On Wed, February 1, 2012 6:36 am, Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: >> >> On Tue, January 31, 2012 6:30 pm, Walter Dnes wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:05:12PM +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote >>>>> Sweet. I had 15 minutes in the office "how long before someone makes >>>>> a >>>> pointless, unrelated Windows insult out of my post" pool; I just won >>>> $5. >>>> >>>> I was using Win3.1 - and was happy with it >>>> I was using Win95 - and was happy with it >>>> I was using WinNT4 - and was happy with it >>>> I was using Win2000 - and was happy with it >>>> I was using Win Server 2003 - and was happy with it >>>> I was using Win7 - and was happy with it >>>> >>>> And I am also a Linux SuSe user since 6.0 and Gentoo user since >>>> 1.something (but up until now just on the servers). >>>> >>>> I made the final switch from Windows to Linux on my Workstation >>>> (Gentoo) >>>> and Notebook (Lubuntu) only a few month ago. >>>> >>>> So please, don't accuse me of making Windows insults. >>> >>> I feel that Win98SE was the best Windows ever, and could've been even >>> more of a killer if Microsoft hadn't so stupidly tried to ram ActiveX >>> down people's throats. Remove ActiveX, and 99% of "drive-by-downloads" >>> would've disappeared. WinME was a sad joke, however. >> >> I enjoyed MS Dos, then played a bit with MS Win3.11, MS Win95 and MS >> Win98SE. >> However, for important stuff, like day-to-day desktop, I switched to >> Linux >> in 1997. That was the last time I lost files due to a crash of MS >> Windows... >> >> -- >> Joost >> >> >> > > > When 3.1 came out, I changed jobs. Swapping 15 floppies is no fun to > me. Funny, reinstalling fixed the problems back then and it still is > the best way to fix windoze.
You should've tried installing MS Office back then... 45 (Or there-abouts) floppies and the installer asking for them in a random order. With some of those being asked several times... The guy asking for it paid a lot for it, so it wasn't too bad. ;) -- Joost
