[citation][nom]wotan31[/nom]"Windows rot". So there's actually a technical term for Microsoft's in-built shit quality? I use Linux and OSX because they don't "rot". They run just as good 3 years later as they do on day one. No sluggishness, no slow death, no hard drive grinding away wondering WTF is it doing. Not a fanboy, or even loyal to any brands; I'm just an "Anything but Microsoft" fan - because I like to use my computers to DO work - not spend all my time trying to make them work.[/citation]
That's crap, just like anything, all operating systems need maintenance and care, even OSX, my mothers husband has OSX and he experiences degradation over time, even the Linux kernel gets clogged up at times and needs a successful reboot in order to clear it.
The question remains, would you rather have a windows OS that can do anything but you have to maintain it more or linux/OSX that can do only a small %-age of what windows can do but requires less maintenance?
Do you see the pattern? the OS that does more needs to be maintained more, its all relative people...