Good Bye Gnome, Hello KDE, I hope

Occam's Razor applies here.

On a particular box Linux is unstable but Windows 98 is stable. Why?

Is it more probable that thousands of other installations of that same Linux distro version are also unstable and the users are lying about the stablility?

OR

Is it more probable that the particular computer has odd or flakey hardware or some other issue that the particular Linux distro version does not handle well?

There is some flakey or poorly documented hardware, especially in some older PCs, that just don't run Linux correctly. IMO Linux actually pushes the hardware harder than Win98 ever will. Marginal chips or vendors that won't release required information make it hard to write good drivers for some hardware.

OTOH, it could be something else. :^)

Alan

-------Original Message-------
From: Tom Achtenberg <TomA@fh.org>
Sent: 06/12/03 01:08 PM
To: "'plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us'" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Subject: RE: Good Bye Gnome, Hello KDE, I hope

>
> Phil, I had the same problems with my RH 7.3 box. It was much less stable
than my Windows 98 box! I finally gave up. I'm now trying Mandrake 9.1.
It took 4 days and several attempts to get the install completed without
errors. (Found the disk 1 iso on the Hawaii mirror is bad too.) I haven't
had much time to work with it yet, but it has been a disappointment too.
Mandrake update doesn't work to start with. The whole task bar at the
bottom of the screen keeps disappearing too. Only way to get it back is to log
off and log back on. This same box would run for weeks on Win 98 with no
errors. I have not even tried to connect to my file server or printers yet.
If I cannot do it without manually editing files I'll probably just put
Windows back on and forget about Linux for a desktop.