A switcher story: Ubuntu to Windows

[Øivind Hoel]

On 8/28/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 20:35 -0700, Corey Burger wrote:
> > On 8/27/06, Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org> wrote:
> > > I'm guessing its more likely to be bad capacitors if it was just 'bam,
> > > lockup' than anything.  I've had to work on about 60 machines (out of
> > > 300) with that particular issue so far.  Ugh.  Just depends on when you
> > > bought the machines and who from. (ie: did they go with the slightly
> > > cheaper parts)
> >
> > Despite his stated claim of Ubuntu killing his hardware being dubious
> > at best, I think he does have some valid points. We should be careful
> > about attacking a switcher merely because this blame mistaken things
> > on Ubuntu.
>
> Of course; I'm not doubting that his machine stopped working for some
> reason, possibly due to a Ubuntu bug.  He just doesn't give enough
> information to even begin to determine what the problem could be.

Bugs like the year-old https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/22336 lead me
to believe the OS is capable of seriously damaging the system, however
unlikely.