On 06/26/2015 12:09 PM, Dicebot wrote:
Judging purely by feature set, Win 10 looks first Windows ever which
will actually be usable for work.
It'll still look like unicorn vomit, though. And they don't let you
change that anymore. And MS doesn't let you reconfigure much these days,
so you may as well just be using Ubuntu or even OSX.
At least it will have multiple
desktops and primitive package management. And no, Windows XP was not
usable by any means.
I'll take a present-day Linux over XP anyway, but:
I used Linux back around that time, in 2001/2002. It wasn't remotely
"usable" either:
- Just installing one program meant hours of fucking with manual
.deb/.rpm dependency resolution, IF you were lucky enough to even get a
.deb/.rpm so you could benefit from actually being told "no, those
versions of those two packages are incompatible" in the first place.
- KDE and Gnome were absurdly sluggish bloatware (XP, even with it's
higher-than-9x requirements, still just zipped along on the same
hardware that KDE/Gnome would bring to a crawl). And the other GUIs were
either outright garbage or required days of configuring just to make
them usable, let alone anything resembling "nice" or "professional" or
"reasonably well thought out.
- And X would literally destroy itself after about a week or two and
need a complete reinstall - unless you actually *understood* X's
configuration file mess, in which case: god help you ;).
I'd take XP over that any day ;)
Of course, modern-day Windows and Linux are entirely different stories.
