Thread: Windows

No seriosuly, fuck you Microsoft, hire some fucking UI designers that have an idea of what the fuck is going on.


So im typing away on a post, about windows failing ive seen windows piss update icon in my taskbar but I have ignored it while composing a post. So suddenly, i see a flash while typing, then suddenly my computers rebooting to fucking update...

Jesus, no seriously. What-the-fuck. I can already tell you whats happened, during the fraction of a second that stupid "do you want to reboot to update message" has been on my screen, ive already hit the key that correlates to yes and hit enter. It happened so fast that i couldnt even react untill all my windows had been closed and the "we fail and have to reboot every time we update" is on my screen.

FUCK, YOU (seeing the "your comp has been successfully updated, rubbing it in" message at this very moment too.)


SO... let me start on some of my biggest windows pet peves:

1. Revaluating Drive Partitions
   
   1. My all time favorite. Due to the method that windows (xp, vista, w7) id's your partitions. Any time you enlarge the size of a partition, windows will re-evaluate drive partition letters. By that i mean, all your drive letters shift. If you have 3 drives: C, D, E. they become F,G,H. Then windows will fail to boot, for the obvious reason of not being able to locate the partition with windows files on it (because it renamed it!).
   2. This of course only happens if you enlarge a partition outside of windows and boot back into it... but still, stop failing...
   
   
2. Kernel Update
   
   1. First before i go into this, let me explain that i do not have professional experience on this, only my professional opinion and hypothesis.
   2. Let me first review a technological, fundamental principle: "You cannot write to a file that you are executing". It makes sense, doing so would introduce instant instability. Now, lets examine how windows and Linux perform kernel updates.
   3. First, your kernel is like your car's engine, its everything, always running, so you can never write to it. So how do you update your kernel ?
   4. Well Linux (the smart guy) says..."Ill dedicate this folder ____ to storing my kernels, they will have unique incrimental names so I will never have to worry about updating my kernel and failing mid way, because when i update, i merely put the newer kernel in the same folder with a incremental name (ex kernel-2.26, update to kernel-2.27)". Linux never worries about removing the old kernel, it simply downloads the newer kernel to that boot folder while your in your GUI session, then writes to a few config files relating to booting, telling them next time you boot to read from the newer kernel instead of the older And it only does this after it has successfully written the newer kernel file. This works pretty darn well, it has a few fall backs (recompiling drivers for kernel version) but they are small in comparison to window's method failbacks. For example, if you were to crash in the middle of linux writing your newer kernel, big deal, your boot configs still all point to the older kernel (which is still there running fine). SO you boot perfectly fine to give the kernel update another go.
   5. Windows now, handles this completely different. It stats "this file, and this file ONLY will be my kernel". Well, this introduces a problem, how do you update a file you are always executing? Well windows makes another kernel just for this purpose. You see it run sometimes when you are at the windows logon or logoff screen seeing the "you computer is updating, dont for the love of god turn off your computer". What this is, is a separate kernel, over-writing your main SINGLE kernel file, with the newer version, the only problem is that if something should happen during this time, your fucked. No really your FUCKED, no redundancy.
   
   
3. Update Reminders
   
   1. XP and especially Vista/W7, have these annoying fucking update messages. I dig the auto dl'ing update, MAYBE even installing critical ones. I DO NOT dig the reboot messages that if you do not catch will reboot your computer for you (because if you are using windows you must be to stupid to make he choice of rebooting for your self). I love it, cant tell you how many times ive left my computer compiling, only to return to find out that windows decided to reboot its self for an worthless fucking update (usually relating to a patch for IE fail of lfie browser). Seriously. Xp doesnt do this, though instead it pops up a fucking stupid message every x minutes regardless of what you are doing asking you to reboot every 14 minutes. And of course there isnt a Fuck off choice, just a few hours giving time to let your guard down. Hey mcfail, heres a solution? Display the message once, if i hit "fuck off, im not rebooting" FUCK OFF. I'll have to reboot some time! Update then! Until then, FUCK OFF! These stupid auto reboots will close out of any work you have open, regardless of if its saved or not all for the sake of some stupid fucking IE update that microsoft deemed critical.
   
