Windows, Linux, The Debate: which is best?

[Duncan Anderson]

Sasha Tsykin wrote:

> <snip>
> I have never encountered (in ten years of experience with windows) a 
> bug which causes the system to become unusable. I have never been 
> forced to reinstall because I couldn't figure out what on earth had 
> happened, and neither could anybody else who I asked. As this has 
> happened to me several times in linux (although not in Ubuntu), I 
> would have to say that from my personal experience, linux has more 
> "showstopper" bugs than windows.
>
Hi Sasha

Well, you are lucky. About a month ago, the company's Windows 2003 
Server started rebooting spontaneously, causing much disruption of work. 
It turned out to be an "unpatched" rpc vulnerability which had been 
exploited.
Over the period of time during which the 2003 server box must have 
rebooted about 20 times, there was not one peep, not one shudder, 
nothing, from the mail server which is running an alpha version of SUse 
10.1.

The fix involved downloading 130 odd MB of patch/update software and 
rebooting again. If that's not "showstopping" I don't know what is.

> If you want an example of a showstopper bug in linux, all you have to 
> do is look at the latest 64-bit release of source mage. There is no 
> way to get the internet to work, as far as I know, and thus no way to 
> install any additional programs, making it totally useless, because it 
> comes with nothign I actually use.
>
>> <snip>
>>
>> I make no pretence to being "objective" about this matter, you 
>> understand. Windows makes my day to day life miserable, so my 
>> response to it can only be highly subjective.
>
>
> Windows makes my life wuite pleasurable, because of it, I don't have 
> to fix my mum's computer all the time. Linux also makes my life 
> easier, because my computer almost never crashes. In my life, there is 
> definitely room for both.
>
I suppose that applies to me too. There is definitely room for both, as 
long as Windows is on other people's machines and not mine, then I'm 
happy. They are welcome to all those viruses and updates.

cheers
Duncan

		
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