Windows sucks

[figmo]

I had to say it. This isn't a "religious" thing; it's a post from someone who is frustrated at all the crap she has to run to keep her system from getting invaded by stuff.

People keep saying Macs are more expensive, but when you add the maintenance costs to the Windows boxes and note that the Mac will be useful for a longer period of time, Macs turn out to be cheaper.

I just wish Adobe would effing port FrameMaker to MacOSX or Linux so I wouldn't have to run Windows at all.

I now go back to making my systems usable so I can get back to work. :-(

Comments

[justeps.livejournal.com]

1. Yes, Windows Sucks. Nothing to see here, move along.
2. There are a lot of things that can make a laptop run slower than it "should," even in the best of circumstances. Some of it has to do with power management, some of it has to do with thermal protection. You might be able to configure some of this.
3. A dual-core CPU isn't twice as fast as a single core.
4. I too am sticking with Firefox 2.x until the bitter end. Firefox 2.0.0.19 and 3.0.5 are out now, BTW.
5. The one thing I've found that makes Firefox not hang when accessing "particular sites" is ... (drum roll, please) ... FlashBlock. Yep, it turned out all the badness I was experiencing was really Adobe's fault.
6. I don't know why people like to push products that cost money (e.g. Parallels, VMware Fusion) when free alternatives (e.g. VirtualBox) might work just as well.
7. No, you can't run Boot Camp, Crossover, Fusion, Parallels, or VirtualBox on a PowerPC-based Macintosh. There are Intel emulators (e.g. Q, based on QEMU), but they're v-e-r-y s-l-o-w.
8. The Windows version of FrameMaker 7.2 has a "Platinum" compatibility rating with Wine, meaning that it works perfectly on Linux. The Windows version of FrameMaker 8 currently has a compatibility rating of "Garbage," meaning that it doesn't work at all. Comments suggest Adobe doesn't care if FM 8 for Windows works with anything other than Vista.
9. You'd think there'd be a market for FrameMaker for OpenSolaris running on Intel processors.
10. I'm hoping that, one day, a free, open-source Page Layout application like Scribus will be able to replace the proprietary Adobe product you're currently using.
11. Repeat the above for Gimp, Inkscape, etc.

[figmo.livejournal.com]

How do I do this FlashBlock? Enquiring minds want to know!

griffen found an emulator that runs on PowerPC Macs, but I haven't put the time into getting it to work.

As for FrameMaker 8, it does work on Windows XP.

I wish Adobe would do what Oracle does for its ports where it doesn't feel like putting the effort into porting onto a processor but the vendor of the processor wants Oracle on it: Let the vendor seat some employees and/or contractors on site at Oracle and do the porting themselves. Data General has been doing that for years. I wish Adobe and Apple would do something similar.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

flashblock is a firefox extension. get it here: http://flashblock.mozdev.org/