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@omni Seems, say the magic word and Windows will BSOD to prove your point :/ A memory_management error, though... that doesn't sound good, especially when a google search calls RAM into the question ><;
Wednesday, 26-Dec-12 03:56:46 UTC from web-
@neurario Well, I have to be fair here, Windows' BSODs sometimes have uses. For example, when my power supply was dying, Windows was constantly giving BSODs. Linux, however, kept running as if everything was fine. Albeit crashes aren't good, at least Windows helped me figure out something was wrong :P
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@neurario How? By hiding most debugging information and making errors even more unclear so people can look at a sad smiley? I don't really consider that an improvement.
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@neurario The old ones did so as well, they just contained a hell of a lot more text so it might be a bit harder to find the term to search for if you didn't know where to look, so I can see how you can consider it an improvement. The real improvement would be no crashes, though :P
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@omni Look... as much as I'd like to consider myself technologically literate, I guess it's true that I'm not to the point where I could configure more advanced stuff. I agree that Linux is a better kernel than Windows. However my interests dictate that I stay with Windows, at least until I learn how to set up a real workflow for my Let's Play recording, maybe my music mixing but I'd probably have to move on from that, and just gaming. One of the things that I'm waiting on Steam for Linux for.
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@neurario Also, I think you're literate enough. At least a lot more than most people. However, you don't need to "configure more advanced stuff" to use Linux. That's only if you like using distributions like Arch/Parabola/Gentoo. Most distributions are way "simpler" :P
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@omni I suppose so. Let's just say I don't have the CLI stuff down pat. I can do it, but I still usually rely on documented instructions to get stuff done... xD
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@omni For things other than the usual "list directories, edit a file, pipe this thing into another thing"... :P
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@neurario You won't even need that knowledge if you choose to use something simpler like Linux Mint :P
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@neurario (Also, I didn't really know about piping until... a year and a half after I started using Linux? XD)
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@omni I learned more about it this year. Some of our IT units at TAFE (Technical and Further Education) involved Linux stuff, so we had PuTTY and VMware Player to learn about that
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@omni And yeah, I'll admit games and things like Adobe Premiere Pro (Structured projects <3) are what keep me on Windows. What I might do is make my laptop a Linux lappy, I've been meaning to make that a "work" machine anyway, so I can learn to use Linux properly as well as learn to do some programming or whatnot :3
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