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Well, screw Linux. Less stable on my laptop than XP Home was. And guess what? My unopened restore CDs didn't work. SO, now I'm running a pirated XP Pro. I figure that if they're not going to actuallly give me a working copy like they said they would when I bought the computer, I have no problem with it.
Now if anyone could tell me why both IE and Mozilla are refreshing absurdly choppily when I scroll...
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Linux was unstable? What did you do to it? The only time I had Linux crash on me was when I was running it w/ an unsupported sound card and tried playing MP3s.
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Well, the first two times it froze in the middle of install. Didn't like my wireless card being in the slot. Then I was setting up a simple network between my desktop and laptop so I could restore my documents, and after that, Gnome didn't work any more. Then I couldn't create new users. During all this, after every reboot it hung on the "COMPAQ" screen while it's reading the BIOS, and it had a nasty habit of shutting down at random.
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Omega...? God no longer sends plagues of frogs. Now it's unstable operating systems.
Perhaps an atonement is in the cards.
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Like I said, the only times I've personally seen Linux have problems is w/ hardware. I'm sure you haven't used it long enough to somehow screw up the software. Are you sure all your hardware is supported?
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Although to be fair, XP is pretty hard to crash. I've got PSP 7 to crash on it, but I was doing about 50,000 things at once, and set it doing a large image processing thing, and blah blah blah.
Isn't running a pirated copy of XP, y'know, stealing? And isn't that, like, anti-Christian?
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It's probably pirating from a strict legal perspective. BUT, MS does owe me an XP OS, seeing as my restore CDs were frelled, so it all comes out about even.
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Wow. I hope God buys your reasoning, even if no-one else does.
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