Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 22nd Jun 2007 06:08 UTC
ITWire: "Linux users can, at times, be the worst kind of ingrates, whining and complaining about what they perceive as missing features in a free operating system. My advice to all such whingers: spend 10 days using the latest version of Windows and you'll realise that you are living in a world of relative bliss."
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2007-04-06
Sorry, but today's computers are not well designed. If they had a standard for storing OSes in ROMs (and the ROM would be big enough to hold updates as well as couple of OSes and would itself be replaceable with a bigger ROM) then computers would have been bootable in a second. And this ROM would be separate from whatever other storage medium being used for secondary storage (hard drives, flash based drives or whatever else).
Ever seen complex devices such as say a digital satellite receiver or a DVR? They also boot, but in a second, because they use the same technique.
Desktop OSes tend to have a lot of bloat but even without the extra stuff, a win 3.11 sized OS would not be able to do everything that you would want. It is a shame that in the history of PC development such an option was left out to rot.