T wrote:

On 03/11/2015 03:18 PM, Slimer wrote:
Instability however, is another issue. Windows 7 is NOT unstable.

Hi Slimer,

Ask yourself why Windows 7 has restore points and roll back
features. This is an attempt to control the inherent
instability of the OS. Linux and OSx don't have such an
animal because they don't need it.

On win7 I use restore point with 3rd party software in case the vendor
screwed up royally. It is much easier to use a restore point than to go in
there to remove the trailings left all over the hard drive.
On OS X, I use Time Machine to restore a machine to an earlier point in time
and can be quite selective in what you want restored... in case a user
somehow screws up his user account directory in a terminal by typing in rm
*, you can just go into Time Machine and just click on the User/name and
click restore.
Same thing for all earlier computer systems, such as VMS, backing up files
to a tape transport.


I control my "roll back" instability problems on my Windows OS'es
by making a gold copy of my VM's (virtual Machines) hard drives
and just restoring the whole thing when I need to. And I have
two separate VM's of XP (also unstable) to cope if I am in a
hurry and have customers waiting on me. I have no such problem
with my Linux base system or any of my Linux VM's.


When I was using OpenSuse 11.3, for some reason during updates to software,
it couldn't find the repository, but continued on anyway. It thoroughly
hosed the system and wouldn't boot.
That's when I ditched it for RedHat.
I still use Solaris 10 in a VM because of their superior compilers.
One issue with gcc (current) is that it won't compile older software that
uses this piece of code at Global scope:

FILE *Output = stdout;

It don't like it, but Suns C compiler handles it.
Neither does MS C compiler like it.
Neither does OS X compiler like it.

Other than that, I like Visual Studio the best.