Originally posted by Vorlin
But for the record, I can't stand MS, never have liked them, and never will stand up for anything on their product line. If I got a buck for every Windows error I've ever encountered that *I* couldn't fix because it was bad code, etc...I could pay rent for a year I bet. That's just sorry work and I'd be miserable if I were a programmer for MS that had code in there...*nix is MUCH better. Then again, unix has been around since the 60's, hehe...
I hear you, man. I was raised on Windows all the way back to 3.1, which was actually stable. When 95 and 98 came out, I didn't know any better than to trust them, and didn't even know Linux existed. Then came Windows ME. I ran it for about a month before it finally died completely. Until then, it was crashing about 3 times an HOUR. I hated it. NOTHING worked on it. Still, I knew nothing of the alternative operating systems, and switched to Windows 2000. Even that was crashing on an average of once a day. About 6 months ago, I finally jumped into the Linux world with Red Hat 7 on a junker box. I loved it. I loved it so much, that machine is sitting as a web server now. I just switched to SuSE 7.3 on my main box yesterday, and despite compatibility issues, I'm much happier on it than I have ever been on any of the recent Windows releases.