When did I complain about the "look" and "feel" of MacOS? Do you know what unstable means? I think even the most staunch Mac supporter would agree that the OS crashes, a lot. And, I imagine the people complaining about Windows are complaining about the non 32-bit versions of Windows (such as Win95/Win98/WinME/Win98SE).
I've used Macs for about 6 years, and Windows computers for about 10, and up until Win2k they were both very poor as far as stability goes. (Windows had some additional problems with compatibility/conflicts that MacOS does not face because Apple does not allow others to make hardware, and there are very fews peripherals/cards for Macs). Win2k is basically Windows NT, with more general support for "mainstream" hardware for applications besides business tasks.
But, all this will be moot if/when Mac can move over to the Unix-core OS X. All I know is, I've been running Win2k for about a year now and can keep my computer on for weeks at a time without needing to reboot (mostly out of hardware/software needs rather than instablity), and I can count on one hand the number of times I've had anything that was close to a hard crash. OTOH, with Win98 I would reboot at least once a day, crash even more often, and had to reinstall from scratch the OS at least once every couple of months in order to avoid headaches in figuring out what some weird problem was.
At 04:45 AM 12/5/2000 -0400, you wrote:
quoted 17 lines Bill Wright wrote:>Bill Wright wrote:
>
> > Windows 98 and its variants are as unstable as MacOS.
>
>I wasn't aware that the MacOS is unstable !? Actually, implying that the MacOS is
>more unstable than Win98 kinda makes me laugh. I mean it's not perfect, the memory
>allocation issues being my biggest annoyance, but overall I think it just feels
>"smoother" and less cluttered than Windows. It seems to be more logically laid out
>and there are less conflicting elements in the OS. I don't know, you just generally
>don't hear Mac users complain about how the OS they use sucks, like you do from
>Windows people.
>
> > Windows 2000, however, is nearly as stable as Linux/Unix.
>
>Isn't it kinda early to say that ? Plus I just find that hard to believe.
>
>Andrei
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org
For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org