warble said:
Come on, man. I've been running Windows XP Pro for roughly a year and a half, and I haven't had any show stopping issues and the install has been very stable for me. Your statement sounds like it's coming from an inexperienced user who doesn't know how to properly maintain a PC. Take that as you will.
No, I'm not a Microsoft lover as I've certainly had my share of issues in the past with both MS OS's and MS apps, but from where I'm sitting here, I don't think XP is that terrible.
I don't think I'm an inexperience user, I've been repairing & troubleshooting PC's for years and years on going, certified. When I was working as a sr. tech at Lone Star Computers' over in DFW area, I've seen over hundreds and hundreds of computers come and go, because of windows. Maybe you are one of the lucky ones, or you simply don't have much on your windows installed to cause any problems. It's hard to believe, you haven't had to restart your computer once, because it either locked up, or your internet explorer gave an error. Also, I didn't say that Xp crashes ALL THE TIME, but it does crash more then mac os does and XP doesn't crash like daily or anything, I was stating that basically the frequency of crashes that happen, say in one year, is a whole lot more then one that's running a mac os.
In a couple months, an OS should not crash even once. Any more then twice is to much. The only stable windows is windows 2000/NT. Try running a server on a windows xp machine for a whole year, and have no problems at all. Also, ANY fair share of problems is problems, regardless of how you look at it. It sounds like your just over looking any problems that you had with microsoft. I've seen Linux user's run their computer for a year or more, with it being on all the time, and not crash once, not lag because of 2 many app's on, not dump it's system memory & cause crashes etc.
BTW just take a look at this forum, there are more problems w/ people using windows period, that can't get something to work, or is doing that, or whatever, hardware/software etc. Granted mac's are not the perfect machine either, but it's more reliable then pc's