Plaidophile

Damn, I've never had that kind of problem with Windows before.

And it appears that I can post again. =D

Gah, Windows ME harder ;-P

Actually, what sucks about Windows is not so much that it's been known to break (Linux does that occasionally, too) - it's that when it breaks, you haven't the foggiest idea why. Any error messages, if you get any, basically amount to 'something went wrong. You're not smart enough to understand it, so we won't tell you more. Something broke. Call Microsoft.' That is what completely sucks about Windows.

Hunh? I had another bit attached to that comment about USB mice and Win2k being annoying about them (while MacOS and Linux, for the most part, aren't), but either mt, Mozilla or my dumbbunny proxy ate it. Feh.

I'm using XP. As long as I've used it, it has never broken on me. Even when I'm running a piece of buggy crap like 3ds Max(which wants ALL of my ram, not just some), it runs nice and solid. As Fluffy said about Macs, "It just works."

Windows ME on the other hand was a mistake from the beginning. Truly something to forget. It was a freakin' nightmare.

I think XP is the first thing Microsoft actually got right. Heh.
Give it enough ram and it will treat you like a king.

I think one thing Apple has going for it is the fact that they make their own hardware. That way you know everything runs 100%
With x86 hardware, you have good quality stuff and bad quality stuff. I've seen Windows crap out on cheap hardware and run like a dream on more expensive hardware. The biggest problems seem to lie with crappy motherboards. That's a problem you don't have to worry about with a Mac.

Of course, I just make sure I buy good hardware so I won't run into those problems(and I haven't since I bought my Athlon). It requires a bit more research on my part, but it's worth it to me. =)

Hm. XP is OK, I suppose, but I can't honestly say I like it that much more than 2k. That, and it still has the infuriating 'it broke. No, you're too dumb to know why.' One thing I rather like about Linux is that when things do bust, you get a pretty good clue why, which saved my bacon recently when trying to get it working on my Athlon64. Fortunately, Windows already had drivers - if not, I'd have been out of luck.

XP still has problems. There are times on my box where I click an "open file" link only to have it take on the order of a minute or two to list my drives.

The Windows GUI seems to have some really stupid caching going on. Every once in a while you'll be stuck watching an hourglass for ages.

ucb - yes. Absofragginglutely. NT4 is particularly abysmal about this, but even Win2k and XP do it from time to time. Now, I've had QT apps (but almost never GTK or Motif) do this from time to time on Linux, and occasionally a MacOS fileselector will lag a little, but it's usually just a momentary snag or stick, while the Windows version of the same has been known to make the mouse freeze for 5 seconds or so before leaving me at an unpredictably long hourglass, leading to extreme irritation.

God forbid if you should try to open a fileselector immediately after inserting a CD or DVD... (Which is why Windows-style automounting sucks. Mac-style, where you can't see the device until it's mounted, is better.)

The problem is the second and beyond mouse buttons. The complexity added to the system causes it to be unstable. This is why Jobs refuses to update his antique hardware.

Really? The first thing I did when I got this iBook was plugged in a nice three-button scrollwheel mouse, and it worked perfectly with every application...

Okay, we know that mice with additional buttons work, but honestly my real beef is with the laptops. Any portable device that requires me to carry other devices to use it well just stinks of horrid design. And this from a company who makes it's bread and butter off of design.

If I ever pay to own a Mac again, it will be a notebook (and not the super shitty iBook I have at work) - but I won't ever pay to own one until it joins us in the 21st century and gives me a minimum of two mouse buttons.

Yes, because ctrl-click is SO FUCKING HARD.

Whiner.