   
4. Shutdown/reboot film
   
   1. Speaking of saved work, this has got to be the dumbest thing ive ever seen. The black film that vista and w7 put over your screen when you are in the process of shutting down (to reboot). Having any app up that pops up a save dialog when closing in combination with this stupid film results in you being unable to respond to the dialog... because the fucking film is over your screen, you cannot alt-tab to the app you cannot access task manager, you cannot alt-f4, you are fucked. Windows laughs at your predicament, recording your expression of aggravation via your webcam, streaming it to microsofts HQ, displaying it on their lawlcast videostream, so all there employees who are spending the money they suckered you into spending for this POS, can laugh at your misery.
   
   
5. Vista/W7 reboot/shutdown question
   
   1. Whats the point of that stupid message that asks you "are you sure you want to reboot/poweroff?" By the time i see it, everything's already shut off. Clicking cancel only stops the killsig. It does not restore all the process's that it shut down... Plus, the message disappears damn quick, so i rarely even get the chance to respond...
   
   
6. failure to work, comparison to linux
   
   1. No seriously, why cant windows just work? Ive got a single, SAME install of ubuntu thats gone through what... 3 computers (current is 7 years old, just to give you an idea). And it still works. FLAWLESSLY. Never had to reinstall it once. Now windows on the other hand, doesnt seem to make it past a month for me without reinstalling, and it only ever happens at the most critical times when (god forbid) i am depending on it.
   
   
7. Reaction to critical errors, and inability to solve them with os
   
   1. Anytime window encounter's an error, it curls up into a little ball and cries, usually crashing (BSOD) and the majority of the time, you cannot solve the problem with the os. Meaning you have to use some third party tool (ex windows recovery console) to fix it and coax it back out. You can not solve jack using the same os installation. Now linux on the other hand, handles errors like a camp. I am almost always guaranteed CLI, and i get real fucking helpful error messages too like "i cant read the damn hdd bitch" or "such and such driver failed". Unlike windows "something failed, please contact the system administrator" I AM THE SYSTEM ADMIN, WTF IS WRONG WINDOWS TELL ME FUCKER! Or BSOD, which you have to write down the hex and go google (which pulls someone thats debuged the mem dump) or you debug through the mem dump to find what went wrong, GOD FOR BID WINDOWS WRITE THIS TO THE BSOD INSTEAD?!! Anyways, if i get an error in linux, i solve it with that same damn os install. Unlike with windows, whos majority of problems i usually end up HAVING to solve in linux...
   
   

Now why God does not smite the microsoft HQ right on the spot is beyond me. He must have something truely diabolical planned, otherwise there is no justice.


If the world used linux instead, oh god... what a great place his would be.

That's a huge rant Bun-Bun.. sorry Windows can't meet your needs in all seriousness

I really wonder who designs it sometimes.... For crying out loud do I really have to have separate links in W7 to go to screen resolution etc? Why cant it be like all other windows OS's and have TABS! Not have to exit out and switch between weird names... Microsoft just genuinely fails most of the time...

Not to oversimplify the solution but... Do what I do. Turn off automatic updates and do it manually every week. Computer will never reboot itself as you describe and mo update is so important it can't wait a couple days.

Originally Posted by Rumble

Not to oversimplify the solution but... Do what I do. Turn off automatic updates and do it manually every week. Computer will never reboot itself as you describe and mo update is so important it can't wait a couple days.

This is probably the easiest solution. Some of the things you've talked about are reasons why I will never go beyond XP. Screw Vista and 7.

Though, I have thought about going to Unbuntu. It's a nice looking OS. Being a Linux noob, however, I'm not well read on software/hardware compatibility so I'm hesitant on going to it.

Yeah, I hate when I'm watching porn and my PC restarts...I mean...doing homework...


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