From: pdivine@unixg.ubc.ca (Patrick Divine) Subject: Re: NT vs Linux (was: Re: truth or dare) Date: 8 Jul 1993 04:35:16 GMT
In article <32as12AR67529@lambada> steve.mcmahon@lambada.oit.unc.edu (Steve McMahon) writes:
>pn002b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Peter C. Norton) wrote:
>for help, all I got was one unenthusuastic reply. I wasted a week
>chasing the problem, and replaced every imaginable piece of hardware
>in my system -- to no avail. Finally I gave up on it and purchased
>Windoze. I had been using linux since 0.12 and X since obz first
>ported it to linux.
well, I was called over to someones house to fix a friggin' Sierra Game
today because for some reason all of the windoze drivers/stacker/crap/etc.
was eating up the standard stupid 640K base ram + stacker was reporting
twice as much space on the drive then what was really available. It took
a lot of weeding through the system deleting unwanted windoze apps to
free up disk space to run this thing. then I had to go in and make a boot
disk to free up the cluttered programs installed in the autoexec and config.
pretty degrading service call, but that's what you can expect when the people
you are dealing with are running microsoft products. and what type of
service call other then onsite stuff could tell this clueless
person how to fix their computer? I mean, obviously it was a stupid problem,
but this guy uses Pick all the time and doesn't have a clue when it comes
to MS-DOS.
and sure, I have bug problems with linux all the time (I am still weeding
out problems with uux, and tin) .. but when an os is under development you
have to expect things like that.
moral of the story: computers do not do what you want them to do 99% of
the time. The fact that they work at all just boggles my mind.
without trouble shooting, what would we all be doing here?
<weird ranting mode off>
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