Linux: just stops working

On 2008-04-28, DFS <nospam@dfs_.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> Joe User wrote:[color=green]
>> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:02:58 -0400, DFS wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> Joe User wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is there some point to this? Google for the same thing in Windows
>>>> and you'll find a hundred times as many "Windows just stopped
>>>> working" complaints on thousands of forums.
>>>
>>> Nope. I'll let you prove it to yourself.[/color]
>>
>> I already did. I googled Windows just stopped working and got over 3
>> million hits.[/color][/color]

....you realize of course that with your own trolling you are
spiking these numbers yourself. What a clueless moron you are.

I hope you aren't responsible for any real research.

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There's lies, damned lies, statistics and then stupid trolls...


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On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:27:08 -0500, JEDIDIAH wrote:
[color=blue]
> On 2008-04-28, DFS <nospam@dfs_.com> wrote:[color=green]
>> Joe User wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:02:58 -0400, DFS wrote:
>>>
>>>> Joe User wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Is there some point to this? Google for the same thing in Windows
>>>>> and you'll find a hundred times as many "Windows just stopped
>>>>> working" complaints on thousands of forums.
>>>>
>>>> Nope. I'll let you prove it to yourself.
>>>
>>> I already did. I googled Windows just stopped working and got over 3
>>> million hits.[/color][/color]
>
> ...you realize of course that with your own trolling you are spiking
> these numbers yourself. What a clueless moron you are.
>[/color]

no u.

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Jerry McBride
<jmcbride@mail-on.us>
wrote
on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:38:02 -0400
<atpfe5xbfc.ln2@supertux.my.domain>:[color=blue]
> DFS wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Joe User wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> Is there some point to this? Google for the same thing in Windows and
>>> you'll find a hundred times as many "Windows just stopped working"
>>> complaints on thousands of forums.[/color]
>>
>> Nope. I'll let you prove it to yourself.
>>
>>
>>[color=darkred]
>>> So what?[/color]
>>
>> So Linux is unpredictable, unstable, and unprofessional. It locks up,
>> hangs, freezes and suddenly quits working at a far, far higher rate than
>> Windows.[/color]
>
>
> Only on unpredictable and unstable hardware. In fact,
> Linux will run on crap hardware, where Window will hopelessly
> fail and miserably too...[/color]

Define "crap hardware" in this context. Sure, Linux runs
very well on reliable but ancient hardware such as 386's,
486's, Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium II, and Pentium III,
as well as a lot of modern hardware (much of it non-Intel),
but even the best OS cannot hope to compensate for an
underpowered machine (in the power supply sense) or with
hardware that has such things as defective memory, bad blocks,
kinked cabling, dirty contacts, etc. etc.

The first is "old hardware". The last I'd call "crap",
though it might be salvageable by replacing the defective
components or cleaning things.

The middle one I'd call "underpowered", though that has
ambiguity; I just can't think of a better name, though, for
that particular situation.

There used to be a FAQ entry in GCC about kernel builds,
in fact -- briefly, if there's a randomly occurring
segmentation violation while one's compiling Linux, one
has to suspect that the power supply needs more oomph.
[color=blue]
>
> In stead of posting anecdotal evidence as fact, why aren't you posting
> findings that YOU have experienced? Oh, sorry... you're a windwoes
> weeney... I forgot.
>[/color]

I suspect the complaints are legitimate enough. I for one would
have to research each and every one of them to be certain.

One sore point I have with Linux is the sound subsystem; it
keeps mutating. This is not something unique to Linux, though;
I have some *very* old games that no longer function on
non-Soundblaster hardware.

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