Tuesday, June 5, 2007

linux vs. windows

More and more often, I find myself using Linux over windows. I have not timed it, but it takes about 15 seconds for linux to boot. With windows, it takes 2 minutes or more, when it boots correctly. Right now, windows is having an issue with my choice of anti-virus, and the program manages to crash drwatson. So i have to end drwatson forcibly, before the boot will finish. Linux just boots, and I don't have to wait. Then, the programs rarely crash in linux, where as a program crashes in windows at least once a day.

On the other hand, all of my hardware works correctly in windows. While in linux, I still have issues with some hardware and its 3rd party drivers. Sometimes, I just have to boot to windows. With luck, some of the programmers out there will engineer drivers that work better some time. Most of the malfunctioning hardware is not necessary, but handy to have working. We'll see how it goes...

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