Have you ever gotten raving mad at Windows?
By kbalona
@kbalona (61)
United States
February 7, 2007 8:20am CST
Well I did yesterday. My motherboard gave out, and I bought a new one and installed it. After I installed it, XP would not boot up. I was told that i'd need to re-install XP. What really made me mad though, is that I booted Linux (I dual boot Linux and Windows) that was on a separate partition, and it started right up! How can a tiny Linux company make software better than a giant multi-billion dollar company like Microsoft? Anyways, I did a repair install from the XP disk, and then I could boot, but I still had to reinstall about 70 "High priority" update, patches & what-not.
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@nilotpal_c (121)
• India
9 Feb 07
The first time when I installed Windows, the power went off when installing updates. The UPS did not for some reason work, and when I rebooted the start menu would not reappear. Browserui.dll was missing. I had to use the task manager to use my programs. I got mad at that instability because I thought that a OS which charged so much should be more stable. However, after that I came to appreciate the usability of XP. Linux though is better for day to day activities. However, some application vendors do not make Linux specific applications and istalling from source may cause you to reach dependency hell. So all OSes have their own problems, I guess.
