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* Inability to mount, burn, create or otherwise manipulate ISO or other disk images | * Inability to mount, burn, create or otherwise manipulate ISO or other disk images | ||
* Poor development tools. Full blown Visual Studio is expensive, only a stripped down ''Express'' version is available for free... Other platforms provide fully featured development environments that are far more versatile at no cost. | * Poor development tools. Full blown Visual Studio is expensive, only a stripped down ''Express'' version is available for free... Other platforms provide fully featured development environments that are far more versatile at no cost. | ||
* No low-level troubleshooting utilities, ie) where is a ''tcpdump'' equivalent? Do Window admins never need to analyze network traffic to demystify otherwise unexplainable behavior? Even basics like ''dig'' for verifying DNS data is completely absent. While we're in this vein of thought, even the ''telnet'' included in previous versions is not included in the default Vista install. Looks like they're moving backwards in this category. | * No low-level troubleshooting utilities, ie) where is a ''tcpdump'' equivalent? Do Window admins never need to analyze network traffic to demystify otherwise unexplainable behavior? Even basics like ''dig'' for verifying DNS data is completely absent. While we're in this vein of thought, even the ''telnet'' client included in previous versions is not included in the default Vista install. Looks like they're moving backwards in this category. | ||
=== Annoyances === | === Annoyances === | ||
Revision as of 04:44, 19 March 2008
Things to Hate About Windows
The following just scratches the surface of all the reasons I don't use Windows on a day to day basis. I'll keep adding more to it each time I'm forced to use Windows for something and get rudely reminded why I despise the platform. Yes, I need a life. To justify this entry I'll just keep telling myself that someday somebody somewhere will use this list in protest of some PHB's bright idea of replacing a FreeBSD installation with Microsoft's vile solutions.
Missing Functionality
- No Secure Shell (SSH) client or server in base system
- Although there is a CLI (cmd.exe) its complete lack of capabilities and sophistication renders it virtually useless
- Inability to mount, burn, create or otherwise manipulate ISO or other disk images
- Poor development tools. Full blown Visual Studio is expensive, only a stripped down Express version is available for free... Other platforms provide fully featured development environments that are far more versatile at no cost.
- No low-level troubleshooting utilities, ie) where is a tcpdump equivalent? Do Window admins never need to analyze network traffic to demystify otherwise unexplainable behavior? Even basics like dig for verifying DNS data is completely absent. While we're in this vein of thought, even the telnet client included in previous versions is not included in the default Vista install. Looks like they're moving backwards in this category.
Annoyances
- Hopelessly disorganized file system makes properly maintaining a Windows installation an exercise in futility
- Changing IPv4 settings while an Ethernet interface physically has a connection causes Windows to hang for several minutes while it pretends the task given to it is in some way complicated. (At least in XP, haven't confirmed this on Vista)
- Product Activation - Users of Windows are all filthy software pirates until proven otherwise, nice!
- The inner workings of the system are completely obscured from the end user with no option to make them visible. System hangs on boot? Just keep guessing what the problem is. No verbose booting is possible.