Windows annoyances (Score:2, Insightful)
by sting3r on Monday October 08, @01:30PM (#2402744)
(User #519844 Info | http://valinux.n3.net/) This is just a symptom of
the generally uncooperative nature of Win32 applications. Windows
software does not know how to share; how to place configuration
information under HKEY_CURRENT_USER instead of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE; how
not to leave necessary files in c:\windows; how not to mess up your
Start menu, desktop, and registry upon installation. You think Freshmeat
is full of amateurish, half-baked projects? Take a look around your
local software store and you'll find the same exact thing.

In short, Windows applications are a textbook example of competition at
all costs. Spyware and "gator" controls install themselves, behind the
scenes, and mess with every other application. Many applications install
"quick start" programs in the system tray or as services, wasting your
resources and time in the vain hope that you'll use their software more
often. It's no-holds-barred capitalism. Applications fight with each
other over eyeballs and control of your system, and you're left with a
mostly-unstable computer that blares ads at you and has a dozen security
holes.

And that is why I run Linux. Because the coders who wrote my
applications had respect for me, the user.

-sting3r