>>>http://xkcd.com/1479/
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>>Reminds me of my old Trabant, where you had to know a dozen little tricks how to get this or that done. But the sad thing is that, in most cases, in Windows it's by design. Not necessarily the design by Microsoft, but rather the design of Microsoft...
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>A dozend tricks on a Trabant? I've never noticed that it had that many functions (0,5Mm with it ) :)

Depends on what you call a function. There were about three things to try when the left door won't close... I usually summarized it with "you need no instruction on how to use rear windows". But it had a digital gasoline gauge! True! There were digits on the dipstick.

>O.K. I 've changed cylinder head gasket an open road

Never needed to get that far. It never left me on the road. It would leave me two blocks from home, and then I'd just leave it there and walk home. Few days later I'd summon the nerve and call the guy to come make it move.

> and squeezed myself from the trunk to the driver's seat because of a damaged lock.

The door was hard to close but it locked fine. Once, on its own, just when I left the jacket with the key on the rear seat. Didn't really squeeze myself all the way in, just to get the jacket.

>My ex once changed head tubes in the backyard (It was worth it. The faces of the neighbours where priceless as we moved away ...) But tricks? I prefer to call it common manual skills.

I call them tricks because there was a lot of uncommon knowledge involved. You just had to know things. Like... someone came to ask me "does Trabant have..." and I interrupted him with a "no, doesn't". "Let me finish the question" - "no need, it doesn't have it... but ok, what?" - "oil pump" - "nope, it's a two cycle... no water pump - air cooling... no gasoline pump - gravity works... no distributor - got two connectors around the transaxle".

Now if those guys in Redmond knew what the Windows reminds us of...