I don't know what it is about XP

[docwebster]

But I loathe that OS. Instinctively. There's just something about that offends me on a gut level. I *like* 98SE, dammit. I know what to expect, I know How Things Work (to an admittedly minor degree), and I run a great many programs that I depend on and XP just does not play nice with.

Before anybody mentions the L word OS, don't bother. One of the programs I absolutely rely on to be able to take requests and maintain logs thereof simply does not exist on the L word OS.

Feh.

Anyway, I'm going to have a rather tasty show Saturday night featuring a show from The Grateful Dead circa 1987. See you then, folken.

Comments

[bunyip.livejournal.com]

Have you tried Win2K?

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

Well, I once tried Win2K Server and abandoned it almost immediately because it Doesn't Like You To Change Hardware. I upgrade video card, capture cards and sound cards, and Server completely loses it's mind if you do that. I'm given to understand 2K Pro is better about that.

[bunyip.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, much much better.

[bunyip.livejournal.com]

The problem I have with XP being a long time Windows hacker (I have used Windows off and on since Win3.1) ... too much is hidden away because the average user doesn't need to know, but you have to fuck around too much to get a poweruser interface rather than the made by Fisher Price default.

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

poweruser interface rather than the made by Fisher Price default.

Tellytubby layer! :-)

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

"Tellytubby layer! :-)"

Your private life's your own, dear. - Alan Titchmarsh

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Indeed. But the default style of XP reminds us a great deal of the Tellytubbies. All rounded and muted primary colors.

If XP has a Tellytubby interface...

[fernblatt.livejournal.com]

...what about the even more stripped down (gag) WindowsME???? Feh. To me *that* is Fisher Price.

I've with doc on the 98SE, even though 4 out of the 5 machine in that house
are macs running OSX.

Re: If XP has a Tellytubby interface...

[bunyip.livejournal.com]

XP makes ME look not stripped down

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

XP does have an option to run things in 95 emulator (it might be 98).

The one nice thing I've observed about XP is that when you've got games that require 256 color then you can set it up to switch to 256 color when you start the game and then have it switch back to your normal color when you exit the game.

That said... can you upgrade the box to XP Pro?

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Personally, I use M.E, it's stable [as far as M$ products go] and it doesn't insult your intelligence like XP. Nice to know that someone else saw it and thought fischer-price and/or tellytubbies.

Of course, you know why the latest version of windows is called Longhorn?
Because it's a Cow of a system, full of Bullshit, and the customers are gonna get gored !

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

Win2k pro is the best windows product I've seen thus far.

[nehi.livejournal.com]

mom or adam: why don't you just upgrade to Win(blahblahblah), so you can do (blah)?
me: *inarticulate shreaking and wild protective gesturing.* No! My '98! Mine! Good. NO TOUCHEEEEE!

*ahem.*

you will get me to stop running 98SE on my computer when it finally explodes and I have to rebuild from scratch and they install another OS behind my back. :)