22nd March 2006, 10:00 PM
On the criticism of the OS, I have to add one thing. Why don't a lot of people switch to something else? Games. Games games and more games. When they get some perfect emulation going, I'll switch to something easier to use. I will say this. It's a little harsh to call Windows a horrible OS. XP does it's job pretty well. The instability problems only really exist if people are installing a bunch of stuff that fights with other stuff for resources or are just junk programs outright. However, that might be some of the point. The OS is more stable to things like that than before, but it isn't even close to idiot proof. I don't demand that from my OS, but the average consumer has good cause to. At any rate, I recently upgraded my hard drive to a nice 200 gig fellow and stuck my old 80 gig as a secondary. I'm thinking of setting up a new Linux partition and experimenting with that again. I might try Ubunto this time around. One thing of note, I've been experimenting with Open Office and they seem to have pretty much copied every single aspect of MS Office into it, except an Outlook clone, but they did add a heavy duty math application which is very nice. I've pretty much ditched MS Office in favor of it at this point. Now then, all I need is a decent replacement for Outlook. Any recommendations?
(By the way, still not willing to go to something other than IE. Most sites are still designed with IE in mind and until otherwise I'm going to use what works.)
(By the way, still not willing to go to something other than IE. Most sites are still designed with IE in mind and until otherwise I'm going to use what works.)
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)