On 2010-03-14 10:07 PM, James Knott wrote: > Tanstaafl wrote: >> However, simply pointing out facts - that Windows has the vast >> majority of the installed user base, or that it doesn't crash all >> of the time
> To which I pointed out the often illegal means MS uses to force > market share. Which is *IRRELEVANT TO THE SIMPLE FACT THAT THEY DO HAVE IT*. sheesh. > They sure didn't get there by producing quality products. Windows, since version 2000, has been very stable for me, with occasional issues caused by - yep, buggy drivers. Linux has been very reliable as well. I like them both. I do find that Windows seems to like to be rebooted at least once every month or two, whereas linux is like the energizer bunny - I've only had one time in the 6+ years I've been using it on my servers when it went non-responsive, even to SSH logins. I didn't have to do a hard reboot on it, it did eventually respond to the power button press which told it to shutdown, and it eventually did. I think it was runaway courier-imap process, but wasn't sure, and don't know enough about debugging something like that to figure it out... > BTW, how then did Windows get it's reputation for crashing? As I have said, because there are vastly more people using it, and since most are very inexperienced, they get infected with different malware that causes instability, and/or download $random__buggy_program from the internet and install it. And yes, I am fully in agreement that it is much easier for Windows to get infected than Linux, mostly because, until Vista/7, the default was to run with a full admin account. When running witha Limited Account, Windows is probably about as safe as Linux, but - again, until Vista/7 - it just wasn't practical to do so, since there were so many things you couldn't do and 'Run as Admin' wasn't very reliable. Outdated/buggy drivers are another major factor. > I've certainly seen that happen often enough. Or is the BSOD just a > myth that I've personally experienced? Nope, not a myth, just irrelevant to the comment you were replying to. -- Charles --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
