I get to observe lots of boxes running Linux: mandrake, fedora. About 50 computers, all running new releases of mdk. I work as an SA in a inet cafe so the number 1 observation is the dead slow GUI. People who are used to fast XP boxes tend to hasten things and they get the so-called GUI hangs. Of course I teach the kill and explain that it's just the GUI.
Most people with their looks seem to ask: what's the difference anyway? XP looks smooth, KDE or GNOME looks so scattered, very disoriented (microcosm of the Linux desktop blueprint). Don't mention the fonts and the colors--they are so rough, most people don't like KDE (that's a fact). Personally, I hate galaxy. So what's the difference anyway between the blue screens and the GUI hangs? On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 02:19:26 +0800, Andy Sy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dido wrote: > > > > Mysterious undiagnosable errors still do pop up once in a blue moon > > > > Maybe you mean once in a blue screen, Andy... > > > > Sorry, just couldn't resist. :D (ducks!) > > Hehe good pun. Seriously though, I have not seen a blue screen > for a *couple of years* now under XP. MS have really got their > driver act together and I dare say that with their driver certification > program, their driver reliability is at least on par with, if not > better than that of Linux drivers. > > What you do get however are all sorts of weird (usually unfixable > short of a reinstall) shit in GUI mode esp. when you don't secure > your system properly (I have the sinking suspicion that 99.9% of > internet-connected Windows PCs out there are infected with some > kind of trojan, worm or spyware) or if you stress it long enough > by installing a lot of different stuff. They don't crash the > system but just make it annoying to use. These usually happen > when something finally breaks XP's so-called 'self-healing' features > (apparently the self-healing features do not heal themselves). > > Still, XP is far far far more robust than Win 9x (though I still > recommend reinstalling from scratch after 6 months or so... a > painful procedure for me, as it takes me 3 days to put in all the > programs I rely on.) Bottom line is Windows is finally stable and > robust enough to be a reasonable workhorse OS. > > Speaking of reinstalls, I think I'm in the mood to do a fresh new > install of Slackware 10.0 on my HD. :-) > > Now in Slackware's case, very much unlike Windows, I believe this is > largely a redundant and unnecessary procedure(*). From what I know > of Slackware's directory structure and package install/uninstall > behaviour I have no reason to believe that upgrading versions will > leave junk files around or leave you with something that is not > exactly the same as a fresh Slackware 10.0 install with all your > old programs and conf files put in. But still, there's an an > irrational subconscious fulfillment (almost certainly gotten from > using Windoze too much) gained from installing an OS cleanly from > scratch. > > (*) I remember doing fresh installs of ME and 98 and having > these pathetic excuses for OSes blue screen on me even before I've > actually installed anything else!! > > In a testament to the simplicity and elegance of this distro's design, > the instructions for moving from Slackware 9.1 to 10.0 are here: > > ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/UPGRADE.TXT > > and they are only 6KB and 9 steps long! > > For the longest time, I was almost sure Slackware was Linus' distro > of choice as it is the distro that I feel represents Linux's philosophy > best, but whodathunk he used Redhat (at least once upon a time)... > > -- > reply-to: a n d y @ n e t f x p h . c o m > > -- > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph > Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph > . > To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug > . > Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie > -- I eat freedom. http://premrara.com -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
