[Mongoose]

He is of course also wrong about fighting virii if you have a half a brain, but hey...

For the record, the Latin plural of "virus" would be "viri." One i.

[castor]

Four years passed since that thread
Would have guessed two and a half, or something..

[Nuke]

fighting viruses n windows is as easy as installing a virus scanner immediately after installing the os and keep its defs up to date, and then not do anything really stupid (like using wares without virus scaning it first, or using internet explorer). the reason windows has problems with viruses is mainly because of oem software. i find that most computers on the market come with a 6 month subscription to norton or some other virus scanner. and when that subscription expires windows users are completely defenseless, and are none the wiser. its amazing how many times i heard "i got norton im defended" then i look and see its subscription to updates expired a year ago. now that ms has come out with its own av software, free to windows users, i expect this reputation to end.

i like the idea of linux, and am capable of using it to some degree. i love linux's gcc compiler, it gives you error messages that make sense. however i find linux is a massive waste of time. i dont want to spend hours ney days setting up the os and reading the long winded poorly written instructions for installing software and drivers. the amount of things that come with linux that has a version number < 1 is disturbing. also i can never seem to get the same performance out of linux that i can with windows.

windows sucks, it does way more than an os should do and because of this its slow. the idea that an os should be a software suite is a bad idea. it should be a platform to run software. another fail point is that they have the internet in bed with the os. nobody on the internet should have a line to your operating system, that is in the relm of a server os.

long story short, operating systems suck.

[Ghostavo]

i like the idea of linux, and am capable of using it to some degree. i love linux's gcc compiler, it gives you error messages that make sense.

As opposed to... compilers messages that don't make sense? Where and what compiler?

however i find linux is a massive waste of time. i dont want to spend hours ney days setting up the os and reading the long winded poorly written instructions for installing software and drivers. the amount of things that come with linux that has a version number < 1 is disturbing. also i can never seem to get the same performance out of linux that i can with windows.

If you don't have the patience to learn about inner working of the OS, any distribution that require you to do this are obviously out of your reach. You get what you search for. There are distributions for the common user too, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc... Perhaps you should begin by reviewing these instead of diving into distros such as DSL and Gentoo and whatnot.

windows sucks, it does way more than an os should do and because of this its slow. the idea that an os should be a software suite is a bad idea. it should be a platform to run software. another fail point is that they have the internet in bed with the os. nobody on the internet should have a line to your operating system, that is in the relm of a server os.

long story short, operating systems suck.

Windows like all OS's (apart from DIY linux distributions, but that's another matter entirely) comes packaged with what they consider to be necessary to obtain a minimally functional computer. This includes a text editor, a browser, a media player among other things. Noteworthy is the fact that most of these can be uninstalled if you dislike them. You already complained about long winded instructions, and you want to add more labor into having a fully functional computer? Finally, no OS requires internet to work, and if you are talking about Windows' activation, you can do it offline.

Long story short, try to work out your ideal OS, then try to see how bizarre or unworkable it would be in a real life situation.

[Bobboau]

As opposed to... compilers messages that don't make sense? Where and what compiler?

leave a semicolon off the end of a class or neglect to close a bracket or parentheses.

[Ghostavo]

It's a parser, not an AI.  

And gcc is also prone to it.

[Nuke]

i like the idea of linux, and am capable of using it to some degree. i love linux's gcc compiler, it gives you error messages that make sense.

As opposed to... compilers messages that don't make sense? Where and what compiler?

however i find linux is a massive waste of time. i dont want to spend hours ney days setting up the os and reading the long winded poorly written instructions for installing software and drivers. the amount of things that come with linux that has a version number < 1 is disturbing. also i can never seem to get the same performance out of linux that i can with windows.

If you don't have the patience to learn about inner working of the OS, any distribution that require you to do this are obviously out of your reach. You get what you search for. There are distributions for the common user too, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc... Perhaps you should begin by reviewing these instead of diving into distros such as DSL and Gentoo and whatnot.

windows sucks, it does way more than an os should do and because of this its slow. the idea that an os should be a software suite is a bad idea. it should be a platform to run software. another fail point is that they have the internet in bed with the os. nobody on the internet should have a line to your operating system, that is in the relm of a server os.

long story short, operating systems suck.

Windows like all OS's (apart from DIY linux distributions, but that's another matter entirely) comes packaged with what they consider to be necessary to obtain a minimally functional computer. This includes a text editor, a browser, a media player among other things. Noteworthy is the fact that most of these can be uninstalled if you dislike them. You already complained about long winded instructions, and you want to add more labor into having a fully functional computer? Finally, no OS requires internet to work, and if you are talking about Windows' activation, you can do it offline.

Long story short, try to work out your ideal OS, then try to see how bizarre or unworkable it would be in a real life situation.

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