On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Nikhil Joshi wrote:
I've been using Linux for almost 2 years now. After getting bored of Windows I decided to remove it from my PC.I was running only Red Hat
The way that I see it, is that your reasons for switching to linux in the first place were wrong. If you were bored of windows, chances are you'd get bored of whatever else you tried.
Linux 7.1 when I had a major filesystem crash. I even lost some of important data.
One of my friends suggested that 7.1 had a buggy kernel and I should switch to 6.2 I installed 6.2 and everything was fine until today...
Wrong. The correct thing to do would be to upgrade your kernel. Running up2date would have done that for you. Never ever go back to an older version. Newer versions have bugs fixed.
As far as your initial filesystem crash, do you remember how it happened? Running a journalling file system would have helped you. I run linux in an area (of my office) where there is no UPS. Power failures are frequent. I have never suffered data loss. In fact, the last time I suffered data loss was in early 2000, running RedHat 6.0, again due to repeated power failures.
I logged in just to find that my ncurses libraries had been deleted ! And horror of horrors: my entire rpm database was gone... I did not want any more surprises.
Actually, everything you think was lost would have been in the lost+found directories of the related partitions. You do have separate partitions for binaries and data don't you?
Being frustrated I decided to give myself a break. I removed Linux and now I'm running good ol' Win 98 :-)
Good for you. Back to daily crashes, and restarting everytime you change anything.
Anyone reading this please keep in mind : Curse Windows , Hate Windows ,Kick Windows but never and I say *never* remove Windows. It is the only thing that works for you (period)
Ok, personal experience. I've been using linux for about three years now - exclusively. No problems. My family uses it too. They are not nerds. I have never had a system crash that wasn't related to a power failure (BSES is active in my area), and even then, I have never lost data (it was all found in lost+found).
I've recently had the need to work with windows (a client requires some programming with a specific database).
The first day - I had to reboot 12 times to install all the software (all licenced).
Then, I started my coding. I get database errors. The only way to fix it is to restart windows (no reboot). I have tried everything else.
Programs crash arbitrarily. The system hangs on restart. I get headaches (which miraculously vanish when I switch back to linux).
While windows may be the only thing that works for you, it is the only thing that doesn't work for me. I've been using linux for a long time, and it has served all my purposes, and has *always* worked for me.