On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 17:33:04 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 >
wrote:

>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:

>> >> > 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.

Yes. I always plan to make an image to return to every now and then,
but I never do. A PC is too much a work in progress. An image would
never be up to date.