Windows is buggy and slow lets buy a Mac

[ElPolloDiabl]

When Windows 95 came out, it's strong selling points were plug and play and ease of use. It impressed gamers because you didn't have to fiddle with DOS anymore.
Microsoft has gone daft, putting in more and more bloat. The OS is more of a whiz bang application than an operating system. The fact that you automatically buy Windows with any name brand PC or laptop means M$ can sit back and contentedly rake in money. That automatic bundling is really bad for non-sheeple consumers.

Gamers will simply abandon the Wintel PC and they have been. That is a fairly big chunk of business.
I can see innovation has ground to a halt, ty M$.

[ElPolloDiabl]

I'm not a diehard Macfan the title was meant to be a hypothetical discussion from Joe User. Also since XP, Windows was a lot less buggy.

It was nice to see a cross section of views. I notice Amiga seemed to get unanimous praise. An OS is one of those things that everyone has their own ideas on what is 'ultimate.' You seem to agree that an OS should be flexible then and allow the user to tinker with it.

I don't like an OS that thinks i'm intellectually impaired and can't be trusted to turn some resource hogging features off. If you wonder why the OS needs a 2ghz+ CPU to be responsive it's because of all the background 'features' running.

If someone can explain to me why Windows needs all those gigabytes of hard drive space I might calm down.

[ElPolloDiabl]

A console is another piece of Windows bloat to add to your PC.:roflmao:

I can see the worth of a console in multiplayer arcade games, but for more complex FPS it feels like your handicapped.

It only reaffirms what I think, Windows has driven gamers off of the PC.

[ElPolloDiabl]

I sold my laptop which came with Vista pre-installed and wouldn't install XP pro. I'm now using an Athlon X2 tower with XP Pro and Ubuntu. XP uses a mealy 1% of CPU time compared to 5% or more on Vista.
Even though the laptop had 4GB of memory Vista would need to be rebooted because of "memory is running low".
My XP tower only has 2GB and can run a Mac emulation, an Amiga emulation play a movie and have several browser windows open without a single complaint.

[ElPolloDiabl]

Windows 7 added hardware acceleration to the gui. I don't think Mac has.

[ElPolloDiabl]

The idea of an OS has changed to automate more and more functions. The problem is that Windows assumes you want certain functions automated and 'disappears' everything thing else. I haven't used OS X so I can't comment on that.
Maybe because it is based on NT nobody at Microsoft has thought of making it user friendly to alter the base configuration.
What's the deal with a minimum virtual memory? I didn't install 4GB of RAM so I could hear the hard driving ticking away with god knows what.