An operating system should never question the users actions unless those actions are potentially destructive. Windows fails at this. Also, I when I try to run an installer, I shouldn’t have to look around for a dialogue box, it should come to my attention if it’s important. I shouldn’t get errors that aren’t in plain english and that have not suggestions as to how to solve the problem (I experienced this several times).
The biggest problems with windows, other than the fact that it’s horribly ugly and uses processing power to make it look uglier, is that it never tells you what’s going on and it wants too do too much automatically. On the first issue, when I was installing, it gave me no accurate indication of how far along it was. Please, give me a damn progress bar. Besides that, when something would not work, it wouldn’t tell me, leaving me waiting for 10 minutes to see if something was going to happen. In OS X, when I start an application and there is an issue, I can at least see that it is trying to start the app, and if it fails, it tells me, and it might even tell me why.
Now as far as doing things automatically is concerned, I think it’s cool that it will set up my wireless network for me, or that it will find me an antivirus software, but it doesn’t have to bug me about these things every 3 minutes. If I want to do something, I will do it. I literally said, “Leave me alone,” to my computer… out loud. It’s like it has it’s own fucking agenda. The worse it when it offers to do something for you and then it fails and then it doesn’t tell you how to fix the problem.
I think the best way to describe windows is to say it’s like my grandmother: it’s old, it has weird design taste, and it asks me a million useless questions that stop me from doing whatever I’m trying to do. I feel like going to Washington and kicking a few asses for all the stupid issues in Windows 7.
I apologize for any spelling or grammar issues that would discredit me, it’s very early and this is a little bit of a rant.
