Re: [school-discuss] BASIC-256, Linux, &c.

[Daniel Villarreal <yclwebmaster@xxxxxxxxx>]

I won't argue that MS OS needs maintenance, but then they all do. I've never heard of anyone accusing MS of "corrupting" hard drives, that's a new one. Anyway, if you're interested in real operating systems, you might try OpenBSD, if you care about quality and attention-to-detail, I would advise you compare the different *BSD's and GNU/Linux OS's to each other. I have relatively few problems with MS Windows 7 Professional 64-bit on an Intel motherboard, with an WD Caviar Black HD, with USB3 issues being my main concern. I have had a few issues with GNU/Linux after updating, that shouldn't happen. If you have consistent problems with MS Windows 7, but GNU/Linux isn't causing any apparent problem, you might check your drivers, BIOS firmware for updates, etc.

regards,

Daniel Villarreal
http://youcanlinux.wordpress.com/

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Christopher Whittum <cdwhittum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Well put, Bull. In my home, we have four computers (two desktops, two laptops). Three of them run (Xubuntu) Linux. My mom's runs Windows 7. Guess which computer racks up the most hours of maintenance time (it's the same one that has the recurring problem you mentioned below).

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... what is being suggested is that windows is notorious for corrupting the hard drive and producing the errors you might be
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My feeling is - get a real operating system that doesn't have those sort of problems. My wife use to use windows and we had that problem every year until she switched to a Mac, and since then we have never had a single problem. Of course I use Linux and don't have the problem as well.
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