A Leauki's Writings
What are your complaints?
Published on October 1, 2009 By Leauki In Personal Computing

I use Windows at work and Mac OS X at home. I have been a Mac user since 1998 if I include my time with BeOS on a Mac clone.

I have used Linux, NetBSD, and Solaris at home, school, and work over the years. I have used OS/2 during the Warp 3 and Warp 4 years.

Yet with all the experience, especially with Windows, I keep finding my way back to the Mac and cannot imagine computing life without Mac OS X.

Ironically, and despite common assumptions to the contrary, I ultimately find that Windows is easier for programmers and UNIX is easier to use.

Anyway, I have my pet peeves and complaints with and about all operating systems and platforms.

What are yours?

Give a list of ten complaints for each operating system you have used at home or at work (for longer than a few months). Windows 95/98/Millenium count as one, as do Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7 and their server versions. Linux counts as one OS, distribution-specific annoyances do not count unless all major distributions have them. It must be ten complaints for each system, not more, not less.

I'll reply once I see a few comments. I try to come up with ten complaints about Mac OS X, Windows XP/Vista, Linux (in general), and Solaris. (I can add OS/2 if readers request it.)

 

 


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on Oct 14, 2009

Is it perfect?

Of course not...



Is it the best thing available today?

Yes! By far as well...



Haven't had single security issue, virus issue, loss of data issue, crash issue or anything similar... Thing simply works and does any job you through upon it.

Sounds like Windows 7 ....

on Oct 15, 2009

Jafo I had no issues with Windows ME either. Sounds like you are the exception and the one the did have problems.

on Oct 15, 2009

kona0197
Jafo I had no issues with Windows ME either. Sounds like you are the exception and the one the did have problems.

Sounds more like you're the exception.
ME is and always will be a shitty OS.

on Oct 15, 2009

Jafo I had no issues with Windows ME either. Sounds like you are the exception and the one the did have problems.

The One?  One of the !,000,000 who had the misfortune to buy it, more like it.  Never had ME myself, but everyone I know who did have it reckoned it was the worst OS in history.... and were pissed there was no refund when it failed miserably/HAD to be uninstalled.

People will say the same about Vista, though many pre-judged it, based on hearsay from 'so-called' experts, and never changed their minds.  I've been running Vista Home Premium x64 for about a year now and it is the most stable/least problematic OS I've ever used... until Win7, that is.

Speaking of Win 7, I picked up 2 copies of Home Premium x64 for $129.00 AUD a piece from my local PC store today... one each for me n' the missus.  Can't activate them 'til next Thursday, though... but that doesn't matter... we've got 'em.

on Oct 15, 2009

Hmmm, ME always worked ok for me too...

Vista is more irritating than faulty. That effin' awful start menu, the fact it says I haven't got permission to access folders on my own PC, that stupid auto mouseover graphic that follows your mouse over documents... grrrrr! Stinking pile of dren...

on Oct 15, 2009

I wouldn't go into a giant list cause its not really necessary... I like Win 7 a lot, but as with all MS products it cant be fully secured. Security is the achillies heel of Windows and it always will be, period. I use Linux quite a bit and I use it for most of my intensive web surfing. In Windows, I will only go to trusted sites where I have never been attacked in the past. As for Mac, I never really saw the need to have it... I've dabbled in it and it looks nice, but I'm not going to buy a new rig just to accomodate some expensive proprietary operating system. Theres too much proprietary crap with all Apple products... I generally look for alternatives to everything they sell. So while Mac is superior in most ways to Windows, its overpriced and not all that practical when considering other options. A dual boot Win7/Fedora seems to work good for me... when I want to game and use things unavailable to me in Linux I will use 7 and when I want to surf the web invulnerable to attack I will use Fedora.

on Oct 15, 2009

Anthony R
So while Mac is superior in most ways to Windows, its overpriced and not all that practical when considering other options..

How is a mac overpriced? It's not more expensive than any designer PC. If you compare the hardware on a recent mac with equivalent hardware on a recent pc, the price really is the same.

You can't just look at the specs though. You need to look at the big picture (Design, battery life (for notebooks), weight, size, Software, Stability, Support).

You CAN get a cheaper PC than a mac, that's a given. But show me a single PC that will give the full package you get with any current mac at a significantly lower price... You'll *always* make some kind of trade-off until you get around the same pricetag.

on Oct 15, 2009

Snowman

Quoting kona0197, reply 32Jafo I had no issues with Windows ME either. Sounds like you are the exception and the one the did have problems.


Sounds more like you're the exception.
ME is and always will be a shitty OS.

indeed.

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