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Re: Windows/Microsoft has pulled the last straw!!! [message #233910 is a reply to message #218048] Tue, 12 December 2006 15:41 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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your right...in all my life windows has never crashed without a unown cause. but i have had it with the amount of crap i get from it.

take this for example:

i was installing VMWare while i was playing world of warcraft, WoW doesn't take much to run...it uses the same priciple as renegade in redering terain etc... (although i dont know much about it, the charater and the terain the look suprisinly similar)

as soon as the installer took too much of the CPU it completely locked up, i couldn't even turn it off (using acpi). i has to cut the power.

it gets very slow when trying to do 2 tasks like open IE while starting endorphin for example, IE will be up straight away normally.

now, here is where linux completly overules windows:

1) if there is a lockup like then WoW crashed KDE will come in and save you. if KDE crashes, press F2 or ctrl+F2 (i can't rember exacly) and your in the completly in the kernel. you can do "ps aux | grep "programname" then do "kill process id" to kill it. then restart "x".
2) the windows task maniger is too primitive, if the computer locks up you can't kill anything because there is a chance taskmaniger will crash(that has happend many times).
3) linux doesn't have a "Windows error" that tell nothing about what has happend, and if you "Send" you get no support anyway. linux wil tall you about what has actully happend with a program and will kill it FOR you.
4) most newer disros are VERY userfreindly and come ready for a simple user to use.
5) linux is very powerfull, stable, reliable and best of all FREE!
6) linux is very custimiseable, you see something in a program you don't like or you want the kernel to load something that you have written, no problem! the sources are avaliable for download and it is EASY to complile and replace the old kernel.
7) more secure, the disro that i use comes with a exelent firewall, i never have problems with "hackers".
Cool viruses, becuase most veruses these days are active-x on website people just install them not knowing what they are doing, although viruses are a threat because of the way the linux kernel works it would take a hacker or a incredible stupid user to install one.

linux disadvantages:

1) not many programs (like games and newwer, cpu intensive stuff) arer not made for linux.
2) programs need dependancys and some can be very hard to find.
3) some programs are hard to install, most need to be done from the command line but commands just need to be learnt.

windows advantages:

1) alot of programs are made for it.
2) programs are easy to install

windows disadvantages:

1) VIRUSES, HACKERS...very easy to get into a windows machine.
2) not as user freindly as you think, how do i stop people from going into a folder IE they need a password?
3) windows costs 80 bucks.
4) windows is all about presentaion using valuable RAM for "fancy" pictures and animations (this also uses CPU to load them)
5) windows assumes the user is extremly stupid and pops up with messages saying "you need to restart your computer" why? why do i need to restart my computer...then it does it anyway and you lose an hours worth of work. (this has happend many times for me)
6) windows multitaking is diabolical.
7) you cant change how the "innards" of it work
Cool everything you do on windows is ilegal
9) nothing (with the exeption of 1 in 10000 programs are open source)
10) the list goes on and on and on and on.

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