to the average user,(I mean home user, not linux geek like me) and it is too, well, bloated. (KDE, Gnome, LookingGlass, not just the kernel!)

Man, I had to reinstall windows. It took like a friggen day just to format the partition! it takes linux like 15 seconds!! WTF!(excuse my language)

frodopunk · #10 28th September 2005, 03:09 AM

Remember windows 98 with it's general protection faults,virtual device drivers,the blue screen of death.I remember system lockups for no apparent reason,and having to do a clean install at least once a year.Windows XP is better so I have not given up on windows completely,but linux is so powerful and stable it's hard not to like it.

Hiro Takahama · #11 3rd October 2005, 03:39 AM

FC4 all the way right here. w00t! ^_^

karl_marx · #12 4th October 2005, 12:26 AM

windows (xp) has way too many weird folders and files that you're not allowed to delete. example: "C:\Program Files\xerox\nwwia" it's empty for god's sake! i just want to kill it! why won't it die? and another thing: you can't actually delete a user account, it secretly keeps all of their documents in a stupid directory (what ever happened to "C:\My Documents"?) then it gets confused because there are two sets of documents and only one user account, so all the shortcuts go wacky and lead to the wrong one, which can't be deleted, because windows "needs" it. but i have to say it seems faster than FC4.

nyinge · #13 19th October 2005, 09:36 AM

For me... after using Linux, Windows just bores me out plain. XP just lacks versitality, whereas there are many things to play around with, such as the availability of various software.

mndar · #14 19th October 2005, 10:56 AM

Do we like Linux so much just because the entire population of home users generally use windows and we want to be different ? Is it that we are just bored with windows, with its Start button that it has been using since windows 95? Have we started disliking windows just because it was the first OS most of us used and by now have explored pretty much everything in the os, done pretty much everything there is to do with it? I am still trying to convince myself that this isn't true.

That being said, I find any Linux distro far more interesting and fun to use than windows. Probably because I like using the command line to do complex tasks. Makes me feel in control. GUI is fine, only if you have a bad memory!

I am looking forward to using the scripting shell microsoft might include in longhorn.

powereds · #15 19th October 2005, 11:29 AM

the only thing that keeps me using windoze is because of the email which uses an exchange server 5.5. if its an exchange 2000, ive been using evolution with connection as a client. also, i can't find any connector for exchange 5.5.

so guys there, if you have a connector for exchange 5.5, please tell me where can i find it or share it

thanks.