Far be it from me you to argue the issue with you, but...
XP is actually quite customizable but the learning curve is even steeper
than for Unix. I have a 1298 page book* here by my side that has most of
that information in it.
*"Windows XP Inside and Out, 2nd ed"; by Bott, Siechert, and Stinson.
Published by Microsoft Press, 2005.
graywolf
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Cory Papenfuss wrote:
On Mon, 1 May 2006, graywolf wrote:
Well, XP is a fairly decent OS. Bloated as hell, mind you,but that
applies to most Linux distributiions too. It hardly ever crashes. Of
course if you do not know how to tame it Redmond keeps changing it
with those nasty automatic updates. One a couple of months ago changed
the look and feel on me. I shall have to go back and reload XP from
the CD on this machine with updates turned off, I guess.
Just to put my position in perspective here, Cory, I have been running
Slackware since 0.9.
Ignoring the known security issues, two things are necessary to make
a system useful IMO: Virtual desktops and a good window manager. I've
tried a number of virtual desktops under winders and they're all
fundamentally broken due to the crappy scheduler and the way winders
draws windows. The window manager is broken and unchangeable... and I
don't count changing the Tele-tubby icons as being "changable."
I do agree that the later linux distros are bloated. A bit annoying
as far as I'm concerned... especially with the GTK2 thinking that "less
is more" in functionality. At least it's possible to choose a smaller
on or whittle down a bigger one into something lightweight. With
Winders you're pretty much stuck.
-Cory
