XP Vs Linux in stability.. (DUN DUN DUN)

[voidmain]

quote:Originally posted by MacUser3of5:
If we are going to have a longest running time competition, my longest is 3 weeks, 2 days...

... on a PowerBook      

Uh you've got a long way to go to beat my 490 days...

[MacUser3of5]

Considering I've owned this for about 2 months, yes, yes I do    

I also had to shut it down for loading OS 9... but  I will see how long I can go on... currently, it's on five days, 12 hours...

[ September 05, 2002: Message edited by: MacUser3of5 ]

[voidmain]

Are you running OS X? Never mind, you edited your post with the answer.  

[ September 05, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

[rtgwbmsr]

quote:Originally posted by VoidMain:
But what happened to that argument about Windows supporting all this hardware?  I don't believe it should count if it only supports it half assed.  And surely AMD Athalon would have to be one of the most critical pieces of hardware that should be supported, even if slightly behind Intel. I have *never* had a problem on my Athalon/VIA chipset with Linux. It doesn't have any such "slowdown" problem you describe with XP.  

So now why should I pay the extra $45 for the processor, then the extra $??? for XP, then the extra $??? for MS Office XP, then the extra $??? for Visual.net, then the extra $???? for SQL Server, and *still* not get the source code?

My point exactly.
I have never had a full crash in Linux.
I love to play with source code.

Microsoft just can't give me that.

So, by now, you have 3 of my reasons for switching.

[MacUser3of5]

But wouldn't you agree, that with an average user (which it sounded like the post was about) access to the source code is irrelevant?

Also, people like to play lots of games, etc... Linux isn't undersupported per se, but there just isn't as much support for mainstream products, meaning games, which this AIM person most likely plays.

Also, Windows XP is all-around fairly well done and pretty stable, but I would rather use 2k if I had to choose.

[voidmain]

quote:Originally posted by MacUser3of5:
But wouldn't you agree, that with an average user (which it sounded like the post was about) access to the source code is irrelevant?

Actually no I wouldn't.  It's likely that the "average user" you speak of knows someone who is more than an "average user" and that source code could help the "not so average user" give the "average user" what he desires.

 

quote:
Also, people like to play lots of games, etc... Linux isn't undersupported per se, but there just isn't as much support for mainstream products, meaning games, which this AIM person most likely plays.

Well the first category in my "main stream products book" isn't games.

 

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Also, Windows XP is all-around fairly well done and pretty stable, but I would rather use 2k if I had to choose.

I'm glad I have more choices than those to choose from because I don't choose either of them.

But I understand where you are coming from.  Someone who only plays games is not going to come to Linux because there are fewer game developers for Linux.  There are fewer game developers for Linux because there are fewer people who use Linux to play games.  That's the problem that needs to be addressed.  Do you have any suggestions (seriously)? I don't know the answer.  I do believe if the developers were to bite the bullet for a little while and produce all of their games for Linux there might be a chance that gamers will start to transition in mass numbers.  Who knows?  

I do think the cyclic redundancy will eventually be broken some how, some way. I don't even know what "cyclic redundancy" means, I just see it on a lot of broken Microsoft Web servers, and this is what I imagine it could mean.  

[ September 05, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

[AlexMax]

It seems like in vereral points of this conversation Zombie seemed to dodge the REALLY good arguments for the less convincing ones.  It's sad really...

[rtgwbmsr]

Sorry Zombie, 7 days. I had to restart after the computer stopped recognizing other computers on the network, and became horrendously sluggish. Restarting  fixed both.

Someone: WTF!? A final version of Mozilla (1.1) is crashing more than IE. Of course, unlike IE, it restarts the app and picks up where it left off. May be related to the network problems or sluggishness.

[tr_one]

Reading all of this, I just had to add that:

AMD sponsors Ferrari Formula 1 Team

Intel sponsors BMW Williams Formula 1 Team

I know I know, Off Topic.

Hmm AMD Sponsers Ferrari Formula 1 Team

[ September 07, 2002: Message edited by: tr_one ]

[heylee]

Sorry but winblows sucks ass. I have had to reinstall windows 2000 3 times in the past month because of stupid errors. You can't possibly run windows for long because of all the stupid blue screens and the fact that it doesn't like it if you run a game or some other high resource program. Windows cries if you don't have a ton of ram or processor speed.