"Vladimir Panteleev" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:25:21 +0300, Vladimir Panteleev > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A good analogy is writing software only for Linux, because the major OS >> is so horrible. > > For what it's worth, I never had any problems with my Windows install - > the only time I reinstalled was when I upgraded to newer versions (and I > do that when I upgrade my hardware, incl. HDDs, anyway). > > From my experience of troubleshooting others' Windows computers, all the > breakages come from badly-written applications (and installers), which > overwrite system files or (sometimes forcibly) integrate themselves into > every corner of the operating system, causing instability etc. This isn't > a problem with Windows - its "problem" is that it's the most popular OS, > for which so much bad software is written (not to mention malware). >
Don't forget drivers. Half the time it seems like there isn't a single hardware manufacturer that actually knows what they're doing when it comes to writing Windows drivers.
