snorg wrote:Not to start a flame war, but I can't remember the last time Windows just
crashed on me. Individual apps, yes but the OS doesn […]
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Not to start a flame war, but I can't remember the last time Windows just
crashed on me. Individual apps, yes but the OS doesn't blue screen all
the time like it used to. That was a valid complaint in the 95/98/Me days, though.
I like Macs as well but to say you can't get work done on a windows system is
silly.
Well, a blue screen can only happen with kernel mode device drivers. IE drivers that need low level access to their corresponding hardware. Windows itself is pretty bomb proof and has been, it's faulty memory and shitty 3rd party drivers usually that brings it down. A normal user mode application that fucks up will just crash its own space, that's why we have program crashes and blue screens, one happens in user space and the other happens in kernel space and that's fatal. I just resolved a BSOD issue a little while ago. The dump was pointing to some bcmndis something .sys driver. BCM aka Broadcom, the chip my usb wireless adapter used. The driver date? 2008. Checked to see if any updated drivers existed, but nope, the entire product was discontinued and didn't receive driver updates. I unloaded the driver and threw the adapter out the window and haven't had a BSOD since.