Windows Or OSX?

[bloodline]

Star69 wrote:

bloodline wrote:
I would like to add, One thing I hate, detest, wouldn't even shake a sock at about windows is the "Registry"... I just don't get the point!

the bane of windows.

Exactly, I will defend Windows (the NT derivatives at least) as it has a hard job to do and it does it well... but why on earth they couldn't have come up with something better than "The Registry" I'll never know.

[adolescent]

bloodline wrote:
I would like to add, One thing I hate, detest, wouldn't even shake a sock at about windows is the "Registry"... I just don't get the point!

Better to have one place for settings than several hundred possibly incompatible configuration files.  Since it's built into the SDK it's easy to work with also.  (Probably not so apparant to the end user, but that's the point of modern OSs to hide the complexity and let the user keep working...)

It sure beats the heck out of the old SYSTEM.INI, WIN.INI, etc. files.

[dbalaski]

I must say -- Hard comparision--
Though I do like OSX a lot (its basically FreeBDS and Nextstep  put together with MacOS ).
I find both  XP and OSX very stable -- though I will give OSX a nudge ahead with all the nicities built into it.


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[HopperJF]

bloodline wrote:

Turn that around to Windows and I know exactly how you feel! To be honest I dislike the idea of rebooting the OS every time you change a frigging simple setting.. which is why OSX hardly ever needs to be rebooted :-)

Be careful when comparing MacOS and Windows. In the above statement it looks like you've tried to compare MacOS X with Windows98... now it would be equally unfair to compare MacOS 9 with WindowsXP :-)

No I am talking about XP.
If it was OS9 against 98 then I would vote for Windows 98.  :-)

[HopperJF]

dbalaski wrote:
I must say -- Hard comparision--
Though I do like OSX a lot (its basically FreeBDS and Nextstep  put together with MacOS ).
I find both  XP and OSX very stable -- though I will give OSX a nudge ahead with all the nicities built into it.


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Good choice!
By the way guys, if you haven't guessed yet I am a Mac zealot  :-D

[HopperJF]

I don't think I've spotted any people praising Linux yet?  :-?

[mr_a500]

It sure beats the heck out of the old SYSTEM.INI, WIN.INI, etc. files.

Think so, do you? Well after having had a corrupt registry at least 5 times (back when I was forced to use NT at work), I must say I can't agree. I'd rather have a corrupt ini file that I can easily replace or edit with a text editor, than have to totally reinstall Windows and all programs. (maybe things have improved with XP - I don't know)

When I want to make settings changes, I'd rather edit a small ini text file than have to open and search a convoluted 20+ Meg monster. Also many many programs do not remove registry entries when uninstalling, leaving loads of crap that slows down the system.

It's a fatal logic error that the most critical file on the system is also the most accessed and therefore the most likely to become corrupted.