I've been using Linux for a long time. Can someone tell me what a Microsoft Operating System looks like?
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I've been using Linux for a long time. Can someone tell me what a Microsoft Operating System looks like?
Screenshots of Windows 95 captured by me from VMWare
http://barbapapqa.dyndsl.com/concon/2.jpg
http://barbapapqa.dyndsl.com/concon/3.jpg
Windows 2000 and XP looks alot nicer, though.
Wow, that sucks. Here's my screenshot.
http://www.flashdaddee.com/forums/sh...&threadid=3977
XP on the beach :P
Honestly, why do people complain that Windows is unstable? I've used it in my 'entire' life, and I rarely get the blue screen (haven't happened in years, in fact). The programs do hang sometimes, but they do it in unix too. Trust me, I know :).Quote:
Originally posted by Sang-drax
Screenshots of Windows 95 captured by me from VMWare
http://barbapapqa.dyndsl.com/concon/2.jpg
http://barbapapqa.dyndsl.com/concon/3.jpg
Windows 2000 and XP looks alot nicer, though.
If you get lots of crashes, then you do something wrong when using Windows. Of course you can't have 1000 programs open and running at the same time.
Compare it with a car. To drive a car, you have to do things in a certain way for it to work properly. If you don't, then it won't go, or it will break.
And when most programs crash, it's because the developer of the software (the programs, not the OS) has made a mistake.
Seriously, the screenshot posted by RoD looks approximately 70065.934 times better than that madrake screenshot. I have XP, too.Quote:
Originally posted by Troll_King
Wow, that sucks. Here's my screenshot.
http://www.flashdaddee.com/forums/sh...&threadid=3977
Check out these cool and funny error messages, found on a webiste:
Quote:
Winerr 001 : Windows loaded - System in danger
Winerr 002 : No error - yet
Winerr 003 : Dynaimc Linking Error - Your mistake is now in every file
Winerr 004 : Erroneous Error - Nothing is wrong
Winerr 005 : Multitasking Attempted - System confused
Winerr 006 : Malicious Error - Desqview found on drive
Winerr 007 : System Price Error - Inadequate money spent on hardware
Winerr 008 : Broken Window - Watch out for glass fragments
Winerr 009 : Horrible Bug Encountered - God knows what has happened
Winerr 00A : Promotional Literature Overflow - Mailbox full
Winerr 00B : Inadequate Disk Space - Free at least 50MB
Winerr 00C : Window Closed - Do not look outside!
Winerr 00D : Window Open - Do not look inside!
Winerr 00E : Unexplained Error - Please tell us how this happened
Winerr 00F : Reserved For Future Mistakes By Our Developers
Winerr 010 : Unexpected Error - Huh?
Winerr 011 : Keyboard Locked - Try anything you can think of...
Winerr 012 : Illegal Error - You are not allowed to get this error, next time you will be penalised!
Winerr 013 : System Crash - We are unable to figure out our own code!
Winerr 014 : Timing Error - Please wait, and wait, and wait, and wait...
Winerr 042 : Error : Virus requires Windows 3.11 or later
Winerr 079 : Mouse Error : Mouse driver not installed, please click cancel to continue
Winerr 678 : This will end your Windows session, do you wish to play another game?
Winerr 683 : Timeout Error - Operator fell asleep waiting for system to boot into Windows
Winerr 815 : Insufficient Memory - Only 50,472,563 bytes available
I'd say most of those are fake.
I mean, why would any message say: Winerr 00C : Window Closed - Do not look outside!
> I'd say most of those are fake.
I'd say the joke was lost on you :)
They were only jokes!!! (but won't be surprised if they came up! :D)Quote:
Originally posted by Magos
I'd say most of those are fake.
I mean, why would any message say: Winerr 00C : Window Closed - Do not look outside!
...ohhh...
**hitting myself with a hammer to increase my braincell activity**
If you like that u should see my boot screen! O wait you can, check this stuff out, its pretty f'n sweet!Quote:
Seriously, the screenshot posted by RoD looks approximately 70065.934 times better than that madrake screenshot. I have XP, too.
www.bootxp.net
I also think Windows (especially XP,2000) is great, and I mean it.Quote:
Originally posted by Magos
Honestly, why do people complain that Windows is unstable? I've used it in my 'entire' life, and I rarely get the blue screen (haven't happened in years, in fact).
