On Sat, 2005-05-03 at 10:39 -0500, mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > For Linux being more stable? As soon as I add certain modules into my > kernel, the required reboot time drops to about once a week - not > really much better than a Windows box - the Windows box which also has > such modules installed into the kernel, causing an equivalent problem. Which modules? > On the other side, I've found that Windows manages to beat Linux for > certain frequent operations that a desktop user would perform, such as > "time to launch a web browser". Internet Explorer launches very > quickly. Those who are aware will claim that this is a trick - > Windows has already loaded much of Internet Explorer by the time the > user clicks the button to launch an actual Internet Explorer > window. This is, of course, only true for IE. Other browsers start quite a bit slower. Try comparing the startup times of a non-MS browser on Windows and the same browser on Linux. > Fact is, though, desktop users don't care. Very true.
