Switching to Windows, Not as Easy as You Think

rchapman writes "Mad Penguin writer Simon Gerber has published an amusing review of Windows XP as seen from a Linux users point of view. He really makes you feel like you are trying to use Windows for the first time after exclusively using Linux. The article covers everything from the hideous installer and its lack of partitioning/formatting capabilities to the utter wasteland that is the Windows desktop, devoid of useful applications and everything in between. A fun read."

Comments

Yawn...

[Anonymous Coward]

Windows sux.
Linux roxers.
Derrr...

Wow.

[schild]

Great. He doesn't know how to use windows. He must be retarded... ...and now you know how I feel when I hop into Linux. Like Bruce Willis in motherfucking 12 Monkies. Linux is a nightmare for people who are used to windows. A goddamn nightmare. A beast fixed permanently on your face gnawing at the important bits. There's too much going on, too many nonsensical commands, and most of all - too many little buttons that aren't important. And the start menu thing that loads up in most versions of XWindows (etc) is more unorganized than a 1st Graders backpack at the end of a school year. I'm sorry, but..well...Just No. And for any Linux User that doesn't know how to use Windows. You should be ashamed. An ape can use windows. It's made for apes. It's why Linux doesn't have the widespread appeal the /. fanbase wants it to have. Apes can't use it. It's too goddamn complicated. And the original article is just too goddamn stupid. ScuttleWhoever, you should be ashamed of yourself. This article blows.

Great

[dlhm]

Yep, All we need is one more article by and excentric *nix user, to tell us how bad and useless Windows is... come on, weve heard it before..do something original. Windows isn't as bad as you make it to be and *nix certainly it's as good as you make it to be.

I am having a headache changing to Windows

[Srikant]

I have had to change to Windows XP after using only linux, solaris and dec unix for the last 8 yrs or so due to my RSI (speech recognition software being only for windows). I did have win nt installed on my computer as an alternate os to play games for some time before that but the only MS OS I used significantly earlier was DOS. The GUI for WinXP is utter crap, without virtual desktops or multiple desktops. It doesn't even rival the enlightenment from 6 years ago!! How do people keep track of 20+ windows on this GUI?? (My usual number, for web surfing, reading lecture notes, programming etc.) Further, no alternate GUIs seem to be available. The computer seems to crawl once more that 10 programs or so are running (not CPU intensive ones), a problem I never had on linux. Annoyances.org was helpful to some extent but for a serious user, WinXP Pro is not even close to any of the unices.