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It's 2013. Why the fuck is anyone still using Windows?
Also, for all its ills, Windows is not a bad platform for most lay users. Yes, of course we've all been bitten by it, but if all you need to do is normal office work, it's not bad.
Since starting to use Windows 8, I found that the grouping behavior of the taskbar combined with a dozen open PuTTY windows drove me insane. There's a multiple-tabbed PuTTY shell, but it was hard to get used to as well. I finally switched to the Chrome SSH client, which has been much better (though it doesn't have nearly the features of PuTTY, of course).
It's 2013. Why the fuck is anyone still using Windows?
Since starting to use Windows 8, I found that the grouping behavior of the taskbar combined with a dozen open PuTTY windows drove me insane. There's a multiple-tabbed PuTTY shell, but it was hard to get used to as well. I finally switched to the Chrome SSH client, which has been much better (though it doesn't have nearly the features of PuTTY, of course).
If you right-click the taskbar and select properties you can choose the grouping behavior from Always, When Full or Never. You can also change the size of the taskbar buttons to small if you don't prefer the default.
Also annoying is that your only options are 'combine, without text' and 'don't combine, with text'. Why is windows so fond of using one toggle where there should be multiple toggles?
Edit: Blergh, SVN.
It's 2013. Why the fuck is anyone still using Windows?
It's 2013. Why the fuck is anyone still using Windows?
I know this is a troll statement, but I feel Windows does a lot of things well. * For large organizations, domain controls make managing a large number of desktops much easier. * I feel MS Office on windows is a better product than the mac version (if you do a lot of document work). * Gaming. Windows is still dominant for desktop games. * Windows isn't the walled garden that Mac is going towards. * Backwards compatib…
Absolutely. I wonder if the MS Office for OSX team ever tried using it, or exchanging documents between Windows and OSX. The different epoch startdate in Excel on both platforms... bleurgh.
The crappiness of Office for Mac is 50% of the reason I have a VMWare Windows box (the other 50%? Testing websites on IE9)
It's 2013. Why the fuck is anyone still using Windows?
IMHO - it has the best windowing system. Trivial perhaps, but it's the one huge thing that continuously bothers me about Ubuntu and OSX.
Since starting to use Windows 8, I found that the grouping behavior of the taskbar combined with a dozen open PuTTY windows drove me insane. There's a multiple-tabbed PuTTY shell, but it was hard to get used to as well. I finally switched to the Chrome SSH client, which has been much better (though it doesn't have nearly the features of PuTTY, of course).
It's $99, but I've easily saved 1000x that amount by being able to quickly script shell interactions that don't easily lend themselves to the regular scripting tools like 'expect'.
I think the best example was where a distributed cache cluster was dirtied during a deployment. Dumping the entire 100TB+ of good data was not an option, it would have taken days to warm back up. The cache admin tool had a menu system and wouldn't buffer input, so I couldn't just dump a buffer of commands into it and wait for it to finish.
I was able to lookup recently accessed DB rows in SSH tab #1, compare them to the cache in tab #2, and invalidate in another in tab #3. Problem solved in <20 minutes. We eventually built an app to invalidate dirty cached results, but that took about a week to do it the right way.