popular, most certainly.
useful, for probably ~95% of what needs doing. IME, the nix analogues are better that the winblows ones. (office, i'm looking at you)
i find windows a fucking headache, simple things like mounting isos, or file systems for that fucking matter, are unavailable/ buried (respectively) in winblows.
hdparms even possible? file permissions? - fucking horrendous. nic configuiration? ten different fucken commands to do what nix does with one.
installing software for crissakes, unpacking an exe from the command line so it doesn't install ten kinds of spamware shit i didn't want in the first place?
and whats with having all the fucking slashes backwards?
moving the "show desktop" icon from the bottom right hand corner where my mouse fucken never goes? good fucking luck... enabling a true admin account? elevating privileges from the cli? fucksakes.
cli man > windows help centre.
only in what, 7? (after 10 years) they deigned to give users the ability to remove the recyclebin from the desktop namespace without hacking the fucking registry (which is still afaik the only way how to get windows to fucking DO anything)
...and the registry, ho my that horrendous piece of fucking shit. can it clean itself yet?
i want shit that works, where and when i want it working.
(sadface, i'm due for a kernel/distro upgrade cos my cad doesn't have isometric grid )
winblows is consistently > 5 years behind in implementing useful shit.
asides from gayming, what do you believe it falls short on? more, have you tried any of the latest flavours. they're slick (lighter on resources and quicker to the desktop in most cases )
i hear they're giving it away (if you bought their other abortions >xp ) but *for a limited time only* (1 year)
interesting, from M$.
that said. well. fuck. had a mate running 10 alpha on mac hardware (Microstosh >< ). i berated him soundly.
do they just recycle all their fucking code all the time? it's like they've skinned half of the os and called it new. the CP in 10 is the same as 7. tiles? same, task bar/tray? same. file explorer, same. (FUCK that "favourites" bar, give me a tree. and fucking just try and remove it)
what do any of the mscs look like? windows nt with an XP skin, huh? FOR FUCKS SAKE. fifteen plus year old code...
and fuck desktop widgets. all day long.
but oh fucking joy, they finally got rid of IE
i suppose if morons are willing to pay for their shit they'll keep making it.
and "apps"? on a desktop what the fuck. i suppose it's the way the world is going, but it's pretty shitty.
M$, you may continue to eat dicks.
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