[clug] Why switch to Linux?

[freegazer]

I hate to harp on this but I strongly feel that the "recoverable" nature of
Linux is as important if not more so than the "stable nature" mentioned
earlier

Simon

On 11/9/06, freegazer <freegazer at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 11/9/06, Chris Smart <chris at kororaa.org> wrote:
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> > Drew Parsons wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 14:28 +1100, Robert Edwards wrote:
> > >> Chris Smart wrote:
> > >>> A section "Why switch to Linux?" was proposed and I like the idea so
> > I'm
> > >>> asking people to make some suggestions on reasons why people should
> > >>> switch to Linux. Can you help?
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> > >> 2) robustness (rarely crashes)
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> > > To be honest I find this statement is extremely deceptive.
> > >
> > > Between firefox, evolution, open office and power management, I find
> > my
> > > laptop running Linux crashes a *lot*.  Doesn't always freeze the
> > entire
> > > system up (then again sometimes it does), but a crash is a crash.
> > The cause of your crashes might not be Linux, though. It might be bad
> > hardware, overheating or memory issues? Have you had the laptop
> > thoroughly tested? Just a thought, I find that Linux rarely crashes for
> > me.
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> > I agree though that the wording could change in that crashing rarely
> > takes out your whole computer like under Windows.
> >
> > What do others think?
> >
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> perhaps a better slant for this would be something that emphasis the
> recoverable nature of the OS/Distro's
> while alluding to the stability. there is also an oppurtunity to sling mud
> at the "troubleshooters" etc but I get
> the impression that this is less about mud slinging and more about
> pointing out positives. An example would be:
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> Due to its very nature Linux provides a much more stable platform as in
> the much less frequent case
> of an application ether misbehaving or crashing the Operating System
> itself rarely fails completely. This
> results in your computer normally remaining active and usable. Often these
> situations can be resolved
>  quite quickly using the tools available with the Operating System itself
> (rather than purchased in addition
> to the Operating System itself). Also due to the way Linux works you
> normally find messages that
> don't normally require years of training to either find or decipher that
> tell you what went wrong.
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> Simon
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