Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

Now I permanently have the little update system tray icon. I try to update, it fails, I reboot, it says I need an update again.

Yeah I now have both a Win2K and a SuSE Enterprise 9 machine (sep machines, not VMWare, etc) at the office (both get used as "desktops" - the SuSE machine is really a dev server - but does have the whole SuSE KDE thing).

Same exact hardware (Dell - same model - same RAM, etc) - and the SuSE machines kicks the windows machines "arse" in terms of bootup speed, install of updates, stability (uptime and in general) and in my opinion development environment (something about a native Bash shell, native utils like grep, sed, awk, so on - that I much prefer over DOS - or DOS with Cygwin etc).

I find myself using the SuSE machine purely as a "desktop" more and more - usually when the Windows machine is thrashing on some code or saying it needs more updates and needs to be restarted (which seems to be literally 3-4 times a week - I do every update - every time it tells me - well that is when they work ;)).

Linux has always been my preffered platform, for a plethora of reasons, when it comes to servers, and while I have used Linux as a desktop many times over the years (for several years at a previous job it was my only desktop) I still really held that Windows was better. Windows still has some advantages, more software avail, still a bit "cleaner" look and feel, but overall I think Linux on the desktop is presently very good and certainly completely capable.

(Props to SuSE and to KDE - I hadnt used them in a while - SuSE since like 5-6 days, the recent revs of both are OUTSTANDING.)

Eh, I dont really count the "cause its old" thing as an excuse. Its still officially supported (critical updates anyway) and its still blaring at me that it needs updates (its not some random update I went and located and tried to apply against the machines "will"). The updates it blares at me that it needs, should damn well work. Then if they DONT work they shouldnt keep trying every ten minutes. This thing has hosed a ton of computers at my office, they still run, but they all have the little updates icon, whether or not you tried to update, the updates fail, then the machine says it needs rebooted, after reboot it says it needs the same failed update.

Old or not, thats retarded, and all the credit goes to Windows and to MS, credit where due man.

@I'll try to keep my posts more MS negative in the future :P

LOL

Yeah, you do that tough guy.