Nick W wrote:
On July 25, 2004 07:25 am, Andrew Graupe wrote:
Microsoft 2-step: shrug-reboot. The point is that this shouldn't happen as
often as it does. Ignoring it only allows them to continue releasing beta
quality SW and charging multple $100's for it.
Just because these things shouldn't happen doesn't mean they don't
happen. Frankly, I don't think rebooting is too much of a hassle if it
doesn't happen every two minutes. I have had two BSOD in the past
month, and nothing before that since about 2002. Perhaps I'm lucky?
"ignoring it only allows them to continue releasing beta
quality SW and charging multple $100's for it."
The only time linux ever locked up on me was because of a hardware failure.
The only time linux ever refused to boot was because I mis-configured it.
This with uptimes of months vs. hours. Ive had windows lock up on me
overnight because apparently the screen saver was a bit too much for a
2GHz/512MB RAM under windows. I also know of it locking up when a game was
left paused while my buddy ate supper. It was a fully patched relatively new
XP install. It would be funny if it wasn't so pathetically sad.
Well, I can't speak for what has happened to you, but my Windows
computer(s) have enjoyed uptimes well beyond a month, and I know that
for my current Windows computer (approx 2 years old), there have only
been 5 BSODs. 3 of these I can attribute to one piece of buggy software
(not Windows). But I'm sure everyone has different experiences.
Im not saying linux is good because windows sucks. Im saying linux is good and
windows does suck, regardless of comparison. However, comparing the two is
night and day.
Windows has been reduced to a gaming OS. Once linux gets a big enough market
and more companies start releasing linux binaries, MS is in deep
Yep. Atari has started doing this (Neverwinter Nights and Unreal
Tournament 2004), and aside from MS Flight Simulator 2004, I don't need
to play games on my windows computer any more. It pisses me off that
they would make *one* piece of good software, but I have the computer,
so why not use it.
as for your fstab overwrite [in a different mail, same thread], etc-update
asks you what to do with anything other than _very_ trivial changes. If it
overwrote your fstab, it was probably your fault :) that's not meant as a
put-down, Ive just come to realize with linux that when something goes wrong
with software marked 'stable' its probably PEBCAK.
I know it is my fault. But, all the same, if Windows did the exact same
thing, you would call it for being poorly programmed or insecure. I'm
merely pointing out that there *can* be a double standard.
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