Worst Windows command ever

SuAside said:
fucking hell, yes windows is fucking buggy and often badly designed, but most of what you're saying here IS YOUR OWN STUPID GODDAMN FAULT. you goddamned whiny bitches...
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It's quite obvious that windows is designed to be sold to the masses. It's mostly well designed, but sometimes very badly designed. All designers must face this. It's very natural. Never blame the user. It's bad design.

fuck, time to quote Richard Cook again: Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.
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The programmers are obviously not designing towards the end user then. Their fault.
 
never programmed a single program in your entire life, have you monsharen? if you were into IT yourself, you wouldn't say those things. in theory, that's all nice, but in practise it's nearly impossible to make ANYTHING totally idiotproof. hell, we barely succeed in making something bugfree.
 
Overseer is right, Windows is more than idiot proof. It's also patience proof for anyone who knows what the hell theyre doing or really wants to alter anything.

Its contrary diversity and customization.
An operating system, of all things, should be something with a seemingly endless amount of potential modifications.

This is not the case with windows, it resists any attempt by the end user to be altered at all. It CAN be altered, but it is such a tremnendous pain that it is almost completely unworth it.

Really though, aside from software compatibility (which is not due to their design, but simply due to their market share), and idiot proofing (only useful for idiots), what is ONE thing that windows that no other operating system does?
 
SuAside said:
never programmed a single program in your entire life, have you monsharen?
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I'm working on my master thesis in system analysis and design so I have had a few chances to try it out.

in theory, that's all nice, but in practise it's nearly impossible to make ANYTHING totally idiotproof. hell, we barely succeed in making something bugfree.
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This is true. It's just that I take it very seriously when someone blames the user for bad behavior. In the perfect environment the user can't go wrong. Of course this is an utopia, I'm fully aware of that. But you can't really defend the creator with those arguments. It's just a fact we have to be aware of and respect. Don't call the user dumb.
 
monsharen said:
I'm working on my master thesis in system analysis and design so I have had a few chances to try it out.
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well, then you had a go at it but probably never worked in a professional environment and real end users?

monsharen said:
It's just that I take it very seriously when someone blames the user for bad behavior.
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but in this case, it's more due to a badly educated user or simple clumsyness (and unwillingness to fess up to that)...
he simply misused a feature.
monsharen said:
It's just a fact we have to be aware of and respect. Don't call the user dumb.
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haha, wait until you're in the professional life dude. or start reading sites such as userfriendly.org. most of the jokes about users are things that actually happen in the real world.

it's nice of you to be so correct and just, but that aint gonna last. (or you'll just burn out and spend years in a mental institution)
 
Depends on what market, end-users, servers, third world countries, companies, or all combined?

because all combined, I think its more like 70%, with apple in second place for end users, and *nix in a tiny share of end users and a large share of servers.

but despite that, that isnt really something it DOES. Not in the sense of a verb.
 
Last I checked, "to own" is a verb.

That said, this thread is dangerously approaching Planet Pointless. Are you going to bitch about Windows or Babs' inability to copy-paste stuff?
 
It started out as kind of a question about how to turn that feature off, but it's become an interesting discussion about Windows alternatives, something I would very much like to know about, without having to tread into arrogant nerd-heavy Linux forums.
 
It started out as kind of a question about how to turn that feature off, but it's become an interesting discussion about Windows alternatives, something I would very much like to know about, without having to tread into arrogant nerd-heavy Linux forums.
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when i couldn't take it anymore i installed Ubuntu, without knowing much about Linux. I just read some entries on wikipedia and decided to install ubuntu in parallel with windows. After i reinstalled windows on the other drive, i couldn't boot in ubuntu no more. I still can't. So i have 14 Gb of unused ubuntu on my hd and no idea on how to access it. Took me 3 to 4 days to install all the components in ubuntu (again, i had no help, so i just looked through some forums), finally i got tired to search endlessly for documentation on various programs. I still miss that operating system because it worked just fine. It was just really annoying sometimes.
 
The Overseer said:
It started out as kind of a question about how to turn that feature off, but it's become an interesting discussion about Windows alternatives
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We can also start sharing awesome keyboard shortcut discoveries, like "windows button + D"

... changed my life.
 
Alright, I'll stop. Peace.

KQX said:
We can also start sharing awesome keyboard shortcut discoveries, like "windows button + D"

... changed my life.
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That command is one of the better ones. Totally agree. How long did it take you to discover it? It took me several years (was it present in 95/98?). It could classify as one of the worst marketed commands in that case.
 
Blakut said:
It started out as kind of a question about how to turn that feature off, but it's become an interesting discussion about Windows alternatives, something I would very much like to know about, without having to tread into arrogant nerd-heavy Linux forums.
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when i couldn't take it anymore i installed Ubuntu, without knowing much about Linux. I just read some entries on wikipedia and decided to install ubuntu in parallel with windows. After i reinstalled windows on the other drive, i couldn't boot in ubuntu no more. I still can't. So i have 14 Gb of unused ubuntu on my hd and no idea on how to access it. Took me 3 to 4 days to install all the components in ubuntu (again, i had no help, so i just looked through some forums), finally i got tired to search endlessly for documentation on various programs. I still miss that operating system because it worked just fine. It was just really annoying sometimes.
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Did you have the settings to dual boot?
You have to change some boot settings for it to work :P
Ubuntus site explains how.
 
Did you have the settings to dual boot?
You have to change some boot settings for it to work Razz
Ubuntus site explains how.
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Yes, it was, but after i reinstalled windows, windows took over my computer again, cancelling dual boot. I guess i need an ubuntu bootable CD.
 
xdarkyrex said:
Thats because the partition is more than likely NTSC, while Windows can only view FAT file systems (while on the other hand, Ubuntu views both NTSC, FAT, and other file structures.
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Hold it! You mean NTFS (NTSC is the evil brother of gay format PAL). But windows reads NTFS. It was the standard format for Windows NT.* So I think later versions than say, win 2000, should be able to read and write NTFS.

But, there's a slight chance that he has a Linux formatted partition which windows cannot read. Like ext2 (that's linux right?)

*If I remember it correctly.
 
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