Re: Dimdows Decay Syndrome Continues

On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 07:11:42 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:

Let's be honest for a second: every operating system introduces new bugs
when it fixes old ones.

No, reasonably-designed code manages to decrease bugs in existing features
over time. Bugs in new features will happen, yes.

There is an old engineering adage: complexity arises, not so much from the
number of components, as from the number of potential interactions between
them.

Open-source systems tend to have clear separation of functions between
components, which helps keep unexpected interactions between them, in
particular, down to a minimum. This allows them to scale to massive
application deployments, like million-node supercomputers or running the
entire Internet.

The same cannot be said for Microsoft Windows. The original Windows NT
concept may have had some kind of conceptual integrity at one point. But
that has since been lost under an ongoing wave of short-sighted management
decisions driven entirely by pursuit of immediate profits.

And today, Microsoft’s own experts have no clear idea what Windows is
doing any more. Why do you think it needs to reboot about five times just
to do an OS install?