Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:56:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@aracnet.com> To: Tim Ryder <jawse@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: The joys of Windows Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0007181044450.2612-100000@shell1.aracnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20000718165600.13757.qmail@web1304.mail.yahoo.com>
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> I dont see why everyone here hates windows. I am a Simple. Windows (no matter what version,) crashes reliably on me every three months. Twice now upon reinstalling Windows it has thought that it's smarter then me, and decided to mess up my partitions, loosing several gigs of stuff that I was either in the middle of backing up, rearranging, or currently working on. In addition a full blown Windows reload with drivers and software usually takes an entire weekend as I trouble shoot conflicts. FreeBSD takes a couple of hours, 30 minutes if I don't recompile the kernal. Just today a customer called me because Windows 2000 and Acess 2000 want to convert her Acess 98 databae, but it fails to do so for some unkown reason. Until that works, the customer is not able to work at all. Of course, Microsoft's tech support has been less then helpful. I hate the fact that certain peices of my hardware that worked just fine under Windows 3.11 AND had driver support for 95 no longer work at all under 98. Even with several hours of tweaking. (My ASUS 875 SCSI card based on the NCR-875 chipset which is supposedly supported by 98 will not work at all. It's now running under FBSD 4.0 just fine.) In short, Microsoft products may work for you... but as a Tech Support person, I don't want to spend all my free time working on my computers... I want to spend it playing! Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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