OpenEuphoria

Re: [OT]: Spot poll: pre-win95 and pre-pentium

• Posted by "Derek Parnell" <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Feb 03, 2004
• 428 views

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip Deets" <philip1987 at hotmail.com>
To: <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: RE: [OT]: Spot poll: pre-win95 and pre-pentium


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> Linux.org says I have to partition my drive to install Linux.  Also, if 
> I want a nice installer, they said it costs 30-50 dollars.  I think I'll 
> just stick with Windows.

And Windows XP costs $150+ to upgrade to.
 
> Besides, I know in the earlier versions of Windows, there were lots of 
> crashes.  I have only seen Windows XP crash once, and it recovered 
> nicely when I rebooted and even allowed me to optionally send Microsoft 
> an error report.  It does freeze occasionally, but it normally recovers 
> if I push a hot key to start a program.
> 
> And also, I love the Windows GUI.  As for the statement about the 
> Windows API, isn't .NET supposed to take care of that?  I haven't looked 
> too far into .NET though, so I don't know if it actually does hide 
> complexity like MS says it does.

XP is a giant "swiss-army" knife that needs three hands to use, weighs 40lbs,
can do heaps of good stuff, and looks very pretty. However, I have only two hands
and just need a knife to butter my bread.

-- 
Derek