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Linux vs Windows a real life comparison
MarathoN:
Weird, I don't run any security software and in the 5+ years or so that I have been running Windows 2000 I have never had one problem, neither have I had the problem that you mentioned (then again, that is what happens when you use Windows Explorer for a shell ;))
At least in Windows 2000 you have Program Manager. :D
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: MarathoN ---Weird, I don't run any security software and in the 5+ years or so that I have been running Windows 2000 I have never had one problem, neither have I had the problem that you mentioned (then again, that is what happens when you use Windows Explorer for a shell ;))
At least in Windows 2000 you have Program Manager. :D
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There isn't as much malware floating about for Windows 2000, so you probably don't need much security software.
I wouldn't expect I'd be able to reproduce that crash I got on the right-click. I usually can't reproduce Windows and explorer crashes, kinda wierd. It's almost like they're programmed to crash at random intervals.
Isn't Windows 2000 supposed to be more stable and secure than Windows XP anyhow? I haven't used it much at all.
piratePenguin:
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I know some other people here have had problems with Windows but there are many people who don't, either this is just luck or it's something that some people are doing right and others are doing wrong.
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I know that the things you explained in that post aren't what's wrong, because I've done most of them. The Windows XP SP2 setup I had before I installed Mandrake on this system was as good as I could get it and it still often sucked. I can't remember it crashing (that doesn't mean it didn't crash), but I can remember it running slow when you try to do stuff in it like run Flash and Photoshop. I remember thinking it truley sucked at multi-tasking, but I put that right down to my "mingey" 256MB RAM (good news for the RAM manufaturers!). However, before I got down to getting another 512MB RAM I installed Mandriva (bad news for the RAM manufacturers!) and was dual-booting. I must've booted into Windows about two times after that, before removing it.
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it's something MS don't want to fix.
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Bad news for Windows and Windows users! If it was free, it wouldn't matter much that Microsoft don't want to fix some problem, because the door's always open for someone else to do it (that I couldn't resist).
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Have you checked them then?
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No, I haven't really used that computer since.
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If you've listened to my advice then it's a clean install that's only used to access the Internet from a limited account and there are no shitty 3rd party memory resident security programs running then.
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It's not my system to fix, and I will not fix it. The only fix I'd give it is a decent operating system like GNU/Linux, but last I checked it's owner didn't want that. I'll just wait for him/Windows to completely fuck something up, and try again.
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Windows 2000, yes but not XP since I've had not reason to but after a couple of days I haven't notice any significant degredation in performance.
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Sounds like a great operating system!
EDIT: Oops, I read that wrong. Anyhow, try running it for a few weeks. If your experience is anything like these other guy's, you will notice quite a degration in performance.
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I'm just saying that (if you know what you're doing) it isn't all that bad
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That depends on what you mean by "all that bad". To a small extent I'd agree.
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Well it/something did crash/fuck up when I right-clicked a folder on my brothers system. Whether that was the fault of a driver (that came with Windows and is very much a part of the operating system), some part of Windows Exploror, something deep inside Windows, or malware, I cannot say. But it happened. And it pissed me off, and brought back memories. And it's something I hadn't seen in yonks.
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it runs well on 256MB of RAM
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Except it has shit memory management. So 256MB is probably okay so long as you never fill it (good thing the operating system doesn't waste much space (which I've been led to believe is true)), I think.
Pathos:
My Windows XP is very stable and I've never had virus problems.
Never update (apart from Sp2)...just use ZoneAlarm and AVG...I don't know how people have all these problems.
I've installed hundred of apps, even shit like window blinds and its still solid.
Only problem I've had is my nostromo driver was BSOD on login, I think the loadout manager was being started before the driver was fully initialised. All I did was set in to manual startup and its fine.
Vector Linux SOHO on the other hand is rather broken at the moment ...
...i know, i know ... user error... :P
MarathoN:
pP : Yes, Windows 2000 is godly compared to XP in terms of speed, it runs great on 256mb of ram too, even with 128mb it runs fine.
Windows 2000 has always run great on my machine, and my machine isn't very fast at all, 1.5ghz processor and 512mb ram, XP ran horribly slow it didn't really surprise me though, as I expected it :D
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