by meh on Sat May 08, 2004 5:11 pm
[s]Pilmour Boy wrote on 17:23, 8th May 2004:
What are you talking about?
If the programme crashes on any operating system, it crashes. Are you really saying that if it'd been on Windows or Linux all of the stuff would have been magically saved?
No I'm saying that statistically speaking, windows or linux/unix based machines crash less. I thought it was kind of obvious myself.
Nothing to do with saving and everything to do with reliability. For example, my unix based lab machine has never crashed, nor have any of my mates, and my xp pc has never crashed since it was installed. However whenever I have to use macs they have a tendency to freeze right in the middle of something - not all the time obviously but occasionally is more than on the other OS's.
To say something like "oh I lost all my work as it crashed, but at least I don't have windows" is just silly - just a pop at an operating system you don't like.
Personally I have nothing against any of the above mentioned OS's but I do think reliability when it comes to not crashing is better with unix/linux or xp.