On Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at 8:24:02 AM UTC-10, Bruce wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 11:12:05 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 <dsiyahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> >On Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at 5:40:01 AM UTC-10, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >> On Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at 9:28:48 AM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> >> > On 6/28/2017 6:48 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >> >
> >> > >>> At home we use Winblows.
> >> > >>
> >> > >> You're all complaining about it and putting it down but... you're
> >> > >> using it!
> >> > >>
> >> > >> Weaklings!
> >> > >
> >> > > You caught me. I can't stand up for myself. (Heh.)
> >> > >
> >> > > My husband uses CAD software that isn't available anywhere
> >> > > but Windows. At home, I surf the web and play solitaire, so I barely
> >> > > care what OS we use. Doesn't mean I don't recognize Windows as a POS.
> >> > >
> >> > > At work, I have to use what the company wants me to use, which is
> >> > > a mix of Windows and a handful of Unixes (Unices?)
> >> > >
> >> > > Cindy Hamilton
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> > Most of us use Windows for the same reason. It does everything I need
> >> > and was already on the computer when I bought it. Are other OS better?
> >> > Don't know, I never used them and never had an incentive to try others. .
> >> >
> >> > Why do you think it is a POS? Compared to other systems?
> >>
> >> It's fine for civilians. It's really painful for a programmer
> >> who is used to the power and simplicity of Unix. It's a resource
> >> hog on the hardware; relatively speaking it takes an eternity to
> >> run anything.
> >>
> >> I'm not alone:
> >>
> >> <https://www.marksanborn.net/software/10-reasons-why-i-hate-microsoft-windows/>
> >> <http://www.zdnet.com/article/so-why-do-people-hate-windows/>
> >> <http://www.pcworld.com/article/134819/article.html>
> >>
> >> It's telling that PCworld magazine hates Microsoft.
> >>
> >> Cindy Hamilton
> >
> >Everybody should hate Windows and Microsoft. What's not to hate? My guess is that you wouldn't care much for Unix if you were forced to use it with a endlessly buggy graphical interface that needed constant fixin'.
>
> For a user, the OS doesn't really matter. If you're computer literate,
> as I believe you are, you can make Windows work for you without a
> problem. Or Unix or Linux or Apple's OS or mobile stuff etc.

I know how to handle Windows and hardware problems. These days I'm a casual Windows user so I don't have much of anything to do with the OS. I am a believer that you have to reload Windows every 30 months or so to keep it running snappy.