Rant: I Hate XP; What a Piece of Shit!

ArtWilliams · 2005-11-06, 10:12 AM

So last night I spent a few hours working on my son's PC which runs Windows XP. Seems he keeps getting a "Serious Error Has Occured" message whenever he starts it up and then the system restarts itself within minutes of the error. So the virus checker is up to date, all the Service Packs have been applied; now what to do? It also works fine in "safe mode with networking" so I am stumped.

After doing research on Google, it seems there must be a really old driver which is conflicting with other drivers or systems files. So now I'll got to do major research on the drivers to figure out which ones are causing the problem. Check! Upgrade! Remove! Well, all I can say is that XP is one big hunk of shit!

I've been running Mandravia Linux on my desktop for almost two years now and never -- yes never -- has the operating system gone down. I've had individual programs crap out but the OS has always been there.

I switched after I was getting about 10-15 virus infected emails a day! I knew that eventually I would open one by accident and potentially have my PC ruined. I've never had a virus with Linux and even if I received one there is not much likely hood I would open it because of the way the OS is designed. [You need a special root password to do important stuff , anyways I've got a Linux virus checker too.] I bought a program called Crossover Office which allows me to use some MS Windows stuff I need like Dreamweaver and Photoshop. Oh yeah, did I say that Linux was free as in the source code is available to all and you can download it or get it from a magazine CD/DVD for free? You can even run Windows along side of Linux though I stopped doing that on my system a long time ago.

I am a happy man with Linux and I will never give Bill Gates another dime for the garbage this man puts out!!!

Thank you for your time. Okay I am done.

---art

2005-11-06, 10:12 AM	#1
ArtWilliams You can now put whatever you want in this space :) Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 6,244	Rant: I Hate XP; What a Piece of Shit! So last night I spent a few hours working on my son's PC which runs Windows XP. Seems he keeps getting a "Serious Error Has Occured" message whenever he starts it up and then the system restarts itself within minutes of the error. So the virus checker is up to date, all the Service Packs have been applied; now what to do? It also works fine in "safe mode with networking" so I am stumped. After doing research on Google, it seems there must be a really old driver which is conflicting with other drivers or systems files. So now I'll got to do major research on the drivers to figure out which ones are causing the problem. Check! Upgrade! Remove! Well, all I can say is that XP is one big hunk of shit! I've been running Mandravia Linux on my desktop for almost two years now and never -- yes never -- has the operating system gone down. I've had individual programs crap out but the OS has always been there. I switched after I was getting about 10-15 virus infected emails a day! I knew that eventually I would open one by accident and potentially have my PC ruined. I've never had a virus with Linux and even if I received one there is not much likely hood I would open it because of the way the OS is designed. [You need a special root password to do important stuff , anyways I've got a Linux virus checker too.] I bought a program called Crossover Office which allows me to use some MS Windows stuff I need like Dreamweaver and Photoshop. Oh yeah, did I say that Linux was free as in the source code is available to all and you can download it or get it from a magazine CD/DVD for free? You can even run Windows along side of Linux though I stopped doing that on my system a long time ago. I am a happy man with Linux and I will never give Bill Gates another dime for the garbage this man puts out!!! Thank you for your time. Okay I am done. ---art