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mcwkm
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 Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:54 pm Post subject: What was your favorite windows experience? |
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So what is everyone's favorite windows version? Also anyone got any good windows memories?
I love the older windows versions even though they were horrible when I think about it.
I loved when I first got windows3.1. It just simplified everything and I rarely had to use dos anymore. But then 5+ years past and I wished I never had forgotten all those dos commands.
Another favorite memory of mine was that blue screen of death I got everytime I went to shut off my win98 computer. It was like I'll run fine for 7 hours, oh wait you want to shut me down, its time to freeze up constantly. |
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Windows 2000 for being a stable product targeted at consumers.
Windows XP for being the best platform to play games on.
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Removing it.
Other than that, it would just be playing my favourite game Age of Empires II online but once that game removed the online play, the game became worthless and therefore, Windows became worthless. The constant reformatting and virus' became an unnecessary liability, so I couldn't have been happier to remove it and transfer my gaming fix to a console.
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Server 2003 is the best one cause of its stability.
The best experience is removing it indeed.
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mcwkm
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Windows may have a lot virus but if your actually careful with what you do on your system you should have no problem with them.
Windows 2000 wasn't really targeted at home users |
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Scott
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I don't really see virus' as a problem personally for when I used Windows, usually just common sense avoids most of them but as I said it is an unnecessary problem and I would rather just not have to worry about whether I have a trojan or a keylogger, when logging into PayPal or any financial related sites.
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mcwkm
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| Keyloggers, trojans, virus and all malware exist on all systems. The majority just happen to be written for Windows because it has a dominant share of the market that is not threatened by any other operating system. |
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Server 2008 was and is my best Windows experience. No clutter, runs for weeks on end with restarts usually only when requested by an installation or something. Running as a standard user, I'm yet to detect any malware, only some "adware" has been detected so far and those are usually cookies. Only problem was some BSODs but turns out the NTFS file system was corrupted, a chkdsk solved it.
mcwkm: Giving everyone admin access by default means malware is written more easily and can affect parts of the system that normally should not be affected.
| Scott wrote: | Removing it.
Other than that, it would just be playing my favourite game Age of Empires II online but once that game removed the online play, the game became worthless and therefore, Windows became worthless. The constant reformatting and virus' became an unnecessary liability, so I couldn't have been happier to remove it and transfer my gaming fix to a console. |
GameSpy was the spot for AOE2 multiplayer after MSN removed online play for it. Now GameSpy is not very active, but there is the International Gaming Zone which is basically a clone of MSN Gaming Zone. Quite active.
http://igzones.com/
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| mcwkm wrote: | | Keyloggers, trojans, virus and all malware exist on all systems. The majority just happen to be written for Windows because it has a dominant share of the market that is not threatened by any other operating system. |
Yea, yea same old story of the market share that everyone says... some day Firefox will be as bad as IE, Mac/Linux will be as bad as Windows etc.
The simple fact is that for one, I do not operate my computer under root, unlike Windows where most of the time users are. Second, I only install software from the Linux repositories, which is only trusted software.
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mcwkm
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| Scott wrote: | | mcwkm wrote: | | Keyloggers, trojans, virus and all malware exist on all systems. The majority just happen to be written for Windows because it has a dominant share of the market that is not threatened by any other operating system. |
Yea, yea same old story of the market share that everyone says... some day Firefox will be as bad as IE, Mac/Linux will be as bad as Windows etc.
The simple fact is that for one, I do not operate my computer under root, unlike Windows where most of the time users are. Second, I only install software from the Linux repositories, which is only trusted software. |
I can make a linux repository that has no trusted software. You must be thinking of official repositories and in that case your computing experience can severely suffer from lack of freedom.
Firefox has become a bloated piece of software and the whole Mozilla project is full of bloated code. Keyloggers don't need access to root to run so your clearly living in a fantasy world where your only protected by the small market share of linux where there is less targets against its users.
Windows has its problems and one of them is making it pretty much default to run as root for home users but some people are not intelligent enough to know what a root account is. Windows would not be such a target if they had less of a market share. |
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| Scott wrote: | | Removing it. |
I like that one. It was my favourite Windows experience as well. By 1993, Linux distributions were complete enough and stable enough that I could completely do without ever having to use Microsoft software ever again. I have not used it since except when the client or employer situation leave me no choice.
I remember gleefully paving over my hard disc with Linux that day and I look forward to doing it for my current employer someday real soon too.
There really is no excuse to be doing Windows any longer.
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The entire reason I started this thread was to try and keep the discussions of windows vs linux nonexistent because I have seen it multiple times on this board and any discussion of open vs closed source software can basically develop into it here but of course someone has to start the discussion.
Oh and thanks windows users who actually didnt invade my distro thread. |
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| Edmund Burke wrote: | | The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing. |
Evil must be confronted wherever it raises its ugly head. To speak of Windows, or any Microsoft product, in positive terms, as if the use of Windows is a morally acceptable act, is evil. I have contronted it.
Besides, you asked for positive Windows experiences. The only positive Windows experience is not not use Windows or to remove it from use. I gave you my one and only positive Windows experience.
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Windows XP would probably be my best experience. My first computer came with that and it was easy to get used to it.
| mcwkm wrote: | Windows may have a lot virus but if your actually careful with what you do on your system you should have no problem with them.
Windows 2000 wasn't really targeted at home users |
Unfortunately Microsoft released Windows ME quite late and to add on to that released Windows XP less than one year later.
I would be quite interested to try out Windows 2000. I managed to get my hands on a disc.
| Scott wrote: | | I don't really see virus' as a problem personally for when I used Windows, usually just common sense avoids most of them but as I said it is an unnecessary problem and I would rather just not have to worry about whether I have a trojan or a keylogger, when logging into PayPal or any financial related sites. |
If you talk about common sense I suppose I have it too.
But unfortunately I got files which come clean when I download it, when somehow a few months later it just got mysteriously infected.
| linuxdoctor wrote: | | Edmund Burke wrote: | | The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing. |
Evil must be confronted wherever it raises its ugly head. To speak of Windows, or any Microsoft product, in positive terms, as if the use of Windows is a morally acceptable act, is evil. I have contronted it.
Besides, you asked for positive Windows experiences. The only positive Windows experience is not not use Windows or to remove it from use. I gave you my one and only positive Windows experience. |
That's what you think. I don't regard Microsoft as evil, at least.
We thank you for sharing with us your valuable experience, but I (and possibly other users here) hope that we can keep the "Windows hate" comments out of this topic so as to prevent the usual OS war.
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"Hey look, a reply notification!"
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ruyss
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I'm quite happy with Windows XP to be honest, of course it isn't as stable as Fedora but it's easier to game on XP and some software I need for school is Windows-only.
I really can't complain about XP, it does what it should do just fine and I don't have a lot of problems with it. Of course, there's still the regular format of the hard drive and some weird problem with the OS once in a while, but that's part of the windows experience if you ask me 
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