- Nov 10, 2013
- 4
- 0
- 10,520
Please pardon the intrusion but I had to finally rant, somewhere.
God damnit I hate Windows.
Having worked with and in telecom since 1979, by far Windows has provided the worst experiences, ever. Whenever I get a call asking for help, 9.8 times out of 10 it is about Windows. The list of hours I have had to put in fixing Windows problems, Windows illogic, Windows failures, WIndows breakages, is legion. But let me write about my latest rant.
An 86 year old man, highly technical in his day but mental facilities are slowing, yet still strong, has acquired a Windows 8 machine. A goddamn mess. I do not use Windows. Stay as far away from it as possible. But helping this man transition from Win 7 to Win 8 has exposed me to the cluster f**k that is, WIn 8.
Migrating data from Win 7 to Win 8.... hours. Migrating across Linux the same type of data... minutes.
Point 2. Why in the bloody hell does anyone think changing the default appearance without providing the ability in a few clicks, and making it obvious... is sane? It is not. Ubuntu did this recently and it was a similar mess. Give the user a familiar navigation for god's sakes. And easy to get to. Relearning navigation for an 86 year old man or anyone for that matter is insane.
Upgrades broke the bloody hell out of the machine. I had to spend hours trying to figure out why the god damned drivers broke into pieces when the system upgraded. An 86 year old person should never, ever be exposed to such torture. The engineers who manage the logic not to mention the upgrade paths should be drawn and quartered for the beyond poor upgrade paths. There is far more to this episode but will leave it at that. Tho I find the logic and upgrade completeness beyond mediocre. Always have.
Solitaire. Yeah, so what. Except after all the upgrading and failures, and breaking and repairs ON A NEW MACHINE and f**ked up navigation and relearning... the 86 year old gent asked that he have Solitaire. I then find you can't. Not without subscribing to Xbox and jumping through more hoops to, well... screw the explanation. More insane logic on the part of MS. YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME.
I could go on, and on, and on. Thank you for letting me rant. I suspect this will be removed but I had to write something somewhere. It goes without question MS has created many many jobs and applications for people, to fix, to overcome, to repair, to make work... their crappy OS. Way back when, when IBM was looking for an OS and was on the cusp of choosing CPM but chose what became MS... the world was worse off. It has been a never ending crap shoot with WIndows. Which is why I made my way with Linux and never ever ever have the problems that WIndows users have. Ever.
So to end this rant, I reinstalled Win 7 to put the 86 year old gent back into at least some familiarity. And I am doing this UNDER Linux via a Virtual machine so I can avoid for the umpteenth time reinstalling Windows when, not if, but when it breaks.
I hate windows. I hate windows for what it does to folks like this 86 year old man who just wants to get on. Oh... the reason for going to WIndows 8? Easy. His Windows 7 laptop had been degrading for months and it was time to get a new machine, that came with Windows 8. The best solution was to install Linux, run a Virtual machine using Win 7, and get the gent back to what he was used to.
So beg my pardon. I had to unload. I hate windows.
/off rant
God damnit I hate Windows.
Having worked with and in telecom since 1979, by far Windows has provided the worst experiences, ever. Whenever I get a call asking for help, 9.8 times out of 10 it is about Windows. The list of hours I have had to put in fixing Windows problems, Windows illogic, Windows failures, WIndows breakages, is legion. But let me write about my latest rant.
An 86 year old man, highly technical in his day but mental facilities are slowing, yet still strong, has acquired a Windows 8 machine. A goddamn mess. I do not use Windows. Stay as far away from it as possible. But helping this man transition from Win 7 to Win 8 has exposed me to the cluster f**k that is, WIn 8.
Migrating data from Win 7 to Win 8.... hours. Migrating across Linux the same type of data... minutes.
Point 2. Why in the bloody hell does anyone think changing the default appearance without providing the ability in a few clicks, and making it obvious... is sane? It is not. Ubuntu did this recently and it was a similar mess. Give the user a familiar navigation for god's sakes. And easy to get to. Relearning navigation for an 86 year old man or anyone for that matter is insane.
Upgrades broke the bloody hell out of the machine. I had to spend hours trying to figure out why the god damned drivers broke into pieces when the system upgraded. An 86 year old person should never, ever be exposed to such torture. The engineers who manage the logic not to mention the upgrade paths should be drawn and quartered for the beyond poor upgrade paths. There is far more to this episode but will leave it at that. Tho I find the logic and upgrade completeness beyond mediocre. Always have.
Solitaire. Yeah, so what. Except after all the upgrading and failures, and breaking and repairs ON A NEW MACHINE and f**ked up navigation and relearning... the 86 year old gent asked that he have Solitaire. I then find you can't. Not without subscribing to Xbox and jumping through more hoops to, well... screw the explanation. More insane logic on the part of MS. YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME.
I could go on, and on, and on. Thank you for letting me rant. I suspect this will be removed but I had to write something somewhere. It goes without question MS has created many many jobs and applications for people, to fix, to overcome, to repair, to make work... their crappy OS. Way back when, when IBM was looking for an OS and was on the cusp of choosing CPM but chose what became MS... the world was worse off. It has been a never ending crap shoot with WIndows. Which is why I made my way with Linux and never ever ever have the problems that WIndows users have. Ever.
So to end this rant, I reinstalled Win 7 to put the 86 year old gent back into at least some familiarity. And I am doing this UNDER Linux via a Virtual machine so I can avoid for the umpteenth time reinstalling Windows when, not if, but when it breaks.
I hate windows. I hate windows for what it does to folks like this 86 year old man who just wants to get on. Oh... the reason for going to WIndows 8? Easy. His Windows 7 laptop had been degrading for months and it was time to get a new machine, that came with Windows 8. The best solution was to install Linux, run a Virtual machine using Win 7, and get the gent back to what he was used to.
So beg my pardon. I had to unload. I hate windows.
/off rant
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram