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I seriously don't understand the maliciousness over OS choice.

It's because some people haven't got lives, and feel the need to engage in amazing feats of brand loyalty.

Reasons I'm not keep on windows:
1. Antitrust. A lot of what MS did was terrible - eg: stomping on BeOS, screwing up DRDOS etc.
2. The last remaining Windows machine I have keeps needing input to keep it running. If it just got on with it, without all these virus problems and spyware problems, I'd be happy with it.
I've professionally written programs in Visual C++ for some years in the past, so I'm not lousy with windows. Often I find people who say Windows is stable (eg in work), I then watch spend two days rebuilding their machine, or a morning sorting out the antivirus / boot services and so on. (and then claim windows is stable, and easy to use!!!???).

Things that I find bad with OSX:
1. A bit memory hungry or something perhaps (or maybe stuff like Garageband needs lots!). But overall I can't think of much to fault it on.

Things that I find bad with Linux:
1. I run Debian at work, because for a power user it is without doubt the best distro you can come across.
2. The stable tends to be quite old compared to the unstable, so I run the unstable, and you get problems (upgrade stuff breaks other stuff on some occaisions).
3. Linux kernel 2.6 has seemed to me to be fairly unstable (functionality changing, not crashing) over the course of my using it, so I think it should have been kept at 2.5 for a while (odd number means unstable).
4. I haven't been able to get the slickness of the auto-inserted CD bringing up an Icon like it did with say mandrake (I haven't spent any time looking into this either), but I live with this for the massive other benefits I get of running Debian.
5. Bootsplash and hibernate not part of kernel yet, still add-on projects. (and Bootsplash seems to be hard to get running, but it does seem to have amazing capabilities).

FreeBSD/netBSD/openBSD ups/downs:
1. Boot up process seems more than a little complicated.
2. The partition management is very good.
3. Compares reasonably with Linux.
4. If only there was a Debian for FreeBSD.

Hurd:
1. Install still hard.
2. Server model is hard to get your head around.

Solaris: yawn.

Posted by: hipparchus2000   Posted on: 06/08/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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