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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
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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?
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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.
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