What originally sounds like a gripe about Home Automation Software.... is usually (and quickly) exposed as anti-Microsoft. America is hated by many as the great evil. Most of those people who hate Americans are forgien... but some are born and raised in the USA. Computers, the Internet, and Microsoft are as symbolic of the USA as our flag is... for most non-Americans. I truly believe most anti-windows posts... are in actuality just anti-American rants.
I worked with all flavors of windows over the years. I would be shocked if Apple didn't work better than windows... Microsoft doesn't control the hardware like Apple does. I have played with Linux.... and how can I complain... it was free. I retired as a network admin... and I am a fan of windows. Every version (IMHO) has been better than the previous. For HA... I use an old saved from the trash P3.. running XP.
Sorry, but, ummm, what are you drinking? Maybe you should take a "time out" or something.
I`m Canadian, I bought my first computer more than 17 years ago and started off on DOS and eventually DOS shell. I`ve used windows for more or less for half of my life and I still hate it. I am not anti-American, as you may think, but vista f$?%ed my computer up beyond all recognition back when I decided that I had to be at the head of the pack with the others that were foolish enough to trust microshaft and adopt their new OS. I had to "upgrade" back to xp and in the process lost a lot of time and valuable data.
Additionally, I`ve actually used Ubuntu Linux enough to say that (IMHO) it is a much better OS than XP or vista, although I am still not quite happy with the software & hardware support. Alas, my balls are still firmly clasped by the bear-trap known as windows.
The other day I installed winblows 7 because xp screwed up my system yet again with one of it`s "updates". One day my computer works, the next it`s as if I unwittingly installed a virus, though all I did was agree to reboot after my update.
So far I have to say that I don`t hate windows 7. I`ve only used it for a day or so, so that could very well change, but even after the living hell and tens if not hundreds of hours that microsh1t has wasted of my life, never to be recovered or compensated for, I try to remain optimistic. Although my suspicious side tells me that microsoft purposely messed up some people`s xp installations, forcing them to move to their latest cash-grab: what vista should have been to begin with.
As the devil`s advocate, I guess the stock-holders need something to stay interested.