On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 18:06:59 -0800 "H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 01:56:32AM +0000, Vlad Levenfeld via Digitalmars-d > wrote: > > On Wednesday, 21 January 2015 at 01:52:51 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d > > wrote: > > >On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 01:44:07 +0000 > > >Vlad Levenfeld via Digitalmars-d <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >i can see how this thread slowly turning into "how i was forced to > > >live with windows and how painful it was" thread. ;-) > > > > Well misery loves company, and right now MS & NI are the two companies > > making me miserable :) > > I left the MS world after DOS stopped being viable (I have always hated > Windows) more than a decade ago, and have never looked back since. Every > now and then I'm forced to use Windows (or worse yet, asked to > diagnose/fix problems on my wife's Windows laptop), and I hate every > second of it. :-P Luckily, putty[1] alleviates some of the pain. :-) > > [1] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ and you know what is the most frustrating thing in windows for me? it's the fact that when i'm using console, i must hit ESC only once! ;-) i must confess that i was heavy windows user and windows programmer 'till 2002 (or something, i don't remember the exact date). i've seen some *nix systems before, i even knew how to quit vi, but was never using *nix OS as my primary one. and then i was forced to move to GNU/Linux, 'cause my employer was not able to buy enough windows licenses, and someone decides that it's time to throw windows out of the window. ;-) and now i can't understand anymore why i was happy with windows. i really love my terminal and all the power *nix utilities gave me! ;-)
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