I thought a while about replying to this mail, and well I feel I need to:-)
I guess it is true that MS and of course MacOS causes less work or problems as all the other operating systems do. But thats a matter of fact. Like always, I believe that is not the OS, its the user causing all of this. Like my car, the car of my family in law is 14 years old, not causing any problem. They drive 130km/h maximum and normally use it for shopping twice a week. I drive my car 1200 km a week and at the speed limit of my tires. So what would you guess? who has more problems with the car? And thats it, what does a MS or Mac user do normally? Switching the computer on, surfing the net and shutting it down. Every little issue, which not leads to a blue screen or to a freeze of the entire system is just not recorded. Linux and Unix users are a bit different. they normally do more or different things, things which always leads to problems by playing around. My wife was mad several times cause she was not able to print via the fancy raspberry cups box, cause I played around, updating here, changing config there. who changes config or do upgrades (yes, upgrades, not this tiny little updates which are not changing major version numbers) on a MS box. I know nobody how upgraded from XP to 7. The people I know reinstalled it or have 7 or 8 cause the new PC has it anyway. So, I know a girl which has a broken Windows 7 professional. Windows and HD damaged. Why? Cause shutting down the computer in the evening was always by pressing the power button for 3 seconds. It worked some 100 times, than it was gone. There are many good OSes around. I would not say MS is bad. It depends on what you want. Do you want free and easy, Fedora, openSUSE, PC-BSD is what you want. Do you want free and high secure its openBSD. By the way. My openBSD box works without crashing for several months now. My Windows 7 pro too. So... My 2 cents. regards Joerg Am Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:33:02 -0500 schrieb Daniel Villarreal <[email protected]>: > I won't argue that MS OS needs maintenance, but then they all do. I've > never heard of anyone accusing MS of "corrupting" hard drives, that's > a new one. Anyway, if you're interested in real operating systems, > you might try OpenBSD, if you care about quality and > attention-to-detail, I would advise you compare the different *BSD's > and GNU/Linux OS's to each other. I have relatively few problems with > MS Windows 7 Professional 64-bit on an Intel motherboard, with an WD > Caviar Black HD, with USB3 issues being my main concern. I have had a > few issues with GNU/Linux after updating, that shouldn't happen. If > you have consistent problems with MS Windows 7, but GNU/Linux isn't > causing any apparent problem, you might check your drivers, BIOS > firmware for updates, etc. > > regards, > Daniel Villarreal > http://youcanlinux.wordpress.com/ > > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Christopher Whittum > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Well put, Bull. In my home, we have four computers (two desktops, > > two laptops). Three of them run (Xubuntu) Linux. My mom's runs > > Windows 7. Guess which computer racks up the most hours of > > maintenance time (it's the same one that has the recurring problem > > you mentioned below). > > > > > > ... > > > > ... what is being suggested is that windows is notorious for > > corrupting the hard drive and producing the errors you might be > > getting.... > > > > My feeling is - get a real operating system that doesn't have those > > sort of problems. My wife use to use windows and we had that > > problem every year until she switched to a Mac, and since then we > > have never had a single problem. Of course I use Linux and don't > > have the problem as well. ...
