Windows woes

[Georg Wrede]

Fredrik Olsson wrote:
> But as I understand it Windows Vista should come with better support
> for command line users, hopefully a shortcut to the home directories
> is in there (But probably not ~\ just for spite).

Ever since Windows 2.0, each new version of Windows has been hyped up 
like the best marketed blockbuster movies. Months or years of it. "It's 
simply a must-have!" "It'll be an answer for all you ever wanted, and in 
addition it'll tell you the meaning of life!"

And not long after the release they start talking of the next version 
that'll do the stuff already promised for this one.

It's like the guy that lends money from you, and always when it's 
payback time he'll have this amazing story on where the money went, and 
you end up lending more to him.

I've already learnt that the meaning of life is, reboot, reboot, 
reinstall, reboot, reboot, lose stuff, reboot. For M$ users, that is.

If we always had only had Macs and Linuxes (and now to an increasing 
degree Intel-Solaris), and Microsoft came out with (say XP), I don't 
think anyone would use it after the couple of first reinstalls.

The other systems you can run continuously powered on for as long as it 
takes to need to totally reinstall one's Windows. Some difference.