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diehrd said:I am the only one to vote Windows as the best O/S of all time
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diehrd said:I am the only one to vote Windows as the best O/S of all time
Sjaak said:Do you want to talk about it? How did it make you feel?
If you go into your C drive and right click on your Windows folder and select properties you will see the installation date under date created.DaBigJ said:Is there some way to tell when windows was originally installed? I have files from 2003 in my system32 directory, and have never reinstalled.
Quailane said:That is really surprising. Windows seems fine after even a few years if you don't let spyware get to it. We have had an athlon xp with windows xp since 2001 and it has not "rotted" or whatever at all. And that is with me and my brother treating it poorly, but keeping spyware off. Second longest is 2 years with another athlon xp. No problems or massive slowdowns at all. The older athlon xp is not overclocked at all and the newer one is all within spec except the cpu. That is with non-motherboard hardware changes with them every once in a while.
I know everyone always bashes microsoft. I don't think they would make an OS that goes bad like that. I have a friend who runs windows 95 on a 95Mhz Pentium. Yeah it feels a little slow because the hardware is a lot slower than today, but it still connects to the internet and is useful for typing if someone else is on the other computer. That is 10 years or so of working fine compared to your 4 months. The only time I ever reinstall is if I change the motherboard (and not even sometimes then) or if windows gets eaten alive by a virus or spyware (only did once). It must be something you are doing.
To me, this is a key benchmark in OS-coolness. It's unheard of, for me, to have a system stay up for a day under XP (mostly due, admittedly, to drivers and such). My #2 linux box has been up for *clicky click 'uptime'* 6 days 5 hours 2 minutes, and not so much as a moan.Chris_F said:Windows does indeed rot over time. I have to reformat and reinstall windows every 1-2 months.
Linux, on the other hand will work for however long without reformatting or even rebooting.
Also agree. The degree of power and freedom of configuration in Linux, however, resulted from its hackish heritage ("You _can_ change this if you absolutely want to, we'll give you that freedom"), while the lack of configuration in Windows is directly attributable to its corporate and quote-unquote professional development heritage.I believe Linux is all about choices (atleast Debian, BSD and Gentoo are). Whereas with Windows one has no choice. I installed a fully optimized XP using nlite. Removed quite a bit of the fat (unwanted drivers..etc). I keep getting a nag screen saying that some files were not original windows files and I had to replace them. This clearly shows that MS are more worried about people customizing their systems than with producing a quality product.
This continues today. A lot of linux ports exist; Windows doesn't support a lot of hardware, for reasons that I'll pontificate on below.Linus Torvalds' Just For Fun said:Originally, this was a project to teach me about the 386.