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I have not used windows in a while, but the 2 things I found annoying with Microsoft and the reasons why I switched around 8 years back were: 1) Most of the wi

by rajeshp1986 10y ago

I have not used windows in a while, but the 2 things I found annoying with Microsoft and the reasons why I switched around 8 years back were: 1) Most of the windows laptops doesn't age very well. By the 3rd year the computer starts feeling like its become quite old. I needed hardware upgrades every year to keep my computer running. One of my friends suggested me to try Apple. I am running a Mac pro which is almost 5 years old but still runs everything and I am confident that I can use it for 2 more years. I can't say that for Windows laptops, partly the reason is the hardware is manufactured by Dell/Lenovo or some other vendor. I hope Microsoft surface books provide some longetivity. 2) My internet experience with Microsoft pushed me to move out of Linux. There are so many viruses/malwares out there trying to corrupt your system. You cannot live without an anti-virus and even then chances are that you will end up corrupting your system and has to do re-install windows or format your hard disk. I am done with that shit now..I don't remember doing any OS re-install or formatting in last 7 years. As a developer I can focus on writing code and browing internet. Just before writing this comment, I had to work in a client's remote windows machine and it was still a terrible experience. Windows still doesn't have a decent way to tail the logs!!! One more thing If I am running a server, Can someone tell microsoft : 1) why I need a GUI running on it? 2) The user home folder has "Music" & "Movies" folders. What is the purpose of those folders in Windows Server OS? I agree that Microsoft is becoming more open as a company and embracing new technologies. But I really think they should drop Windows completely and build a new OS from scratch(Just like they dropped IE & started edge browser) rather than doing patch works and improving it. It has some serious underlying architecture issues.

ownagefool 10y ago
Not much of a Windows fan but https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd184075.aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd184075.aspx
Amezarak 10y ago
> I needed hardware upgrades every year to keep my computer running. I'm finding this hard to understand. Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10 all seem to be about the same, spec-wise, and it doesn't sound like you were upgrading anyway. I don't understand in what sense you would need to upgrade your hardware, which, in any case, is the same hardware used in Macs - Intel processors and so forth. > You cannot live without an anti-virus and even then chances are that you will end up corrupting your system and has to do re-install windows or format your hard disk. For many, many years now, Microsoft has provided Microsoft Security Essentials, AKA Windows Defender, which is all that most people need. I have a laptop from 2006 and a desktop from 2009, both of which are my (a developer) primary/sole work and recreation machines. I have never had to reinstall Windows or format my hard disk.[1] In my experience these were things you had to do in the Windows 95/98/2000 era, but not since, barring some catastrophe like a trashed filesystem caused by a failing harddrive. [1] Though in the interests of full disclosure, I did elect to replace the laptop harddrive with a solid state drive, and at that time I did install a new version of Windows rather than bother with transferring data from the old drive. As to why I did this, well, in 2016, an Intel Core 2 Duo is pretty slow but the easiest thing to upgrade is the harddrive.
Arnavion 10y ago
>Windows still doesn't have a decent way to tail the logs!!! cat -Wait foo.log
Shorel 10y ago
You could just reinstall Windows every year instead of buying new hardware.

ownagefool 10y ago

Not much of a Windows fan but https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd184075.aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd184075.aspx

Amezarak 10y ago

> I needed hardware upgrades every year to keep my computer running. I'm finding this hard to understand. Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10 all seem to be about the same, spec-wise, and it doesn't sound like you were upgrading anyway. I don't understand in what sense you would need to upgrade your hardware, which, in any case, is the same hardware used in Macs - Intel processors and so forth. > You cannot live without an anti-virus and even then chances are that you will end up corrupting your system and has to do re-install windows or format your hard disk. For many, many years now, Microsoft has provided Microsoft Security Essentials, AKA Windows Defender, which is all that most people need. I have a laptop from 2006 and a desktop from 2009, both of which are my (a developer) primary/sole work and recreation machines. I have never had to reinstall Windows or format my hard disk.[1] In my experience these were things you had to do in the Windows 95/98/2000 era, but not since, barring some catastrophe like a trashed filesystem caused by a failing harddrive. [1] Though in the interests of full disclosure, I did elect to replace the laptop harddrive with a solid state drive, and at that time I did install a new version of Windows rather than bother with transferring data from the old drive. As to why I did this, well, in 2016, an Intel Core 2 Duo is pretty slow but the easiest thing to upgrade is the harddrive.

Arnavion 10y ago

>Windows still doesn't have a decent way to tail the logs!!! cat -Wait foo.log

Shorel 10y ago

You could just reinstall Windows every year instead of buying new hardware.