On Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at 2:50:13 PM UTC-10, Bruce wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 17:33:04 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 <dsi10yahoo.com>
> 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.
There's nothing that speeds up an old computer like throwing everything away and starting with a fresh OS. I suppose that's like throwing the baby out with the bathwater but then again, it's a fairly hideous baby.
