Windows is useless

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I for one, cannot think of Windows as a real OS anymore, I think giving it the actual control of my computer to it would be too much responsibility for it.

Instead, I think windows is great... as a Linux program, that is as a "guest operating system", something you run inside a virtual machine (preferably virtual box), so this is how I am managing to do stuff lately:

- programming, documents, web browsing, surfing, research, multi desktops, CD burning, all is done in my ubuntu Host operating system. Games are handled by ubuntu as well, either natively or with WINE (which has had great successes in my case with Warcraft III, GTA, and other games I play)

The rest (compatibility with my Palm, iTunes (when I want to upgrade my firmware only, cause else I use floola) , MSOffice (just in case there really is a file I cannot open/save correctly with OpenOffice), Photoshop (though I am no artist so I am fine with gimp/inkscape anyway), and HP scanner support - those things are done inside a guest windows operating system, which usually has no internet access (unless I enable it) and is not able to access windows' update stuff.

So, I think windows is useless - as a real operating system. However as a quick compatibility patch for those things that still don't work correctly in Linux, it is great. The good thing is that this way I can be using Linux and as things progress, my windows virtual machine loses uses. I personally have not really used it for much lately, though Palm support still needs windows the only other use I have for windows is... testing the windows versions of my programs.

Looks live I've started another trend on here. People love parodying me.

Damn straight Windows is useless...

The only choice was DOS or NT. Will not work on NT but will work on 2000/XP 2000/XP ARE NT. Microsoft wrapping OpenGL with DirectX... That will make OpenGl seem slow because it's being translated.

It's not useless the discs make a very good bird scarer for the the garden.

Marry me Windows 2000

I've never used it, not even in a virtualbox. I might give it a try soon, but we'll see how it goes.

I let my XP run under VirtualBox, where it's safe, and I don't care if it dies (because I have a copy of the virtual drive it runs on). Unfortunately, I installed SP3, and that seems to break Skype. My only real use for XP is that it manages to jerkily stream some TV to me. The BBC streams fine under Linux, but the other channels all insist on buggy Windows.

I know it is, but I have had compatability issuses with linux, and I dont want to hackintosh it because osx sucks even more, so vista it is, unless i want to run server 2000

What sort of compatibility isssues nodice?

wi fi drivers, and games, couldn't get battlefield Vietnam to work with wine, and the ndis wrapper didn't work with my drivers

Whats with this endless ranting, 1st Linux, than OSX than Windows. If it was so useless why do people use Windows. Second, Why do fortune 500 companies depend on this software. When something does go wrong microsoft gladly fixes it. Sorry for ranting but its true. The only reason OSX and Linux are used is for the sake of sticking out. Not to actually get stuff down on the computer. Both are good because all Operating Systems have a purpose otherwise they wouldn't be on the market.[Same with Linix.]

I agree. Windows has its annoyances but we all use it because it has the highest usability out of all the OSes. Mac OS may be more streamlined and Linux more moldable to the user, but without Microsoft Windows, technology wouldn't be half as far as it is today.

Imagine if Microsoft went under and Apple had the majority of market share. We'd all be locked into our OSes, only doing what Apple wants us to do, only using the hardware they want us to use, never able to really use the hardware we pay for to its full potential.