Why partition large HDD?

[d000hg]

No, it is. Fukin awful. Where I work we have the lot, Windows, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Linux, the vast majority of incidents are Windows, reboot, reboot, reboot....

Least (and most boxes) is Solaris, now I have say I am a Solaris bod, but I was prepared to receive Linux as the NKOTB, and HP-UX as the CAD choice, AIX as the banking choice, but it's the Sun boxes that say up, and I'm not totally blinkered, VMS is the OS of choice for me ...

But Windows, Christ....

Isn't it perhaps possible that the only people using *nix OS are the more exoert PC users, while all the inexperienced people are on Windows? That would surely distort things from a support point of view. I don't know many programmers who have problems using Windows, for instance.

[doodab]

the vast majority of incidents are Windows, reboot, reboot, reboot....

Maybe you should work out what is going wrong and fix it rather than just rebooting and hoping?

[TheFaQQer]

Maybe you should work out what is going wrong and fix it rather than just rebooting and hoping?

I tried that with my last Windows system. After god knows how many hours spent trying to work out what was causing it to crash (and the CUK collective betting that it was hardware) I scrapped Windows 7 and installed ubuntu. Since when, there have been no crashes, and no wasted hours fighting the OS.

[doodab]

I tried that with my last Windows system. After god knows how many hours spent trying to work out what was causing it to crash (and the CUK collective betting that it was hardware) I scrapped Windows 7 and installed ubuntu. Since when, there have been no crashes, and no wasted hours fighting the OS.

And no drivers for whatever was causing the problem.

[TheFaQQer]

And no drivers for whatever was causing the problem.

Windows couldn't tell me what the problem was - checked every driver and the OS told me that they were all up to date and working fine.

Switched off every piece of hardware that I could think of, and it still crashed regularly. Disables every service that I could see that I didn't want running - still crashed.

But what does Windows offer that Linux doesn't?

[VectraMan]

But what does Windows offer that Linux doesn't?

Ability to run Windows software?

Linux still won't install on my desktop with RAID disks. Or rather it installs, but won't boot. My post to the Ubuntu forms got zero replies. Clearly nobody has a clue.

Windows 7 worked first time.

After years and years of working on Windows full time, I've virtually never had any significant problem. I'm always mystified by these people that insist it's unreliable and conclude that they must be idiots.

[stek]

Maybe you should work out what is going wrong and fix it rather than just rebooting and hoping?

I'm not in the Windows team but I see the traps.

[stek]

Ability to run Windows software?

Linux still won't install on my desktop with RAID disks. Or rather it installs, but won't boot. My post to the Ubuntu forms got zero replies. Clearly nobody has a clue.

Windows 7 worked first time.

After years and years of working on Windows full time, I've virtually never had any significant problem. I'm always mystified by these people that insist it's unreliable and conclude that they must be idiots.

I agree Windows is fine for the the desktop, but not as a server.

[VectraMan]

I agree Windows is fine for the the desktop, but not as a server.

Well again the Windows 2003 web server Plan B Co. has remote access to has been running absolutely 100% for years. I can believe that when it comes to large scale ultimate performance with a gazillion users and a dedicated team of experts to manage it round the clock, Linux may have an edge, but for most of us the simple GUI configuration of a Windows server is far better.

[doodab]

I agree Windows is fine for the the desktop, but not as a server.

A windows server can be specificied and deployed by someone who thinks it's "easy" cos it's a PC and windows.

Unix boxes are generally set up by more technically competent individuals and hence work well. If the same level of expertise is applied to a windows server it will generally work just as well.