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Originally posted by Butterfingers:
I don't have a gripe per say with peecees. It's Windows I have a gripe with. Microsoft in general. I avoid it like the plague.
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I empathise. I really don't see eye to eye with the microsofties at all. Its the little things that really bug me. You're playing a game when all of a sudden you're brought back into windows just so you can view a little pop-up screen that says: "there are new windows updates ready to download". Aaarrgh.
After hours of configuring i finally made it so that it doesn't leave the game when ever the pop-ups appear.
Out of curiousity, i downloaded one of the updates (the one that reads CDs as soon as you put them in instead of having to go back into windows and 'my computer' and right click to eject the CD so it clears the memory) only to find that its changed the config files so that only half of my games will run. Aaarrgh.
I tried to uninstall the patch so i can get back to playing my games only to find that there is no option to uninstall. Aaarrgh. After nearly a day of organising save games into archives so that i can re-install all my games (9GB worth!) i was finally able to get back to playing them.
Then there's the games that simply refuse to work. I bought System Shock 2 about a year ago and to this day i don't know what it's like. I've never played it. It simply wont run. Got all the patches from interplay (think it was interplay) and it still wont go. Aaarrgh. Gave up after a couple of weeks.
Microsoft sucks. No two ways about it. Unfortunately (whether the endless money bags of MS or its supposed ease for programmers, i don't know) this trend is set to continue. 90% of developers create their games for Windows first. If you don't like it, too bad. You gotta wait 4-24 months for the game to be ported accross to Linux or Mac and even then only if they decide to bother. Yes Microsoft sucks, but their prominent standing in the PC market ensures their continued dominance. There's little you or i or anybody can do about it. Altogether now: Aaarrgh.