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Cut-Rate Windows 'XP Starter Edition' in Thailand
zlel writes "Microsoft has decided on an official name - 'Windows XP Starter Edition' - for the stripped-down, cut-rate version of Windows that it first began offering in Thailand last summer."
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Microsoft has released an OS that anyone can use out of the box, is compatible with the majority of hardware and has widespread business and domestic adoption.
What's Linux got again?
"The whole reason behind the rebooting problem is the registry, and if MS gets rid of it I'll gladly stop making fun of it. Until then you and the rest of the MS-defender crowd will just have to keep stretching your credibility trying to defend it."
/etc in UNIX.
No, it's not. The registry is simply another filesystem, just like
The reason you need to reboot is that the software is replacing system DLLs that are loaded into memory. Windows is not flexible enough to reload those DLLs without rebooting.
Oh, and by the way, 95% of the time, you *don't have to* reboot, even when it says so. Most installers just tell you to reboot because it was common practice in the Windows 95 era.
Moreover, some installers are just lazy. They install system services but don't start them, forcing you to reboot.
"The whole reason behind the rebooting problem is the registry, and if MS gets rid of it I'll gladly stop making fun of it. Until then you and the rest of the MS-defender crowd will just have to keep stretching your credibility trying to defend it."
That's funny, because my arguments for using Windows have nothing to do with the fact that "I don't have to reboot". I'm just glad to be running an OS where the whole hardware issue isn't a massive clusterfuck. I don't want to have to recompile my fucking kernel to install a 3D driver. I don't want to have to get different binary modules for each kernel revision. I don't want to have to fuck with cardmgr to get my wireless card to work. I don't want to spend five fucking hours making my USB WiFi dongle work.
Oh, and I don't want to have to get special packages for my distro. And I don't want to have to compile software from source. And I don't want to limit myself to some repository of often-outdated packages.
Today, there are only two operating systems that can do this: Windows and Mac OS.
I have a managed Linux server. For this, Linux is great. It does what it needs to do without the expense of commercial software (of course, it did take me five fucking hours to get a damn mail server running).
But Linux on my desktop? Sorry, it's just not worth it. Even on my paltry salary, the time I would spend getting my (farily standard) hardware working with any Linux distro is simply not worth it.
Why? Are you retarded or something?