The *idea* of a registry seems to be OK, but in WinDoze, it is a veritable garbage can. I think that each program should have its own *findable* (and readable) registry in the same directory that the program is stored. That might make it easier to !totally! remove a program...
Perhaps, linux doesn't make the fastest desktop computers run like shit.
Maybe with 10ghz of cpu and 20GB of ram vista might run OK, but otherwise it's a steaming mountain of pig shit.
And adobe's latest reader runs just fine under linux on my 1.4 ghz laptop with a typical 5200rpm laptop drive. If MS wrote it, you could count on it being unable to run on such hardware.
A $250 computer from 5 years ago will run extremely well w/ linux where vista won't run at all.
Who WANTS to run Vista on a five year old computer?
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Consider that Adobe needs 100MB hard disk space for just a reader, where others can produce a PDF reader that takes less than 1 MB and starts at least 10x faster, and you still believe Adobe is producing efficient software?
Ever tried Lotus Notes, or CM Synergy (nowadays both IBM), or Borland C++ Builder and still believe Microsoft is the only company that produces crap software.
And sometimes you can't get Linux to install at all, or only without wireless, ACPI...etc.
Your hate towards Microsoft has apparently blinded you. I don't like Microsoft, or their products, but the fact is most software companies produce utter crap (especially the bigger ones), and some manage to produce even worse crap than Microsoft. And let's face it Windows sucks, Linux sucks, they only suck in different ways. Choose your poison.
The ironic thing is Microsoft wrote part of the firmware for the Commodore 128.
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They're not necessarily mutually exclusive- anyone remember Lynx? Gopher?
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Percentage wise even a larger part of the Commodore 64 firmware was written by Microsoft. I don't recall a Commodore 64 that couldn't run Commodore 64 software. The Commodore 128 did run Commodore 64 software pretty well too.
Go downtown with a guitar and a bucket. Maybe somebody will toss you the penny that 100MB costs. Actually, you'll have 2/3rds of the penny left to buy another 200MB.
Newsflash: files on a hard drive do not every one of them get loaded for an application to function. Stuff like help files, drm-shit, infrequently used functions just sit on the hard drive until the user needs them.
Adobe reader runs fine and fast on a 1.4mhz laptop.
Are you still using a 200mhz P1 as your main desktop?
That must be really old. I thought my 4.77 MHz T1000 was slow.
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