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Yea windows is pretty slumpy, but so much stuff works only on it. Photoshop/other proffesional graphic software, of course games etc.

I personally just use dual booting.
Ubuntu as main + Win XP as support system.
Just great :)

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Funny, it's the second time I quoted that - but I'd never thought I'd return it to sender... :p

Windows, like every other OS out there, has it's technical difficulties, so what? You don't see me asterisking about Ubuntu no longer recognising CDs in my DVD/CD drive, right? ;)

Live with it, repair it with that basic intelligence you're advertising or simply get rid of it.

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Maybe I should have put the word "humour" in the title.

I'm actually concerned by the number of people who have taken the rant seriously.

BTW: Thanks for quoting my comments.

:)

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You don't expect people to not believe you're serious in a forum where rants like those make up 90% of the content by now? :D

Especially not when 49% of the people posting are either so anti-Linux that it makes you seriously fear for Torvalds' life and 49% are militant Linux fanatics to an extend that makes me fear for my OWN life because of that little world "Windows" in my profile.

But it's good to see you're still part of the "there's a fix for that, stupid" crowd, you got me seriously frightened there for a moment. ;)

Rather thanks for MAKING it, it's the most ingenious comment I've read so far, since it pretty much expresses my thoughts whenever I read another one of those "I'm so stupid I wonder how I even managed to find the power on button" rants... :D

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Did you ever meet someone that knows a few CLI commands? They actually think they're hackers!

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I find Windows is good for only charging the phone.
Every time I plugged the phone in it gets recognized but neither drive gets a Drive letter, yet USB flash drives get give the next availible letter, so why give my phone a letter that allready taken.
Fixed that, but I prefer SSH server and WinSCP to connect as you can see the entire phone.

Ahh yes MSDOS I remember - Overlaying managers to cram your bloating program into 640K ram, 16 colors, Norton Commander... those were the days.

Oh and yes "Option Explicit" means "Don't compile sloppy code"

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The worst thing is that the Windows OS's user interface never appear in a logical way to the user. Since Vista and 7 it got really worse. Everything feels backwards. They try to hide things from the user, even things that once even was good and made some sence. I completely understand your frustration, its so sad that most computers use this joke of an operating system just because of luck and offensive marketing strategies. It is the proof that this is not a good world. The worst thinkable evils, religion, windows and medieval x86 based architectures are still ruling peoples minds. Can it get much worse? If I would have been religious (and not an atheist), I'd be sure that I was already suffering in hell.

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Nice rant. Actually though this sounds more like some sort of spyware infestation which could be causing all of the issues you were seeing.

Might want to give a good anti-virus / anti-spyware program a go.

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OOh while we're on errors..don't you just love this one: "Windows has encountered an unknown error"..

Or the infamous Win 98 error: "You have performed an illegal operation. The police are on their way."

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oh my, someone doesnt know how to use windows. am i supposed to feel sympathy for you now?
you are using internet explorer? you know, sometimes the biggest bug is not IN the computer, but sitting in front of it.

no problem at all here for me with using windows 7.

try ranting better next time.