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Originally Posted by Shtaaf
I am pretty sure we all know this for fact when talking OS stability... Woo Unix is stable, but WHEN it crashes while in say Level 7 Mode... good luck if your data is still their after you spend 30minutes rebuilding the directory structure... If your MS system freezes up, you reboot and your back and running in under a minute with all your data still there.
Stability and Userfriendly don't go hand in hand... MS is robust and unstable, Unix is Stable but fragile... Sorry my choice is MS.
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Sorry but I can't agree with any of that.
I'm not entirely sure what Level 7 Mode is but linux doesn't crash outright. Apps fail sure but unless you've had a major hardware failure the OS won't go belly up. Hardware failure will adversely affect Windows every bit as much in terms of data loss.
Linux is not at all fragile, you can put it through hell if you choose to. Mine has recovered from a great many things. The Journaled filesystems it uses are designed to recover from serious power outage type crashes. I don't really think you can say the same of a crapped out array in Windows land and one thing is definate. If your windows box is not behaving it's "back to the drawing board", rebuild the whole thing from scratch or an image. You just can't get into it to find out what went wrong. At least with Linux you can fault find and fix.
On top of that we're talking about vanilla windows here. How exactly are you going to fix a problem with the storage on a device that for all intents and purposes is closed source? No one knows how it works and if the little UI MS give youto run the thing can't fix a problem (and I doubt MS could anticipate every possible problem), then kiss goodbye to all your data when it reverts to "Unrecoverable error, we suggest you format the entire storage device and start again".
Cheers,
Arkay.