[Leaplist] Linux Advocasy: What they'll miss

[Derek Konigsberg]

On Thu, 8 May 2008, Steve Litt wrote:
> My experience with Windows machines is I had to defrag every month or so, and
> once a year I had to do a prophylactic format/reinstall, after which the
> machine would run faster and more crash free. I had this experience for
> Win3.0 thru W98. I've never used NT, 2K, XP or Vista.

Win9X and WinNT/2K/XP/Vista are *completely* different operating systems. 
They have some API commonality, but it probably ends there.
Win9x is a pile of crap that'll blow up all on its own.
The NT-based ones are *much* better.  (of course everyone is screaming 
bloody murder over Vista's attempts to prevent apps from crapping over the 
OS, probably because it breaks poorly written apps and annoys the user)

> Before someone brings up upgrading rather than format/install, let me tell you
> that my 20th century experiences with Linux upgrades were ugly, so I stopped
> upgrading. My view -- the couple hours it takes to format/install is well
> worth possession of a known state.
That's because you use Mandriva.  The built-in upgrade features in 
Ubuntu actually *work* and I haven't had any problems with them.

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Derek Konigsberg
octo at logicprobe.org
http://hecgeek.blogspot.com
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