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Well... at a bit of prodding that I don't think

smashwolf will quite understand how he did... I've gotten every last trace of Microsoft OFF my machine, only CD-R's in case I need the files, and Slackware 8.0 running smoothly on the same machine.

And ya' know what? I take back ever nice thing I ever said about Windows XP. I thought it was stable. It wasn't. THIS is stable. The sheer fact I could get a BSOD on XP without working too hard should have been a clue, I was just fooling myself.

Still... pardon me while I revel in the unaddulterated speed! *bouncy*

Current Mood: accomplished

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From:

lionman.livejournal.com

MicroSoft software is like a virus. You just -think- you got rid of it. It's just waiting to get you, my little pretty!

From:

wolfwings.livejournal.com

Not this time. *grins* FreeDOS, flashed a new version of the BIOS into memory, clean-formatted the HD from a bootable CD-R I burnt myself. :-)

From:

lionman.livejournal.com

And just where did you "clean burn" this CD-R from? Surely it wasn't a machine that once had a MicroSoft Product on it, was it? *gasp!* ;-)

From:

wolfwings.livejournal.com

Nope. Downloaded and burned on one of the Linux routers we buy-and-build from scratch, that we equip with CD-RW drives in case someone needs a driver for a network card we loan them or needs 1.37GB of digital pictures from a small backpack FULL of 32-128MB camera cards compiled for them. (Yes, we've had both of the above happen, the latter at regular times, though only once that HUGE a collection. :-)

From:

lionman.livejournal.com

That's pretty crazy.

I stand corrected.

From:

shunyata.livejournal.com

... for stability, Unix wins, no contest. However, XP is a huge improvement to previous incations of that virus released by Microshaft. Personally, I haven't crashed it once yet, but I've only had it for about a month. XP is stable if compared to Win95 & 98. Working as video game tech support I've come to love XP's compatability modes. As always, if you are doing lots of video gaming, Winblows still holds the main market. If you -must- use a M$ product, I would recommend XP. If you don't need those fuckers, get Unix, a real OS.

From:

wolfwings.livejournal.com

And this, specifically, is why I ditched XP. Yes, it was great for all those reasons... but for someone that's not using mainstream hardware (dual-CPU rig, non-ATI, non-nVidia video, etc) XP had a horrible habit of, even with the newest drivers, going into a tailspin.

Yes, XP is wonderful... for a MicroSoft product. It's taking me a little tinkering to get the Linux system the way I like it too, but it's still... just amazing that things I was worried about doing before, wondering if my hardware was damaged, or a CPU was failing from the oddity of the BSOD's I'd get... For a random note, Quake 3 Arena would BSOD, and that's a very well-tested piece of software generally, which was making me wonder about my hardware.

No problems since switching over, and getting WineX going to run Windows stuff. >^.^<

Though I am setting aside a partition to slide DosEMU and WineX at to keep things nicely seperated out. :-)

From:

darkkelsk.livejournal.com

Heheh, reminds me I must get rid of this window ME

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Heheh, reminds me I must get rid of this window ME <o.o> it's really poor (you got any idea what is best for graphic and 3d programs?). Oh I'm Kelsk btw, nice to meet you. -^^- I'm kinda just looking for people who go to Feral by searching LJ for there s/n. O_o no idea if ya the same WolfWings tho.