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I like Windows XP, most stable version of Windows currently, and compatible. Linux however I can give a few bad points of it to help you on this arguement.
1. Linux used to (not sure about now) forced you to have partitions on your drive, I prefer only 1 or 2 partitions not more than that. It gets confusing and you run out of space quick if you dont know how to set it up properly and balanced. Sure you can get away with partitioning on a 100 Gb Hard Drive. But anything less than that will make Linux run out of hard drive space quickly. I had Red Hat Liniux and switch back to XP for that reason and many others. Linux would have over 5 or 5 partitions on your drive, one for the OS, one for your backups, 1 for your files, one for your bootup, one for your drivers, and so on.... it was scary, and I thought I might mess up my hard drive formatting it and reinstalling Windows.
2. Linux at the time of me having it, had no compatibility with games I had, only a few... It was also made out to be complicated, I had to use commands like in DOS to do stuff and setup stuff, worse than I do in Windows. If I wanted to type commands all day I would just stick to DOS rather than Windows. And the only way they was compatible is if you downloaded the "Linux" version of it.
3. Drivers was another Issue, you have to have pre-downloaded all your drivers for Linux version. When I first installed Linux I did not know this, I figured it would of been smarter than that... which proved another point, Linux is not always WYSIWYG. Now I am sure Linux has changed to fix this issue, but back when I instaled Red Hat... it was a pain. At least Windows XP came with all the drivers you needed and generics, so I could get online instantly. Since I did not have any 56k modem drivers when I installed Linux, I could not go online and download other drivers I needed for Linux to run properly.
4. Linux has some strange games, like kill bill gates, or the Linux and Windows battle thing. They was not that fun, I maybe played them for 5 mins then got tired of them that quickly.
5. If you unintall Linux from your Hard Drive, and try to install Windows again it can and has damaged hard drives. I seen it, and my Dad was surprised I could even format it and still make 1 partition and install Windows again. He has had many customers who Hard drives failed when doing this! BTW, after a year my HD did fail, but I figured it might of been conincendent.
6. I was used to Windows more than Linux anyways! Why fix something that was not broken? I am sorry guys, but alot of people who hate Windows just dont have enough experience of Windows, same with Linux, if you hate Linux in most but not all cases you are not experienced with it. But still, I started with Windows 3.11 If you think XP is bad, try to run Windows 3.11 better yet DOS... then come back, you will be happier trust me!
1. Linux used to (not sure about now) forced you to have partitions on your drive, I prefer only 1 or 2 partitions not more than that. It gets confusing and you run out of space quick if you dont know how to set it up properly and balanced. Sure you can get away with partitioning on a 100 Gb Hard Drive. But anything less than that will make Linux run out of hard drive space quickly. I had Red Hat Liniux and switch back to XP for that reason and many others. Linux would have over 5 or 5 partitions on your drive, one for the OS, one for your backups, 1 for your files, one for your bootup, one for your drivers, and so on.... it was scary, and I thought I might mess up my hard drive formatting it and reinstalling Windows.
2. Linux at the time of me having it, had no compatibility with games I had, only a few... It was also made out to be complicated, I had to use commands like in DOS to do stuff and setup stuff, worse than I do in Windows. If I wanted to type commands all day I would just stick to DOS rather than Windows. And the only way they was compatible is if you downloaded the "Linux" version of it.
3. Drivers was another Issue, you have to have pre-downloaded all your drivers for Linux version. When I first installed Linux I did not know this, I figured it would of been smarter than that... which proved another point, Linux is not always WYSIWYG. Now I am sure Linux has changed to fix this issue, but back when I instaled Red Hat... it was a pain. At least Windows XP came with all the drivers you needed and generics, so I could get online instantly. Since I did not have any 56k modem drivers when I installed Linux, I could not go online and download other drivers I needed for Linux to run properly.
4. Linux has some strange games, like kill bill gates, or the Linux and Windows battle thing. They was not that fun, I maybe played them for 5 mins then got tired of them that quickly.
5. If you unintall Linux from your Hard Drive, and try to install Windows again it can and has damaged hard drives. I seen it, and my Dad was surprised I could even format it and still make 1 partition and install Windows again. He has had many customers who Hard drives failed when doing this! BTW, after a year my HD did fail, but I figured it might of been conincendent.
6. I was used to Windows more than Linux anyways! Why fix something that was not broken? I am sorry guys, but alot of people who hate Windows just dont have enough experience of Windows, same with Linux, if you hate Linux in most but not all cases you are not experienced with it. But still, I started with Windows 3.11 If you think XP is bad, try to run Windows 3.11 better yet DOS... then come back, you will be happier trust me!
