What I can take away from the collective thoughts above is this:
effort spent trying to make windows better is generally wasted, and
contributes to the problem of the proliferation of shitty software. I
agree with this.
> As for "normal users" they need a good kick in a nuts to wake up and learn t
On Apr 11, 2013 5:04 PM, "Strake" wrote:
>
> On 11/04/2013, Max DeLiso wrote:
> > I completely agree that Windows is a legacy OS, but plenty of people are
> > still forced to use it for many legitimate reasons.
>
> Forced? How? At knifepoint?
Lock-in.
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Joseph Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Max DeLiso wrote:
>> A) That's stupid
>> B) Therefore OP must be stupid.
>
> I don't think you're stupid, because the few times I've had to use
> cmd.exe, I've
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Nick wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:45:48PM -0400, Jacob Todd wrote:
>> Kill yourself.
>
> Please can we try not to be needlessly dramatic and unpleasant here?
>
seconding this! It's juvenile and counterproductive.
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:46 PM, wrote:
>> The web is the future of computing, that much is evident.
>
> The web is not even the present of computing. Most humans
> access the Internet using custom clients ("apps") on mobile
> devices.
Really depends how you define web doesn't it? If by web you
On Apr 11, 2013 11:54 AM, "Christoph Lohmann" <2...@r-36.net> wrote:
>
> Greetings.
>
> On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:48:11 +0200 Max DeLiso wrote:
> > I know what you're probably thinking.
> >
> > A) That's stupid
>
> Windows is the reaso
On Apr 11, 2013 11:23 AM, "Martti Kühne" wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Max DeLiso wrote:
> >
> > Well it does add an extra layer of abstraction which could be a source
of
> > bugs. Also that would make contributing significantly more di
On Apr 11, 2013 11:05 AM, "Martti Kühne" wrote:
>
> What are you writing C++ code if you could use Xming or even cygwin to
> just compile the actual st on windows?
Well it does add an extra layer of abstraction which could be a source of
bugs. Also that would make contributing significantly more
I know what you're probably thinking.
A) That's stupid
B) Therefore OP must be stupid.
But wait for just one second!
The state of the command prompt on windows is a mess. There are several
massive, tangled, bug-ridden, and crufty subsystems which must interact in
multiple ways in order to make i
