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[dolari]

Why is it that just moving a monitor on my system involves ending up having to COMPLETELY reinstall Windows? Every single video and dvd program on my system goes completely haywire, and no matter how many drivers I install, how many settings I change, how many time I reinstall a program, I always end up having to reinstall XP?

That's fucked, for just moving a monitor.

I'm not gonna try to reinstall tonight, or I KNOW I won't get any comics done. Not with the network card busted on the laptop.

And before any of you Linux heads suggest I move to that - make Linux work, first. I'd use it if it wasn't MORE annoying than XP. I swear I need to go back to 98 or even 95....

Comments

Ghost

[iqtech.livejournal.com]

I think we should get together and make an image of your system. It won't make XP any less annoying but it will speed up the process of reinstall if it goes south - or east - or cattywampus.

[missratbat.livejournal.com]

Wow, do you mean just by physically moving the monitor? Freaky. Yet strangely believable.

And - yay - someone else who isn't of the 'Linux is GOD' club. (I completely fail the 'Neutral Point Of View' aspect when I teach Operating Systems.)

Re: Ghost

[soltice.livejournal.com]

Seconded.

[soltice.livejournal.com]

I've had things like that happen to me. Windows will sometimes lose the association with the video card driver, and takes every hardware-dependent application down with it. In the past I've found it actually the fault of the video driver, rather than window's itself. I buy cheap hardware, of course, and thus I'm only asking for trouble. May I ask, do you have a dual monitor setup?

As for linux...

As much as I'm a fan of Alt/OSs, you'll probably have more trouble with one of those than you might expect. Linux doesn't take kindly to hardware changes -- ever. Linux is a great system, but you in turn work for that greatness.

'nix

[lisalees.livejournal.com]

Linux, or any offshoot or descendant of unix is certainly not a consumer-level replacement for the latest product from the evil empire. I install XP on my kids' systems, because they play games, and games mostly aren't available for linux; I install whatever version of Windows will run on the donated computers at the Theatre, because the business software runs under Windows, the volunteers are used to Windows, and the small staff doesn't have time to learn anything new. But the Theatre's web pages are on my GNU/Linux server and my personal machine runs the latest release of Slackware. If one has the time or the inclination to learn about 'nix, which one can do because every bit of it is open and accessible unlike Windows, then it is vastly superior to Windows. I can replace the motherboard in a linux system and it will still boot without needing to be reinstalled. Yes, it will need to be "fiddled with," and I can do that only because I've been using and supporting unix since 1985, but there's just no comparison in terms of reliability. The sad thing is that the actions of Microsoft over the past 20 years have left things in the state they now are in. I also have to run an XP box because drivers for my photo printers aren't available for linux, and that's really f***ed. End of rant. Sorry.

Re: 'nix

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

I've used Linux on and off since 1992, when I got put on a crappy AIX shell. I like Unix, seriously, but more as DOS-type tool. Bump me into a shell, let me mess around in Lynx or Pine...

Using Red Hat 6-9 wasn't bad...but some rather...militant...people were pushing me to use it as a replacement for 98, which wasn't bad when I got my cable modem. I used it as a Bash Shell when I was at work.

But as usual, the militants got louder, the OS didn't get much better, and I knew my "XP really sucks" diatribe would get those militants on my ass again....

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

"May I ask, do you have a dual monitor setup?"

Had. I pretty much gave away my LCD Monitor. And your'e right, it's more than likely the Nvidia card in here barfing up when the monitor sequence gets changed or removed.

"Linux is a great system, but you in turn work for that greatness."

Too true. RPMFIND is your friend. :) Actually, once I got a DOS version of Pine and Lynx, I never really needed Unix again....

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

"Wow, do you mean just by physically moving the monitor? Freaky. Yet strangely believable."

Very believeable. But no, this was taking a digital LCD monitor off and using my analog monitor instead.

"And - yay - someone else who isn't of the 'Linux is GOD' club."

I love Unix...as a temporary replacement for Windows. :) Or when I need a quick bash shell. As for a permanent replacement for Windows...I'll check back in 10 years. :)

[soltice.livejournal.com]

Too true. RPMFIND is your friend. :)

Indeed, although I'm very happy to no longer run an RPM based distro. Emerge on Gentoo Linux is a thing of beauty, but the three day system installation is almost too much to bare...