More rambling from me...I have another example.
I drive an american car which the lemonaid guide says is crap. If I had to go by what they said, my car is a bucket of bolts and terribly unreliable but I'm on the original engine, tranny, fuel pump, computer and electronics. I'm at 305,000KM. I change brake pads every 50,000k, discs every 100,000k, struts every 100,000K and clutch replacement was done at 200,000K. I've had my alternator go once and a fuel pump once. Thats about it for unexpected failiures. Sensors, catalytic converters and other stuff are just consumables and to be expected. Anyway considering the mileage, I'd say thats decent.
Now if I didnt care about the car and put no effort or interest in knowing about it, maybe it would have been a bad car but knowing what to expect and doing some researched turned a potentially bad experience into a good one.
I treat computers the same. If there is a problem, then find out the solution instead of harping on the problem. It just takes time. Ages ago and I mean ages. I used dos/win 3.1 and I didnt mind it. I decided to try OS/2 just for fun. It took me months of swearing to learn its ins and outs and what makes it happy and not. I had all kinds of instability issues at first but traced it to a bad driver for one of the components. Swapped that out with a different one and then it was solid. I used it for 2-3 years at least. I could have ditched it but I decided to master it instead
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PS I know none of what I've said matters. LOL. Ford vs Chevy, Audi vs BMW, Nikon vs Canon, Atari vs Commodore. List goes on. Some people choose to take a side and hate the other. Others choose to learn both and know the good and bad about both.
Its true but hardware vendors had ages to write their drivers and submit them to MS. Many did not. I mean look how long Vista took before it came out. I dont think we can blame MS for the fact that these vendors are not writing drivers.
My favorite sound card (M-Audio 2496) still has no drivers but thats not MS's fault. M-audio is not doing their end. Its expected that a new OS will have some driver changes. I mean even from 2K to XP which was a smaller jump, there were certain hardware that needed specific XP drivers at the time. It did eventually come out but people were upset then too. I think its the same.
I think that much of the ill will stems from the fact that people should not be forced to buy new equipment just so that they have a printer or scanner that works with their OS. For instance, if your average consumer is upgrading their PC, the new one will probably come with Vista. There's a chance that they are going to experience difficulty when they are setting the thing up when the printer drivers don't allow them to print. People then tend to blame one of two (or both) things: Microsoft (very likely), or the manufacturer of the malfunctioning printer.
