Top things you HATE about your OS

[xodarap]

Come on we all have them let it it out let it all out

Im a win 98 man

1. The magical mistykal disapearing DLL
2. Microsoft vain attempts to "Make it Pretrty"
3. I spend that much RAM on this?!
4. The sys reg revenge reaking assistant to the mystical DLL's
5. The start menu uses 1/5 of the screen for nearly anything you do in winbklows!
6. Allows AoHell and other programs to cover the intire Screen with Icons!
7. How much of the disk is reserved for "Desktop Themes" again?!

 

[MrChicken]

My #1 annoyance is when you are cruising through the start menu and any other activity kills the start menu.

 

[cirrus1]

One of my big annoyances is when IE goes down it usually takes the task bar icons with it. Then you have to log out or reboot

 

[FOBSIDE]

im in win2k.

1. its ugly. can anyone explain why in windows the "x" for close window is separated with a little gap from the minimize maximize button? i think thats dumb.
2. the file structure is retarded. mac os has the right idea. everything is in separate folders for the os and for the programs. theres no dll files floating around. you wanna delete a program, delete that folder. you wanna backup the os. copy the folder.

 

[JellyBaby]

- The Start Menu will not keep alphabetical order unless you putz with the registry.
- File Open/Save dialogs are frickin' small and you can't resize them! WTFG Bill on that one.
- Can't define custom resolutions unless you putz with the registry.
- Of course lockups (win 98 se here).

If I wanted to I could go on for days. :disgust:

 

[Wuming]

actually i haven't got much to complain about win98 nowadays....

maybe the BSODs? and all the indecipherable error messages that come with them. and of course the message when windows executes scandisk during booting if you are forced by one of the BSODs to hard reset your system (this happens to be in one of the favourite blue colors as well), saying "If you don't want to see this message again, shut down windows properly from the start menu". as if we got such a chance when we meet the BSODs!

 

[MGMorden]

Windows: Bad file system design and lack of good compiler software. Also lack of customization capabilities.
Linux: KDE2 is kinda buggy (but I love it all the same). Lack of some drivers and game support.

 

[Budman]

<< - The Start Menu will not keep alphabetical order unless you putz with the registry. >>




JellyBaby all you have to do is when you're in the start menu just right click &amp; select Sort by Name.

 

[CTho9305]

Cirrus (can't remember your name ) - if you go into the advanced tab of the IE options, there should be a check box with something like &quot;run each process in separate thread&quot; or similar. checking that will keep IE from bringing down the rest of windoze most of the time.

 

[JellyBaby]

<< all you have to do is when you're in the start menu just right click &amp; select Sort by Name. >>

Budman,

Neat trick I didn't know about that. Too bad any new programs you install still aren't arranged alphabeticalyl -- you've got to do that everytime the programs list changes.

 

[MagnusInscitia]

Win98 is horrible with memmory management. I have 128mb and it still has an inordinate amount of load time when there are only a couple o' small apps running. Win98 seems to have a manifest destiny policy, if there is more ram then it wants more. Unless you force its arse out then it will claim every last bit it can get its grubby tentacles on.

 

[xodarap]

good complaints keep um coming any mac users around id like to hear their theories?

 

[cirrus1]

CTho9305 Thanks for the tip man

BTW: I also hate the buggy OS on my TI-83

BTW # 2: Just noticed that I've bumbed to the &quot;senior members&quot;. I'm beginning to feel old and sick

 

[timco]

Win 98SE:

1. Slow, even though I've got an 800Mhz Tbird running at 900Mhz.
2. Thrashes my hard drives too much.
3. Damn ugly: nasty little icons, amateur looking fonts (especially at low point sizes: it looks like someone drew them all in Paintbrush (or whatever it's called) on a 486 10 years ago).
4. Crashes too much.
5. Takes too long to startup.
6. Written by Microsoft.
7. Bloated.
8. No internalisation or localisation. I'm in the UK so why can't Windows give me UK English spelling (e.g. &quot;colour&quot.

Linux:

1. Even more thrashy than Windows.
2. Too many disparate distributions, most of which are 75% the same, with 25% of stupid incompatibilities (e.g. /etc/rc.d folder).
3. Deleting the /lib/libc.so.6 file trashes everything and nothing will work .
4. X Windows is antique - old technology.
5. KDE2 is bloated and too quirky and esoteric. Who needs to be able to embed a spreadsheet in a wordprocessor? Why are the toolbar toggle options in a &quot;Settings&quot; menu? Shouldn't they be in a &quot;View&quot; menu or something. There's no consistency between applications and some of the developers (well one in particular) have attitude problems.
6. Drivers. 'Nuff said.
7. Printing is a pile of s**t.
8. Dial-up internet sucks big time. One of my ISPs works fine, the other one now doesn't work.
9. GNOME is pig ugly.
10. KDE v Gnome v KDE v Gnome. Boring...
11. Lots of crashes, core dumps, files all over the place.

