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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Same old debate, but a slightly "new" perspective. I am now working with Vista a lot. It's shiny and all, but I hate it. I don't dislike it, I hate it. I am still on Kubuntu at home, mainly - buying more and more recent mac stuff by the day, to finally switch fully. Anyway, my personal "tastes" are no argument to fuel such a debate : a good and solid argument that I came to understand through usage and comparison, is how those systems manage TIME. How they "get old". And it hit me hard today : Windows changes [i]itself[/i] over time. Think about it : fragmentation to speed up accesses to disk ends up mixing file parts (and slowing down stuff). The registry, a core component of the OS, grows over time to the point of making startup darn slow. And so on and so forth. Unix-Linux-Mac OS environments, on the other hand, do NOT suffer that kind of "age effect": they have upgrades, they have config files individual to each and every "component" of the OS, there even is a device database now, but there is no such thing as disk fragmentation or a registry, eg. no "core items" of the OS get modified by their own activity. So, Windows cripples itself up [i]by design[/i], by a design that drifted from technical purism to commercial concerns, "pleasing" the audience to the point of trying to bend reality, trying to push progress beyond the boundaries of what can realistically be achieved. It's not "information at your fingertips", it's more "glowey innovation up yours", mind you. What good can trying to push, rush, dope things do? In general I mean, in life? If you answered "none, it backfires most of the time", I am 100% with you. And with the Unix legacy. Loading...
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