A senior Microsoft executive told a BBC documentary that people should use commercial software if they're looking for stability. "Some people want to use community-based software, and they get value out of sharing with other people in the community. Other people want the reliability and the dependability that comes from a commercial software model. And again, at the end of the day, you make the choice based on what has the highest value to you."
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Good for you, I had many in the last months. Hard freezes, deadlocks and kernel panics, not application crashes.
Just buy next machine according to both, Windows and Linux HCL. For example NForce4, AMD64, NVidia graphics, SB Audigy (but be carefull which one) would be somehow the nicest working machine under all three (Windows, Linux and Solaris)
You won't live enough to see one HW crash under any OS I mentioned. But the first one you will see you can be 100% sure your HW malfunctioned.
Good for you, I don't remember when was my last crash, and I'm quite addicted to copy/past. At least it works. Last time I tried KDE, I couldn't paste from Konqueror to Kdevelop. I am pretty sure it was a bug with the specific release I had (Debian "etch", around April 2006), but it was quite annoying... Don't have a better experience with GNOME either (which I am using daily).
No problems with copy/paste for me. At least I haven't noticed any.
My point? Everybody have different experience of their OSes. So, it's not because it sucks for you that it sucks for me. I have never been lucky with desktop Linux (it NEVER worked flawlessly in the 8 years I have with it) while I know some people having no issues at all. So yeah, I got better reliability with XP! Forget about virus, spywares & the like or slowware like antiviruses, I know how to manage my systems. That said, I have only praises for my Linux servers and I try to prevail with the Ubuntu Dapper installation I made on my laptop... Again, different people, different experience.
And your first sentence here would be the holy truth.
Talking of "reliability", I'm pretty sure Microsoft isn't talking of stability. Even if it can be REALLY expensive, Microsoft is always there for their customers. From that point of view, they are more "reliable" than a bunch of hackers than could possibly leave their project to dust whenever they want. It's unapplicable for OSS-based enterprises like Redhat, Novell, MySQL AB or even Trolltech, but it's more towards smaller projects like your average app on GnomeFiles. Of course, it's all marketing, since you must spend LOTS of money to be their friend...
Actualy if they would talk about reliability like you say they talk about. You're dead wrong. I've got quite a few customers with subscriptions, etc. And what did I learn. That MS support is the last thing I call (so far their success ammounts to 0% and ammount of my wasted time calling or e-mailing them goes beyond any other support). That MSN is the last search engine where I look for problem solvers and that MS screwed our country code page as much as possible (a long story, but it doesn't account to MS directly as much as local country MS store whom one can't declare anything else but gods of stupidity. One can't believe how many codepages there are for our country, 6 so far and UTF-8 was not counted. And the one being used in default regional setup is dead wrong, because they wanted to maintain compatibility with their previous mistake. One could look at that as good move for customer, but on the other hand coder can't write a decent app and not follow the same stupid mistake, which means code page can't move on with the world in this century).
What I can count on?
That I will do a search on Google and find answer very soon? Yes. 100%
That I can call my friends who might get to this problem already and they searched on Google? Yes. 10-20%
It is not Windows support that sucks, in fact it is very good (I can't remember one case when google wouldn't be my friend by providing solution to the problem and in the same breath I can't remember one case when MSN would be). The one that sucks is MS support for their products.
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2005-06-30
Is that why I've been using Linux for 4 years, and have never, I repeat never, had a system crash?
Good for you, I had many in the last months. Hard freezes, deadlocks and kernel panics, not application crashes.
Is that why Windows XP crashed 8 times on me last week while I was working on a large PowerPoint presenation, coying and pasting graphics from Word documents to the PPT?
Good for you, I don't remember when was my last crash, and I'm quite addicted to copy/past. At least it works. Last time I tried KDE, I couldn't paste from Konqueror to Kdevelop. I am pretty sure it was a bug with the specific release I had (Debian "etch", around April 2006), but it was quite annoying... Don't have a better experience with GNOME either (which I am using daily).
My point? Everybody have different experience of their OSes. So, it's not because it sucks for you that it sucks for me. I have never been lucky with desktop Linux (it NEVER worked flawlessly in the 8 years I have with it) while I know some people having no issues at all. So yeah, I got better reliability with XP! Forget about virus, spywares & the like or slowware like antiviruses, I know how to manage my systems. That said, I have only praises for my Linux servers and I try to prevail with the Ubuntu Dapper installation I made on my laptop... Again, different people, different experience.
Talking of "reliability", I'm pretty sure Microsoft isn't talking of stability. Even if it can be REALLY expensive, Microsoft is always there for their customers. From that point of view, they are more "reliable" than a bunch of hackers than could possibly leave their project to dust whenever they want. It's unapplicable for OSS-based enterprises like Redhat, Novell, MySQL AB or even Trolltech, but it's more towards smaller projects like your average app on GnomeFiles. Of course, it's all marketing, since you must spend LOTS of money to be their friend...