Microsoft starts supporting, er, Linux (Register) [LWN.net]

Microsoft starts supporting, er, Linux (Register)

Posted Apr 4, 2006 14:21 UTC (Tue) by mikec (guest, #30884)
In reply to: Microsoft starts supporting, er, Linux (Register) by dw
Parent article: Microsoft starts supporting, er, Linux (Register)

I cannot speak for servers, other than anecdotal evidence of relatives who can (my servers are all linux), but I can speak to the desktop world as I keep a windows box around for gaming.

I make a point of minimizing the software I install on it (other than games and security updates) and it still finds a way to crash about 1 of 3 times it is booted.

It is a dual boot and its linux counterpart often runs for weeks at a time without issue on the same hardware.

So, trolls or no trolls, windows still has a long way to go before I see bluescreens less often than I see "OOPS" - Not to mention that I can count the number of "OOPS" that required a reboot or stopped work in the last 5 years on my left hand while the same "left hand" metric requires something more like a few weeks on windows. It is _more_ stable than it used to be, but saying its rocky days are over is a bit hasty...

I would offer a hypothesis (maybe someone can prove it already) that Linux now has more "person"-power and hours supporting it than windows does which makes this not surprising (even ignoreing the benifits of open/peer review... )

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