Microsoft Windows is pathetic
Courtesy of peru, lili eta marije
I know this title is going to bore the hell out of most of you. We had this religious fight about Linux, Windows and Mac OS and other OS’s for the last 20 years and longer 🙂
I’m right now sitting in a conference, like almost every week, and right now, as in many cases in the past month, the presenter is busy clicking away pop-up messages from the presentation laptop running Windows. “Process X has experienced problems and needs to close. Do you want to send a report?”. “Process Y has experienced problems and needs to close. Do you want to send a report?”. “Adobe Reader is outdated but there is an update available. Do you want to update now?”. No, I don’t. Ok, the latter is not a windows problem but a problem of the spirit that Windows evaporates.
Dear Microsoft: Computers are for doing work or having fun (playing games, watching videos, listening to music). In all of the cases, the user has made a decision to perform a particular activity, such as presenting a talk. It is not up to you to point out that now he or she should be doing something else, such as updating your outdated operating system (or should I say: User Interface?) What is the consequence? Use MacOS or Linux for presentations (the latter only if you know how to use xrandr :-)).
Categorised as: Open Science
About Linux/xrandr… that did wonders for me for a few years indeed… However, I have to say, with Debian 6.0 and KDE 4.5+ I have not had any need for xrandr anymore, and the KDE config dialog does what it exists for properly.
Couldn’t agree with you more, and Egon on the improvements in recent versions of KDE. Mac suffers the eternal “where did I put my VGA dongle…” issue too.