on 7/22/2007 3:48 PM, Jim Cornette wrote: > David Boles wrote: >> on 7/22/2007 1:41 PM, Felix Miata wrote: >>> On 2007/07/22 16:06 (GMT-0400) David Boles apparently typed: >>> >>>> As for Windows "needs reinstalling far more often than Linux"? Maybe for >>>> some. I installed XP PRO in early 2002, it is needed for work, and the >>>> only time I have had to reinstall was last spring when my hard drive >>>> failed and I replaced it. I would not say two times in six years is often. >>> A sample size of one machine is meaningless. Typical doz users have their >>> systems mucked up by all sorts of detritus, for which a common, and >>> sometimes only, escape is reinstallation. >>> http://cdbaby.com/mp3lofi/lbarker5-03.m3u >> Maybe. But it typically is not Windows that "mucks up" the system. It is >> the user. Those are them same users that can "muckup" a Linux install. >> >> ;-) >> >> > > Using Windows for commercial products leads to all sorts of possible > problems from plug-n-play wrongly detecting the wrong device to simple > items like adding one new device to the system will mess up the whole > system. Then even removing the new hardware will still leave the system > destroyed. Once windows does the wrong thing, it is near impossible to > get it to revert back to a working state again. Never had this problem. I add and remove USB harddrives, pen drives, my camera, along with other things, with never a hiccup. The only actual piece of hardware that Windows cares about is the motherboard. And that is only because the correct drivers are not there, yet, for the new motherboard's chip set. > However, I agree that a user for windows messes up the system by > deleting files instead of using its add remove features. The same user > would do similar to a Linux system if they had a Linux system instead of > windows. -- David
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