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*

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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. :-)