Quote: "@Raven ... defrag on a Unix file system? wow!, there was me thinking you don`t need to defrag, something about smart file management?"
learn to read
Quote: "and ANY version of Linux I have installed can find the Windows network easily enough automaticaly, be it Red hat, Suse, Ubuntu, Debian or DSL, samba is configured to find it automagicaly in all those distro`s, never had a problem, not once, maybe you need more modern hardware"
What a most retarded comment. If anything it's better to actually have hardware a generation behind what Windows and MacOSX are capable of running because support often just isn't there until it's left to the community to add.
Samba isn't flawless, neither is the Linux network code. Just because it works with your hardware setup doesn't automatically mean it'll work for everyone else without issue.
Quote: "Not all the time - I have found that most problems are caused by dodgy third party software, especially XP drivers (used to get a lot of BSOD with nVidia drivers). Another example is the drivers for Philips sound cards."
That's never happened to me, by what people have said in several threads now obviously the fault is with something your doing.
Personally I think that's bull though, given all drivers go through Windows it can detect any issue that will cause a crash. The driver might not be certificated but there is nothing the user has done wrong. There's a chance the issue could be with the hardware, the operating system or the driver. Unless you know how to debug the problem you'll never know.
However because you got a BSOD, this means it was Windows no the driver. Windows allowed the driver to access an area of the memory that had been either corrupt or was being used by another system process (that's the only reason BSOD appear now btw). So what is to fault... the drivers? or windows?
Windows is allowing the access, the drivers are doing the illegal activity.
Thing is though as far as the drivers are conserned it's accessing perfectly fine. It's doing what it's suppose to. The error has occured because Windows isn't.
You'll find this is the major contributing factor to MANY crash, hang, etc. you'll come across. More often than not it's just a compatiblity error with that hardware rather than with software.
Software itself very rarely accesses directly...
Especially true in Linux and Windows. If you wish to access hardware it needs to go through the Kernel as direct access is prohibited to prevent the very crash and hang issues that happen.
Fine so Linux runs perfectly fine for a large number of users.. what do I care. I'm obviously part of that small percentage who has nothing but grief from it. That's just luck. What pisses me off about it though is the simple fact that no one is ever willing to even accept there IS an issue.
No it's always down to user-error, because there could never be anything wrong with the 'god' of all operating systems can there. Wake the **** up. It's attitudes like that, which quite frankly are keeping Microsoft as the top dog of the industry.
Why? because they actually listen to the customers and are constantly fixxing issues. No doubt you'll get some Linux retard sitting there saying "Well Windows is just that buggy."
BULL-FREAKING-CRAP
It's because they actually bother to take things seriously rather than assume what they've done is good enough.
Someone finds a security flaw in Linux the initial reaction is, "You've not set it up correctly."
Someone finds a security flaw in Windows, Microsoft adds it to thier To-Do list and you get a patch for it within a matter of weeks.
If the security issue was down to users not setting something up or not, Microsoft will ALWAYS spend time making it so it's not something you have to worry about. You can get back to using your programs rather than eternally setting up your configuration each time you install something new.
No doubt this will get a response of again how I'm just moaning cause of user-error or something else only pertaining to me. Fact is everyone has different experiences..
if it is user-error, then fine you get off your ass and help. if not then don't plug up your ears singing 'Linux is great' to yourself.
