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Starting up.  Showing the start menu.  Opening My Computer.  Displaying drives, folders, files.  Opening windows menu.  Right clicking.  Displaying a window.  These things should not take several seconds.  I shudder to think of Windows Vista, where menus will be prettier, without being efficient.

This is one of the reasons I don't use Windows anymore.

Starting up takes more on Linux than it does on Windows XP.

If showing the start menu, opening my computer, etc. takes several seconds, then you've failed at Windows, your configuration sucks, you have all kinds of crap in the registry, and you probabaly have a whole collection of malware.

I'm running Windows 2000 on a 3+ years old computer and I got it to work faster than today's average Windows install in use.

>> your configuration sucks, you have all kinds of crap in the registry, and you probabaly have a whole collection of malware.

This is another of the reasons I don't use Windows anymore.

>>4
that has nothing to do with windows, rather the administration of said system

you can fuck up linux or bsd equally bad if youre fucking clueless about how to maintain the system

>>5
Except Windows helps you do it. With Linux, you actually have to do something stupid, like run user apps as root.

>>5
Linux is hard to configure correctly.
Windows is hard not to configure incorrectly.

Double negatives ain't not a bad idea.

>>7
Truth.

Let's see, the fact Windows looks easy doesn't mean it'll be perfect out of the box, or it should be left unattended in a luser's hands. If you want a decent system, you gotta know how to configure and maintain it properly. And that can be done in both Windows and Linux.

>>4 may very well be a Linux expert/fanatic who will take a week to do everything necessary for it to go smooth, then he/she goes and tries Windows out of the box, and trolls at message boards saying it sucks because it's M$ shit and all.

If you know about Windows what you need to know about Linux, you'd have no problems with it. In fact, I've found while Linux is more suitable for a server, Windows makes for a much better, faster workstation.

>>9
I am >>4 and >>7

lol

>>10
well >>4 is a ridiculously trolltastic post, try harder

the only semi valid point in there is that jumble of shit in windows known as a "registry" truly does suck, just on its face.. even on a properly maintained system (which would have no malware and only necessary services enabled btw)

>>11
age for profound truth

Even when everything is going the way it should, the registry is a tangle of loose wires.