Re: Seeing VERSIONINFO under Vista?

In article news:<lseu43pipdqngiqongtcko2lhdc3j0kmje@xxxxxxx>, MrAsm wrote:
... since Win2K and exspecially WinXP, Windows robustness and quality
is very very high ...

I've never had a BSOD in any NT version that couldn't be traced to faulty
hardware or buggy third-party device drivers.

... (on the other side, I find now Linux-based distributions unstable
and with no efficient plug-and-play and hard to configure).

I'm using linux more-and-more because I HATE the way MS is going with
Windows: too much pointless eye-candy, activation, DRM. I'd throw it out
tomorrow if I didn't need it for my client work.

Things like plug-and-play are getting much better in linux, and seem to me
to be handled in a much more flexible way than on Windows. I mostly use
Gentoo, which is a fairly tech-friendly user-hostile distro (as these
things go), but recent releases from distros like Ubuntu and Mandriva have
been really very easy to set up -- even for completely non-technical users
-- on anything but the wackiest or most bleeding-edge hardware.

However, we're straying off-topic a bit here ...

Cheers,
Daniel.


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