Thanks, Smash!

[wolfwings]

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*

Comments

XP vs. Unix

[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.

Re: XP vs. Unix

[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. :-)