[GreenKeys] Windows Vista et al

[wf2u at starband.net]

I know why the Mac OS is good: it's Linux with Mac GUI and embellishments...


73, Meir WF2U

> Hi folks:
>
> I have run some sort of microsoft OS off and on since the IBM PC days
> (DOS  2.something, as I recall).  I actually quite liked DOS in the
> early days,  having moved from my first PC, an Apple II (cloned at the
> circuit-board and  prom level, by a dozen of us renegades).  While the
> Apple II was fun, the  PC had more of a future.  Dabbled with some CP/M,
> which was nice, but it  was a dying platform.  Unix was kinda cool on
> minis in the 80s, but was too  much of a time sink.  More recently,
> Linux improved on unix, but seemed to  take too much time too.  A
> computer is supposed to give me more free time,  not less.  So few of
> them ever have.
>
> I moved to Macs in its early days (SE, Mac II...), and ignored early
> Windows, which was a joke.   That is until win 3.x came out, at which
> time  I jumped back, since I needed to support customers on the win
> platform.  I  still regret dumping Mac at that time.
>
> After a decade-and-a-half of pain and suffering on Winblows, I am happy
> to  report that I have plunged back into Macs with a new Macbook Pro.
> It's so  nice;  damn those folks at Apple know how to refine and polish
> a fine bit  of engineering.  A computer has put a smile on my face for
> the first time  in many years.
>
> I kick myself for not moving back to Macs sooner.  Sadly, I will always
> have some piece of windows shit around, since there are enough
> engineering  programs that are not available on Macs.  And even though
> you can set the  Mac up with Windows as dual-boot, I just can't feel
> good about
> contaminating it in such a vile fashion.
>
> But rather than just venting, I should contribute something to this
> conversation:  as far as windows stability goes, I did find XP to be not
>  too bad, at least for the mix of programs I ran.  W98 was pretty iffy,
> and  ME was the same shit repackaged.  W95 and below, well, nobody cares
> now  anyway.  I hope I never see Vista.
>
> There.  I feel better now.
>
> Please don't report my off-topic ramblings to the greenkeys moderator.
>
> gil
>
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