Win progs fall over Was: Re: Performance shock (BS)

[Robert L Parker]

On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 16:55 +0200, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> > Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> > 
> Ah well, but we discussing the particular point of responsiveness, not
> stability ! ;o) I have not used Windows for 12 months now (this is my
> first year using Linux only, quite a milestone ! :o), but I seem to
> recall that yes, it used to crash "every now and then" ;o)
> But to be fair, Linux certainly crashed even more often, Gnome applets,
> Nautilus, Evolution, immature programs, Nvidia drivers, what have you,
> but somehow, no matter how many times Linux crashes, I am still very
> happy with it, whereas just looking at the Windows desktop makes me
> sick, so as soon as it crashes, even just once a month...  it (used to)
> drives me mad. 

Linux crashes? I ran Debian Woody from r0 until last week, about 3
years.
The only time I crashed it was when I was experimenting with hdparm.
Sure apps crashed, the version of Mozilla that came with it would be
killed by the kernel every few days, but Linux never.

FWIW I replaced Woody with Ubuntu Hoary so far without problems.

Bob