Windows woes

[Fredrik Olsson]

Tom skrev:
> I used to work as a computer technician and have PLENTY hundreds of hours (or
> thousands of them maybe) making backups, restoring program settings, saving mail
> data from Outlook Shit-Express and others, cleaning
> viruses/trojans/spyware/adware, configuring network and reinstalling/tuning
> Windows 95/98/2000/XP (of weak users that broke their systems in a week/month
> basis). It's the worst crap you can ever do and I hate the job, though I made
> pretty much cash with it. I agree, the registry is the worst design decision
> I've ever seen.
> 
> Linux is a beautiful system (and also is FreeBSD) but they both have their
> problems such as for example: they're hard to configure, they lack drivers, they
> lack applications for some professional enviroments (eg. autocad, 3dsmax, games,
> 
> many others), they are TOO complicated for regular people, without an Internet
> connection they're hard to learn, etc.
> 
> The morals of the story: computers ARE NOT for everybody yet now in the 2006,
> even with dumb-oriented systems as Windows XP. You choose with which harshness
> you want to live with when choosing an OS depending on the time you have and the
> tasks you'll be performing on the system.
> 
I beg to differ, we have Mac OS X. A unix for pretty much everyone.

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// Fredrik