blessingx
HeadFest '07 Graphic Designer
Supplier of fine logos! His visions of Head-Fi
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As a 19 year Windows user and 2 year OS X user, I gotta say "what works" is all about expectations. For example, if you expect your car to break down regularly, it's not a big deal if it does. Seriously, you don't know any better. It's been so refreshing to not have an anti-virus program slowing things down, worry about dll conflicts, have programs fighting for default status, have to reformat every 6 months, have IRQ hardware conflicts, etc. lately. And for an audiophile forum, that should also be about music, I'd be careful about equating what's popular as ‘good enough’. Do you want 24 hours of Britney on every station? How about only Bose headphones?
But to be honest, in 2004 I think a) Windows XP is good enough for most... and b) really irritating if you've experienced better. Believe me I've just started doing ASP programming again so had to use a Windows box once more, and those semi-daily issues are coming back.
Originally Posted by Imyourzero If Windows was so terrible, Apple would have more than the 3-5% market share that it currently holds. Windows works just fine for me and for MILLIONS of other PC users. If it was as awful as you make it seem, people would abandon it and just run Linux or switch to Mac+OSX, regardless of the consequences (such as software support). |
As a 19 year Windows user and 2 year OS X user, I gotta say "what works" is all about expectations. For example, if you expect your car to break down regularly, it's not a big deal if it does. Seriously, you don't know any better. It's been so refreshing to not have an anti-virus program slowing things down, worry about dll conflicts, have programs fighting for default status, have to reformat every 6 months, have IRQ hardware conflicts, etc. lately. And for an audiophile forum, that should also be about music, I'd be careful about equating what's popular as ‘good enough’. Do you want 24 hours of Britney on every station? How about only Bose headphones?
But to be honest, in 2004 I think a) Windows XP is good enough for most... and b) really irritating if you've experienced better. Believe me I've just started doing ASP programming again so had to use a Windows box once more, and those semi-daily issues are coming back.