But try this program on Windows 95 for a laugh:
(I know, I know this is an old joke, but still funny)
To be really mean, insert an [img] tag pointing to the very same location in your post. Heh.Code:#include <fstream>
int main()
{
ifstream("C:\\con\\con");
}
Well if you havent used windows for a while, I guess you havent seen one of thse for a while.
Well windows 2000/xp and linux are both stable. But xp GUI, or the general windows interface looks much better than the linux ones. You might say that linux desktop interface are configurable, but there are desktop themes for windows as well, but i tend to stick with the defaults.
Unstable? blue screen? What does that mean?
My XP does not seem to know the above words.
Of course, I can't say the same for my ME-That is another story though. I have forgiven them now.
Win xp and 2000 don't have the blue screen anymore....
I have had XP for one year, three days (yes sad that i know this), and have never suffered a program crash that wasn't my fualt.
my xp pro crashed once, but it was blamed on my crappy voodoo3
i used windows for most everything.
i used linux red hat for a half a year.
i use unix at school.
i still prefer windows.
Yes, they do!Quote:
Originally posted by Nutshell
Win xp and 2000 don't have the blue screen anymore....
My nvidia graphics drivers has generated three blue screens for me. (since February, so it's not that bad)
If you mean the one with all the white writing that says is protecting yer pc and **** to reboot, theres a fix. My V5 3dfx drivers did that:Quote:
My nvidia graphics drivers has generated three blue screens for me. (since February, so it's not that bad)
Right click my computer and open properties. Click the advanced tab and go to "Startup and recovery". You'll see a menu that says
debugging
and one that says
system failure.
Uncheck everything under sys failure and change the drop menu under debugging to "none".
if you think windows is stable give that a try on nt, xp and 2k(wont work on Me-95)...Code:for(;;)
printf("crash\t\b\b\b\b\b\b\b");
....and if you think non M/s O/s are stable, try chucking them out of the window. My old ME machine STILL worked after that!
And it was raining...:)
>>try this
wait whats that
could it be
it didn't hurt me :P
my windows 98 machine (1 ghz athlon, 128 mb ram, plenty hd space) crashed regularly, and sometimes didn't even open all the way before crashing. then i reinstalled windows, and it's much more stable (for now...)
linux has never crashed for anything other than a hardware problem for me. (that and technical problems i caused... :D)
getting back to the topic, why the... why did troll king ask such a stupid question? obviously he had seen a microsoft operating system before...
For those who don't like Gnome 2.0, check out the KDE 3.1 screenshot:
< http://static.kdenews.org/mirrors/qw...pha/2329-1.png >
Another screen shot:
< http://static.kdenews.org/mirrors/qw...1alpha/s13.png >
Linux is the ultimate OS for themes because Windows control management is decentralized. Here is the article:
< http://promo.kde.org/newsforge/kde-3.1.html >
Nice wanna-be windows screenshot :P
um no.... windows copied x-windows not the other way around...Quote:
Originally posted by Ride -or- Die
Nice wanna-be windows screenshot :P
i thought the common lore was the Windows copied mac??
Li/u/nix v. Windows discussions that degrade to "this is better than that" are pretty lame. Both have their strengths and weaknesses, and both are tailored to suit different needs.
> i thought the common lore was the Windows copied mac??
And Mac copied Xerox... We all know the story.
edit: It's all just building on other things... If you want to get down to brass tacks, we're all just "copying" Charles Babbage.
It's too bad X-Windows is a piece of crap.Quote:
Originally posted by ZerOrDie
um no.... windows copied x-windows not the other way around...
windows copied x-windows? really?
i can remember using xfree86 back before version 4 was out, and imho the quality was really bad in comparison to windows. xfree86 4 and above really helped it out.
windows copied x-windows.....yea...RITEEEEE
Although Microsoft's operating systems crash very easy and have infinate number of errors.
It's still very easy to everyone.
Bah
MS Vs LInux, it dont make no sense, i don't see how anyone could even compare them, they both have different target audiences so both with have different strengths and weaknesses.