The great features of Linux - an alternative view

[Michael Haney]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Derek Maciel <ishidableach at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, I have Comcast and I know exactly what you mean. Microsoft thinks
> a format and a defrag will fix anything.
>

Actually, you'd be shocked at how many problems a defrag and chkdsk
will fix.  I used to do helpdesk support.  Its was the general purpose
fix all.  LOL

But, yeah, they do rely way too much on it.  Because it doesn't always
work.  The biggest culprit behind Windows crashes is a shitty drivers,
and man do a lot of hardware makers write shitty drivers (ahem ...
ATI, now known as AMD).

> This is why I prefer Linux documentation and community-tech-support
> many times over Microsoft. People who work with the code themselves
> will obviously have more insight than people being told what to say.
>

I think Manpages need some improvement.  Often, a few are WAY better
many of the Windows help files I've seen, but others aren't very
helpful at all.  They need more examples of how one is write a
command, and quite a few have even left some information out.  Isn't
there a project out there that is working on improving Manpages?  I
though I heard of one.

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