The trouble is that single users see single problems. I have to deal with many users so I see many problems.I have a 100% stable Linux system running using a AMD Athlon. It hasn't given the slightest trouble in the 18 months it has been running (24hrs a day). It is UPS supported, and has only been down once when I replaced the UPS! It runs my ADSL and website, and is pretty intensively used by worldnews.com. It also saves image thumbnails every minute.
In fact my Linux systems have always been crash free (other than the time a HD died!). I had a dual boot system (Linux and Windows) in the past. Linux was rock solid, and W98 crashed endlessly!
I guess we can all quote our own specific problems, but other than the HD crash above mentioned, _all_ my system problems (and I mean all) since the year dot have been soft - probably W98 (and 98SE). Since using XP, W2000 and W2000 server, I have not seen one hardware problem and very very few software problems.
1. Fact : more AMD systems fail than Intel ones
2. Fact : when they do fail in a hardware way throw the CPU away it is usually dead.
3. Fact : Even the Opterons are unstable when pushed.
Linux places less overheads on a system than Windoze so will be stable on a less than efficient platform. I have seen LINUX running perfectly happily on a skt 370 chip that XP will not install onto. This is more to do with LINUX than with the underlying chip architecture.
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