Can't think of any more...

 

[Priit]

Linux:

* only few new game titles avalible
* printing pretty much sucks
* umm... couldn't think out any more now

Windoze 9x/NT/2k

*BSOD's
*broken registry
*file system always corrputed
*programs can't be fully removed, nobody dares to remove their crap form windoze's system folder
*memory management fully sucks
*no functional CLI
*dog slow in some situations
*icons and stuff looks ugly
*every little configuration change needs restart
*network implemention is damn stupid
*no respectable security (viruses, Back Orifice, NetBus etc.)
*cost (not-OEM W2k costs as much as all my hardware)
*licence conditions (do what's you do, pay what's you pay, when BSA comes, you are still a pirate)
*compability between different versions
*bug fixes are very slow to appear
*M$ user support sucks
*only a few configuration options
*every (other in W2k/NT) program is able to take down entire system when crashes
*most of the error messages makes no sense

...

(too many to count here )

 

[IamDavid]

Mine has to be...


&quot;You must restart your computer for setting to take effect&quot;

WTF is that all about?

 

[MGMorden]

Timco, X-Windows is a MARVELOUS piece of technology that I hope never goes away. I even run an X-windows server when I'm in windows. Being able to bring up serpate windows/terminals from several unix systems and platforms all on one desktop, now that's wonderful.

 

[Priit]

100% agreed with MGMorden. I think it's wise to separate GUI from system core so that GUI's crash doesn't take all system along with it. But what the hell M$ does ? Mouse draiver is most important part of the kernel for them and if anything should happend with that... well, you all know what BSOD's and Illegal operation are, don't you

 

[misle]

I'm the computer support in an all Mac Publications Office.

- Okay, I originally thought Mac's didn't have many problems...They crash more than Windows Me.
- No such thing as multi-tasking on a Mac.
- Did I mention the cost of a Mac? These babies aren't cheap.
- Brain-dead OS, you have to &quot;rebuild the desktop&quot; for it to realize that you have new software.
- You have to buy a disk defrag program, yes Mac's do fragment, especially older Mac's.
- WTF is up with the One button Mouse?

There are only 2 good things about Mac's
- IE 5
- iTunes, THE best MP3 ripper and encoder!

 

[Workin']

Many many problems with every OS. Many many things right with every OS. But this made me laugh:

<< the file structure is retarded. mac os has the right idea. >>

Yeah, a 2-fork file structure is a brilliant idea. You can't copy Mac files to a non-Mac machine or send them via e-mail without destroying them (or &quot;stuffing&quot; them first). &quot;Resource fork&quot; and &quot;data fork&quot;, try it sometime.... And it's not even true anymore that apps get installed in their own folder. Garbage is strewn everywhere just like in Windows.

 

[Mem]

My only complaint is sometimes when you add New Hardware, Windows cannot find the drivers,even when you tell it where to look,so you`ve to point to the exact place,I guess Windows cannot read yet.

 

[MGMorden]

Well it looks like the Mac actually might become a kick-arse platform with OS X though. Not that it'll sell any better, but that fact that it has UNIX underneath just rocks.

 

[rosco6912]

i have to be honest... i'm a pc user who never used a mac before.. I've been using them lately @ school - work - etc, and i love the os that ships w/ the new imacs. its got all kinds of cool features. like how icons for pictures are icons of the picture. and how u can make a file name blank. other kinds of cool stuff, but i think the best B&amp;W os is still NT. whistler is gonna change things around here. most people will forget about linux. i mean - linux just doesn't have the ease of use. i'm no newb - i've been runnin linux servers for a while but cmon. its old and TEXT. the future is GUI - like it or not folx. in fact i think there needs to be a gui graphic standard implemeneted into all video cards, so that we can actually build an OS from the GUI up.
Imagine That.

IMHO

 

[thereaderrabbit]

I've always used MS, from DOS through Win2k. The OS keeps becoming more complex while'documentation' has fallen far behind.

-Reader

 

[FOBSIDE]

for mac os...

1. no long file names.
2. memory management: in mac you need a lot.