Martell, Larry wrote:
On Monday 28 February 2005 09:26 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:I have to concur with Larry. Windows is a nightmare of frustration for me. I have been involved in UNIX support for nearly twenty years and Linux for about nine. I have managed not to use Windows except very superficially in passing until very recently when my wife bought an Apple iPod which seems impervious to my efforts to get it mounted on my Linux box. My only choice at the moment is to run Windows on my laptop using Samba to allow iTunes to access a directory containing MP3 files on the Linux server. What a pain! Editing text files is particularly irritating because my fingers operate in "vi" mode reflexively.
Julie Sloan wrote:
Was it harder adapting to XP, or Linux?
It's worse coming the other way. I started on BSD unix version III running on
a DEC PDP-7 in the late 70's. For the next 26 years I worked exclusively on
various unix's systems - ATT SVR4, HPUX, AUX, Solaris, etc. For family use we have
always had Mac's. I managed to never once use a windows machine or intel
hardware. Well that all changed last November. I was forced (because I like to eat)
to take job where I am now working in the wintel environment. This has been the most
frustrating 3 months of my life. A large part of it is my mental block against this
environment, but it's also because windows seems to be random while unix is
orthogonal and deterministic. I swear I think there a random number generator in
windows and when you boot it that determines how it will function that day ;-)
But I learn so much new stuff every day ... and I have managed to bring in 2 linux boxes here (and I've only been here 3 months!) I just wish there was a list like this for windows!
-larry
I also find myself cursing over Windows' apparent lack of consistency in terms of where it decides to save things. I could go on...
Fortunately I found something called Cygwin which renders certain aspects of my Windows partition more congenial.
My main impression of Windows is that it makes a lot of things unnecessarily difficult!
regards Duncan
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