Linked by Kristofer Jarl on Fri 23rd Jul 2004 05:38 UTC
The smell of newly purchased stuff... So, there I was, Hauppauge WinTV board in hand, Mandrake 10 installed and ready to rock! Little did I expect that it would come to this. But first things first. 
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It amazes me how adament some people are in thier choice of software. Personally i use Windows and Slackware 10 on my desktop, and OS X on my laptop. They all have thier uses.
And to respond to some of the nonsense bashing in this thread:
Now any happy windows users could please explain how it can be used for an effective desktop with the chumpy panels
What the hell are chumpy panels? and where can i find them i'd like to see these.
with the general lag of the start menu
Not sure what system you're running but my start menu seems to be responding just fine. Its much faster than the KDE or Gnome menu's thats for sure.
with icons flashing every 1-2 hours showing that the graphics shell has died and got reloaded
again what the hell are you tlaking about? what icons flash every 1-2 hours?
without a decent default browser
Horray! one point that seems to make sense. Ie sucks, i agree.
without built-in virtual desktops
You know 90% of people would never use them, why install them if you dont want them (oh wait thats the Linux mentality, install as much grabage as possible by default even if 90% of it is totally useless to the average user).
Added to that microsoft Offers them to download from their site if you want them.
without task manager actually being able to kill tasks even if they dont want to die, etc.
Actually if you go to the "processes" tab and kill the task it'll die imemdiatly.
Oh an also to the fellow with the geforce FX 5700, i have one, and windows xp pro installs just fine, in fact i even get a desktop that can go up to my monitors maximum resolution in 32-bit color, only thing i can't do without drivers is play 3d games.
And to clear thigns up. I'm not a Windows Zealot, I just feel that alot of the posts in this thread about normal windows usage were totally unjust. Windows works great for normal everyday work when its patched up and isnt using IE. As for business work where your data is vitally important, I wouldn't trust it.