Linux vs. Windows ==> Linux: 1, Windows:0
- October 15th, 2008
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You know, I’m sitting here now for more then 3 hours and try to install a Windows XP machine. I wonder, after having Service Pack 3 installed, that no updates (which came after SP3) are applied.
The solution is:
Start -> Run...
net stop wuauserv cd c:\windows\system32 regsvr32 wups2.dll net start wuauserv
Et voila, everything works again….thx Microcruft.
So…you had a problem in Windows. And you were able to fix it. What does this have to do with Linux?
Oh, wait. You’re saying you never have to drop to a prompt to type some arcane command to get things working in Linux? :D
Any by the way, if this comment is ever accepted, your captcha system is quite broken in webkit browsers.
I do lots of stuff on the console…but I never saw an OS != Windows which breaks it’s update system after an security upgrade.
Let’s put it like this :)
\sh
Next time someone asks if their grandma could configure Xorg, remember me to point how MS breaks their own update engine.
3 hours to install XP? You ridiculous twat…… get a life moron.
There is no need to be rude, but to point out the obvious, M$ Sux, even their best OS as of today (XP) is plagued with bugs and vulnerabilities, and yes, it can take you hours to get a box running on M$, be grateful that you choose XP over Vista. Switch to Linux, there’s plenty of distributions (flavors), with different desktop options (gnome, kde, xfce, …), and it runs on very modest computers. Avoid the hassle and move to LINUX it will take you about half an hour to get a Linux box running.
If a Windows machine takes 3 hours to install, you are doing something terribly wrong.
Of course, considering that you are a Linux user, not that there’s anything surprising in that.
Anyway, do you want examples of how the score can look like Linux: 1 Windows: infinity?
I’m a sysadmin not a kid playing with computers…my installations are normally scheduled between 5 to 25 minutes, more or less…installing something manually, and having those difficulties with a simple task like "applying updates", this is wrong.
Well, SP3 is the bug in question. The workaround is documented on the website, I wonder why nobody at Microsoft thought about updating the SP3 package, with the fix applied.
And no, I don’t need examples where windows overrulez linux…I have enough of them at work :)