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75 % of all win XP installations crash, according to Microsoft
ShawnD1:
I've installed XP at least 5 times and it has never ever crashed.
Stilly:
then why have you had to install it 5 times?
Siplus:
you people have problems...
windows is bad, but not half as bad as you people are making it out to be. i build my own computers, and i don't have to tweak my bios settings (although i do anyway, eventually) to get windows to work. i don't have to install it 5 times in a row...a simple once or twice a year is good enough. i never have win2k lock up during install (98 is another story...).
oh, and linux, for the most part, is more complex to install. this is only because most people have no idea what a partition is, and to install linux, you have to set up ur partitions. windows does this automaticly (i know that some linux distros can do it automatically too...but only a few).
having said that, plz remember that i use linux
edit: oh, and none of my friends have ever had problems w/ a preinstalled winbox. you must have picked that computer from a real shitty company
[ July 26, 2003: Message edited by: Siplus: *Capitalist* ]
solarismka:
SuSE, Mandrake, Lindows, RedHat, Knoppix, Caldera, xandros, etc.. ALL partition the HD automaticaly! If your installing linux on a fresh box then you do NOT NEED TO partition the Hard drive! In windows you CAN"T partition the hard drive unless its NT and if you use two file formats, NTFS/FAT your asking for problems!
Bottom line. Linux IS easier to install!
Yes ive seen Xpiss crash, I even seen the XBox crash.
It depends on the hard ware. You can't run windows reliably on any old machine. for 98/ME i recomend at least 128mb of ram! But when both those OS'ses came out that wasn't available. Hence the BSOD!
And yes ME does take a whole day. you have to restore all the programs you were using (if you don't fuck up the registry first, which would make you start all over again!) and then restore all of the saved files that you were using. Oh and you have to install the drivers and don't froget that .dat file for you AVS!
Compare this with Linux! All the software drivers install in an hour, no AVS! just restore your files and your done! :D
And upgratding doesn't take hudreds, if not thousands of dollars!
I just took a sleepease, so I appologise if I sound a bit off :D
[ July 26, 2003: Message edited by: -=Solaris.M.K.A=- ]
Siplus:
i can't beleive i'm actually defending windows...
the most it has ever took me to set up windows after an install is maybe 4 or 5 hours if i have to search online for the drivers (which is a rarity. usually only need drivers for my wireless mouse, network card, video card, and maybe sound), but i usually have those disks/cds on hand. this is including formatting the harddrive and reinstalling all the programs in need/want/use (and i'm an avid gamer, so i install a lot of shit). there is no possible way it would ever take an entire day to configure windows!!!
i am still configuring linux to the way i like it. this is partially because it is so customizable (good) and i'm still fairly new to it (bad).
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