Dave Barry Does Windows

retrosteve writes: "Well, it's finally happened. Someone (Dave Barry) in the popular press has finally, explicitly and with a sense of humour, pointed out that Microsoft Windows doesn't get any more reliable or usable, no matter how many versions you buy."

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What am I missing?

[MA17]

I've been using Win98 since 1998, and it's just as stable as any OS I've come across. It doesn't crash every four hours or anything like that, in fact, I keep my Win98 machine running for weeks on end...with negligable memory leakage.

Windows runs all the software I care to run, and the games I wish to play, so frankly, as a consumer level computer user (with a self-built system (so as to dispel any notion that I'm totally ignorant)) who has given Linux a try, Windows is just fine by me because it does what I want to do.

I can't help but wonder how many people choose other OSes just because they're not Windows...

Re:Sorry, but what's the point?

[billybob]

lighten up, cock boy.

its called comedy. i use XP all the damn time at work. yah, its stable as shit. so was 2000. doesnt mean i cant laugh at this article. he's not just making fun of microsoft. he's making fun of the fact that he doesnt know jack about computers.

Pretty Accurate

[eAndroid]

I keep buying Windows versions, hoping I'll get lucky.

Ya, sounds like most Windows users I know.

Dave Barry, Writer, Dead At 54

[aka-ed]

Or at whatever age he became incapable of original creative thought.

Or, possibly, he's just too busy with the big movie project, so he's phoning in his columns.

Re:Sorry, but what's the point?

[Enahs]

In the ease of use department, the Mac wins, hands down. Ease of use does not mean "Works like Windows" it means that the program is easy to use and to figure out.

Ooh! Someone suggested that someone could be easy-to-use and yet not-entirely-like Windows! Jihad! JIHAD!!!!!!

Have you used MacOS X? It's great. It's easy to use and if you know what you're doing, you can do great things with it. It's stable (Not "Real UNIX" stable, but it's never crashed on me). It's got a BSDish kernel that you don't need to recompile, as well as an excellent GUI called Aqua.

I managed to get the kernel to panic while trying to connect to an AppleShare printer. Like you said, it's not "Real UNIX" stable.

Maybe if they didn't throw every #@%! thing they can think of into the kernel, this sort of thing wouldn't happen.

Its only problem is that it is a little slow on my little G3. G4s work so much better for it.

It is pretty sweet on a G4. I rather wish they'd gone for merely improving the desktop in a light-yet-pretty way, but I guess Apple just had to put together a look-and-feel that shows off their new display tech. Looks nice, but it's a little bloated for my taste.

Oh, MacOS X's core is open source.

Hard to beat, iddintit? Maybe we could convince MS to release some code under a non-viral license. Funny, isn't it, that MS, of all companies, the same company that harps on the GPL for being "viral" would release the most viral open-source license I've ever seen.

A little odd for a company that also benefits from BSD code.

Re:Of course!

[nuintari]

I wouldn't say OS X rocks, there are simply way too many root exploits that anyone could accidently happen upon. I won't respect OS X until I no longer have root access to all those machiens I'm not supposed to have root on....

If it does rock, its like one of those bad 80's hair bands that rocked badly, like Poisen.