OSX crash at glasto...

[Participant]

XP is a reliable OS if you know what your doing with it

Exactly, he's obviously either another level of n00b or a Steve Jobs lover going to all that trouble to deliberately crash Windows .

 

[dirtydog]

I've never used a PC without it crashing.

2000/ME/XP/XP SP2/Vista.

All of em crashed at least once in a major way that required a system reinstall.

BS tbqfh.

 

[chimaera]

PEBKAC?

Definitely...

 

[Sone]

Ditto

In fact, I've been using NT/ME/2k/XP for years on years and I don't think my own workstation has ever crashed on me, at work or at home.

that one word makes you a blatant liar

 

[dirtydog]

PEBKAC?

I had to google it but yes Either that or BSBKAC...

 

[Bes]

My IBM T60 lappie running XP Pro has BSOD'ed twice.
My ancient PC running Arch Linux has never ever ever crashed.

Linux > *.

 

[FreeStream]

BS tbqfh.

Well sorry but thats my experience.

Windows 98 + 2000 on a Dell which somehow buggered itself up at a boot

ME, had a mates PC go 2nd ever boot otherwise stable system

XP/XP2, AMD 64 System, was fine for about 3 months (and I keep systems cleaned and running smooth as possible) until one day it just BSOD at the login screen


This Intel PC however, hasn't BSODed that I can remember actually, it has crashed and locked tho at stock but its been fine overclocked


Still love OS X tho

 

[Gilly]

that one word makes you a blatant liar

Seriously. I used it for a couple of months during a transition between main rigs and it was fine

I had to google it but yes Either that or BSBKAC...

 

[NerveAgent]

My windows XP has not crashed once since it was installed (jan 2003 as far as I can tell). I think the view that windows is unstable is massively outdated.

 

[PiKe]

It's the hardware at fault usually, substandard hardware has given windows the rep it doesn't deserve.

 

[krisboats]

My version of windows has been pretty problem free. It once locked up and needed a restart, but guess what i was doing at the time....


....Importing songs into itunes, which locked up, told me it had encountered a serious error and wouldn't close

Other than that its been fine.

 

[JonnyGLC]

Suprisingly for me Vista is the most stable OS that i've ever used, not had a single problem with it.

 

[cymatty]

XP has been super stable for me it is all the 3rd party applications that windows has that coasue the problem.

Although saying that my Ubuntu install is just as stable.

 

[lemonkettaz]

If people know what they are doing they can have an easy ride on OSX or Windows.

My XP on the laptop is stable and rarely crashes.

Yet you see Windows on a pc where they havent got a clue and its got a million toolbars on the web browsers, a desktop full of trial versions and a serious messed up startup where a million cheap crappy programs are running because people just click yes to anything.

Then they start moaning about Windows

 

[Lunatic Dreyfus]

My windows XP has not crashed once since it was installed (jan 2003 as far as I can tell). I think the view that windows is unstable is massively outdated.

I hate to agree and heap praise on M$ (ooh, I feel so rebellious using the $ sign ) but XP has been rock solid for me for years. I can honestly say I've seen no more than 3 STOP or Operating system lock ups, and none since late 2004. These occurred back in my upgrade-aholic days; I've now gone straight.

XP's stability is one of the main reasons why I simply haven't felt the need to upgrade to Vista.

I used to be a Mac head back in 2000/01 and had OS 8.6 and 9.1 lock up on me numerous times. As a result I've never really bought the idea that Mac's are any more reliable than Windows equipped PC's. Maybe back in Win 95 (*shudders*) and early 98 days this would have been the case, but with XP, nah, I don't buy it.

 

[AJUK]

That looks well fake to me. Anyway, if it is real, it would have just been the application that crashed and not the whole OS, the dock is still showing and a proper kernal panic is a black dialog box in the middle of the screen.

Not that I can be sure, I have never seen one in the four years of Mac use.

 

[Participant]

There are so many other factors determining OS stability apart from the code of the OS that it's practically impossible to measure and define the stability of an OS. Subjective user opinions are the least reliable of all methods and may depend on all manner of things such as what hardware they had installed, how much spyware they'd collected, the quality of the hardware used, etc etc ad infinitum.

Macs still suck though

 

[Duke]

Yet you see Windows on a pc where they havent got a clue and its got a million toolbars on the web browsers, a desktop full of trial versions and a serious messed up startup where a million cheap crappy programs are running because people just click yes to anything.

Then they start moaning about Windows

Yeah very true. I generally spend a few hours a day cleaning up systems with that sort of crap on it.

 

[lemonkettaz]

Yeah very true. I generally spend a few hours a day cleaning up systems with that sort of crap on it.

Someone asked me once, i took one look at their internet explorer and said .... format!

Just cant be bothered sorting out messes like it.. in a understandable form i said it was like "how clean is your house".. that is what your computer is like.

 

[D.P.]

IN the lab I work in Macs have by far the greatest failure and crash rates. At least a factor of 10-20x more than any other platforms.

Windows crashes the next most frequently, but not too often. he Linux systems almost never crash but it happens.

Our Solaris boxes haven't yet crashed in 4-5 years.