ms fanboys telling me i have chip on my shoulder because windows 7 hard drive sleep mode was causing my hds to make ridiculously loud noises and come up with messages telling me to backup data... prime example of what exactly ?
I am not an MS fanboy. I know Windows has problems, just far less with their latest OS. I used to be exlusively a Linux user for quite a while and I am eye-ing up a MacBook Pro after having used OSX for a while not long ago.
And you do have a chip on your shoulder. You were slagging off Windows 7 before you even tried it, and whenever something happens you don't agree with you get this militant attitude towards MS and if someone disagrees with you they are suddenly a fanboy. If there was such a thing as an anti-fanboy it would be you.
Windows 7 detected something wasn't quite right with your disks and informed you to backup your stuff. If you disks had failed spectacularly and Windows had said nothing, you no doubt would be complaining about that too.
Your disks crunching away is nothing to do with the OS. It just tells your disks to go to sleep, and the controller/firmware does the rest.
i don't instantly think ms sucks because i have a problem. i think ms sucks because i have been using their OS for 10+ years.
If they're that bad stop using their products.
i have said i like windows 7 after 4 hours of disabling and customizing options. tweaks to me is registry changes that allow you to make changes that are not in the standard gui available for changing. for example windows xp has the tweak ui software that allowed you to make some changes. I see no reason to have the attitude of "no os is perfect so don't say anything bad about ms and shut up."
The "No OS is perfect" comment was a simple statement of fact. It was not meant as an excuse, though I am not surprised you came to that conclusion.
No developer can do everything every user wants. A rather apt quote is "to ship is to choose". You saying MS and their testing sucks because they don't include a specific GUI option you want is just silly.
Frankly I would rather MS spend their time on the exceptional resource management, security and performance than worry about specific GUI additions and tweaks that 99% of people find more than acceptable as they are [or are capable, as yourself, of tweaking.]
as for testing, sure i am being a bit obnoxious about it. just trying to make a joke about it as well.
Wasn't all that obvious given the tone of your post.
I will leave it at that as the thread has been derailed somewhat.
