Talk:Anti-Windows

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"Unfortunately, over time it appears to have become more fashion than reason which drives people to dislike it."

Dangerous topic, but...WTF?!? It doesn't appear like that to me. There are more then enought reasons why people dislike(d) or hate Windows and Microsoft. From luser perspective, take '98 and the stability (or rather: the lack of it), for example. It's weird that onme who experiences this every day starts to rather not loving the OS in question? If something becomes popular it is a fashion? It disgusts me to make it look like 'most people who hate Windows do it out of fashion' - because that's what the quoted sentence says. -- dpi

And yet it's the truth. See Slashbot. There are plenty of people out there who think it's hip to hate Windows. For every one person who weighs up the pros and cons of something and comes to their own conclusion, i'm willing to bet there are twenty who just do whatever their friends do or whatever is "cool". It's human nature. -- Amw

I agree with Amw and we don't agree on much with this subject. Its a bit like complaining about the opposite sex (or the same sex, as the case may be). Its always there, its always a complicated problem, and its never a subject upon which you can win much ground but have no choice but to be in proximity of. So even when you don't really hate it, when your friend talks about his/her problems with the issue, you hate it too. Fasion. Webfork

I've never thought being anti-anything was ever a fad. I see the thinking in the sentence at the top of this page, as more of an attempy to trivialize the issue. There are many valid reasons to be anti-Windows, just as there are many reasons to be anti-american. Its not the truth to say that all people that are anti-Windows have no real reason to be so. Trying to diminish valid concerns, by suggesting an anti-movement is a fashion is a poor defense. - ABliss