> I have used the following operating systems: [...] > Now will somebody explain to me why windows is considered not good.
There are, of course, almost as many answers to that as there are people holding that opinion. My own answers? It's closed source. It appears to put usefulness to users second to separating them from their money. It appears to be designed for users who know nothing about computers - and designed to keep them in that state. It appears to be designed around the model of large companies producing content which individual consumers consume (as opposed to peers providing things to one another). It is a monoculture. It drives the Intel ISA monoculture. By requiring ridiculously over-specced machines, it encourages the sloppy coder tendency to hide sins with hardware. It's full of gaping security holes - some by culture, some by design, some by chance. (Yes, I know some of these are easily explainable.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
