Re: you can't bash Microsoft enough

Andrew Holme wrote:


Problems are generally due to a trade-off of current quality against vast hardware, software and backward compatibility."


It's noticeable that Linux, which used to be pushed as a way of improving the performance of older computers, no now longer installs on anything more than 3 or 4 years old and with less than 256k memory. Adding to its massive problems caused by indiscipline and incompatibility between distributions, they slipped in a major change to the way device drivers work between versions 2.4 and 2.6. Remember DLL hell? It was easy compared with dependency hell, where one library requires another before it will install, that requires a third and a fourth, until eventually one lower down requires the first again....

Despite which, once up and running, it is as good as any W....$ version, and despite poorer visual design, has been for a long time. "All" that's required is a little coordination, and buying an operating system could become a thing of the past.

Paul Burke
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