[luau] MSWindows

[Eric Hattemer]

Oh, and I forgot to mention that all MS systems seem to eat your hard drive
in 1-5 years of use.  Things start to crash, and the crashing causes more
crashes and corrupts data, etc.  I haven't really run win2000 for long
enough to see it do this, although I have reinstalled it a couple of time
for other reasons (different partition size, new motherboard without raid,
etc).  Somethimes programs are able to do this, sometimes windows updates
break the system.  But I've broken my linux to the point where I needed to
reinstall it too.  I could have done some massive upgrading, compiling,
reinstalling, etc., but since its a system just to mess around with, I just
reinstalled it.

-Eric Hattemer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Hattemer" <hattenator at imapmail.org>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: [luau] MSWindows


> > The odd thing is that for the most part, I have yet to find a real
> > justification for the cash in terms of productivity that was not
achieved
> > with the release of Windows 95 and its corresponding office suite.
> Windows
> > 98 and 2K have achieved little more than an incremental resistance to
> crashes
> > and have driven many upgrades and redos in the office in order to keep
> things
> > moving.
>
> The argument that windows crashes often is no longer a valid argument.
> Win95 crashed often.  Win98 crashed less often, but ate your disk more
> often.  However, winNT/2000/XP don't crash when configured properly.
> Win2000 was the first usable system of these.  My first windows 2000
system
> went well over a year without a single crash.  Then I upgraded my
> motherboard and all periferals, and reinstalled win2000.  Its been a
couple
> of months, and still no crashes.  You could make an argument about memory
> leaks, or that windows isn't good for servers, but aside from cost issues,
> linux doesn't really compete for the desktop.  My linux applications used
to
> mysteriously disapear all the time.  Now that KDE has a crash dialog, I'm
> pretty familiar with that too.  Now of course I'm sure I could use dated
> versions of KDE, and a 2.2 kernel, and maybe it'd be more stable.  But I
> think its highly ironic that people talk about windows desktops crashing,
> considering my experiences.  Now of course linux makes a better server.
> Win2k servers are a joke.  But as long as you turn you at least reboot
your
> windows desktop once a day (which doesn't seem like too much to ask), it
> does a great job.
>
> -Eric Hattemer
>
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