11 Jan
2012
11 Jan
'12
1:43 p.m.
[T]he very people who bad-mouth Windows, Yahoo etc.
the most also
brag the loudest that they would not stoop to using it; therefore
they obviously have no relevant experience [and are thus unqualified
to hold such opinions]
Speaking personally, I wouldn't go near webmail for reasons that have
nothing to do with the user interface, and more reasons that have
little to do with it. But I also wouldn't use anything that imposes an
interface anything like what I've seen over the shoulders of friends
and cow-orkers and acquaintances who do; actually trying to use it
myself is not necessary, given the list of things, obvious on even the
sort of cursory inspection I can carry out under such circumstances,
which I would find somewhere between unpleasant and intolerable.
As for Windows itself? Again, many of the reasons behind my remark
upthread that Windows is "a horrible, horrible OS" for my purposes are
things that do not need experience to back them, at least not
experience with Windows in particular. As for the ones that do, well,
I once spent a month working as a Windows sysadmin (I was curious and
figured I could at least tolerate it for a month; I was right, barely).
It was in the NT 4 days, but, again based on what I've seen over
others' shoulders and heard others complaining about, I have reason to
think the essential-to-me problems remain unalleviated, in some cases
perhaps even exacerbated.
But if a business' Windows system really needed
rebooting every day I
suspect their IT person would very shortly be looking for another
job.
I work at, among other places, an ISP. An ISP which offers hosting
services. Hosting services on, at least, Windows, Linux, and NetBSD.
I personally don't deal with any of them much, and the Windows not at
all, but I interact regularly with people who do. Based on what I've
heard from them, I would say that, while your remark may be correct as
worded, the sysadmin load required to achieve that level of reliability
is significantly higher for Windows than for either Linux or NetBSD.
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