Patch and Patch Again
Microsoft is always patching Windows. What some people don't know is that they often don't get it right the second time either.
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actually I've found linux to
actually I've found linux to be even worst about patches and updates then windows. I've never had to rewrite my xorg.conf from a command prompt in windows after an update I didn't even know happened. Nine times out of ten, a system upgrade will break my display, my sound, my internet (try reinstalling wpa files when you can't connect to your wpa wifi), or a combination of all of the above. Windows upgrades may break some programs, linux upgrades have the bad habit of turning my computer into a nice paperweight. In linux's defence, I do use some pretty complicated hardware setups, but I don't have the problems with comparable windows ones.Are you from Microsoft?
Are you from Microsoft?Win-Patches
Beside showing you as being ignorant and completely without truth, it also shows that you are a MS fanboy.I'm sorry to inform you that you can't pull that crank on people these days. Yet again, maybe that's why you keep trying. People know that GNU/Linux is ahead of Windows on every front on both the desktop-, and,for sure, server-vice. Crying your eyes out over being beaten do not help you. Just make software the Linux-way in order to compete.
MS Patch
MicroPatch had to say something in MS defense. The reason he doesn't know the difference in update and upgrade is that MS doesn't have a "free" button to do an upgrade.Haha, very troll,
Eh, do you use Linux or not? If yes, why? If not, what ARE you talking about?Kubuntu is now a much better experience; overall.
Nothings perfect of course; but your answer, is to simply buy a PC and with "Linux" already installed upon it. Most people though, are shocked; at the zero driver work needed, with a Kubuntu Install CD, for one example.Haha funny
#1.. windows don't have xorg.. At least you have the option to edit xorg.conf instead of the BSOD cycle..2. You should try to switch distro's if your having problems like that..
Used Linux for 10+ years and only have minor problems with upgrades... Usually caused by a asm compiler not updated.. Other than that never had issues even with backward compat.. The same programs i used from the 2.0 kernel and libs still run in the current 2.6 (except for ippl which was just a recompile)...
Updates or upgrades
Anonymous, you appear to be talking about upgrades when the article is about updates. They are two very different things.Not so fast.
No, he used the wrong word. He did in fact mean "updates" and those can and do sometimes break things in Linux. Linux has quite a lot of problems, but trolls like Stephen will never provide you with an objective view of any OS.Linux is more secure than Windows overall
Windows and Linux have a fair amount of patches, but let's keep this in mind. Windows patches are mainly for the operating system, and MS Office. Linux patches are for every piece of software in the Linux distribution, which is a huge list of software. So, it is difficult to scale just operating system patches from Windows to Linux. If you were able to narrow down patches just for the operating systems, you would soon realize that the number of patches released by Microsoft for Windows greatly outnumbers those for Linux.Personally, I too use Linux solely. Why? Because it is more secure to start with than Windows. Microsoft will make whatever claims they can, to sell their product. But the fact of the matter is Windows is still riddled with security holes all of the time. The U.S. Department of Defense just released articles (you can search Google on this), recommending the use of Linux everywhere because it is open source and proven to be more secure than Windows.
http://members.apex-internet.com/sa/windowslinux
wow, what are you doing
Wow,I can't imagine what you are doing - are you running experimental kernels, rolling your own distributions or choosing obscure, poorly documented and poorly supported distributions?
I have installed hundreds of Linux servers and dozens of Linux workstations. I have never had the kinds of mass and continuous, ongoing problems you have described. I do tend to stick to main stream distributions though. I suggest you run Ubuntu for your Desktop. It is stable, reliable and has provided me on several personal workstations plus a number of friends workstations (even extremely un computer savy user) with reliable platform.
The patches just work. I don't hesitate to install them anymore - not even on servers. With Windows, on a server especially, unless I absolutely have to have it and it solves an identifiable issue I am experiencing, I don't patch. It is just far to dangerous.
It's *possible*,....
if he has a particularly unfortunate choice of laptop, with a poorly-supported propriety/closed-source wi-fi chip under ndis, a graphics card dependent on a proprietary driver (or that particular, embedded graphics chip that's had an oddly poor and weirdly inconsistent driver from intel), and a distro that doesn't mesh well with his hardware.Remember, with some distros, dependence on a proprietary graphics driver will require redoing the graphics driver installation with any kernel update. One of Ubuntu's "innovations" was to automate this.
Call it a "perfect storm". I can see a newbie with just one system having these problems -- especially if he get's some bad advice on dealing with the problems. Upgrades shouldn't be so problematic -- but it's certainly an atypical case (and I've heard and seen *plenty* of equivilent Windows