I have to agree with Jason about OS X errors. The one thing that Microsoft has beat over Sun, HP, Apple, and maybe even Dell is there documentation. Some might argue that OpenSource software has good documentation ( It does ). The problem I find with error messages is the information that you can google for with OpenSource software can be hit or miss and the information can very in quality. With Microsoft's KB system you can find most if not all issues and problems in 30 minutes Vs hours.
-Miller ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jason LaPier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Dec 29, 2006 11:21 AM Subject: RE: [Eug-lug] Narrowing Vistas, content protection, hardware and the death of open source in the "consumer" world. To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <[email protected]> After using and supporting XP for the last four years or so, I'd have to admit, it doesn't BSOD as much as earlier versions of Windows - in fact, even when I did see a BSOD it was hardware related (bad memory, failing hard drive, etc). Anyway, I think the point of the OP was that 98% of Windows users could use XP for the next 5 or 10 years if they had to and not even blink (as long as their AV works and their OS updates keep coming in) - there's no point in upgrading to Vista, because Vista doesn't have anything additional to offer the web-surfing, word-processing, mp3-playing, general pop. My biggest problem with OS X is lack of UI feedback. Most of the time if an application crashes, it just goes away - ugly error messages are hidden from the end-users, which both confuses the user and makes support that much more of a pain. Does hiding the error messages make the OS appear more stable to the end-user? I don't know. Probably. I just wish there was a way to at least go into System Prefs and check a box somewhere that would change that behavior. I've pretty much gotten to the point where I hate Windows and OS X equally, but for entirely different reasons. When it comes to user support, I find Windows easier to troubleshoot (the Event Viewer beats the pants off the 'Console' and googling for Windows errors yields solutions, whereas googling for Mac-related problems tends to lead me to propaganda) but of course OS X has a much more intuitive interface, cutting down on the "How do I" issues. So generally, in my office I let the end-users pick their poison. I won't support Vista until vendors like Dell no longer offer XP pre-installed, which I have a feeling will be years from now. - Jason ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 9:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Narrowing Vistas, content protection,hardware and the death of open source in the "consumer" world. I'd have to say you are talking about mac-users there! "2% of people are perhaps fortunate enough to have it work all the time. Blessed are thosethat have never seen a blue screen and/or never sworn at their computer." With of course the exception that I had sworn at my computer at least a few times (mostly for the lack of dual-releases on games and/or game developement tools). I only wish apple spent as much time making developement suites (if they made any at all) as easy to understand as they did the workings of their os. -E -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 7:49 PM Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Narrowing Vistas, content protection, hardware and the death of open source in the "consumer" world. That seems a gross over statement. Should be "XP works sometimes for 98% of the people that use it". --- Michael Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
XP works just fine for 98% of the people out there.
Miller
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