Windows is Easier, Just Like Stabbing Your Own Eyeballs is Easier
Lately I've been breaking my own "don't help friends with their Windows PCs" rule. Now I remember why I made that rule in the first place.
You know what the worst part of trying to troubleshoot and fix any Windows PC is? The endless waiting. Waiting for it to reboot. Waiting for hung processes to finish whatever they are doing. Waiting for apps to install or uninstall, and why is that always so dog-slow? For extra amusement, hook up a sniffer like Wireshark or tcpdump just to watch how many Windows apps phone home.
On a nice sane Linux box there are many ways to do things. This is great when something doesn't work and you need to try something else. Let's say X is all horked, and screen redraws are taking forever, and the cursor is stuck in compound low, and the CPU is in the red zone. Usually you can still get to a command prompt, and find and kill offending processes. There are keyboard tricks like Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to disconnect an X session, or the Sysreq key for fancier rescue tricks. If your local access is too messed up to use you can try remote administration. If those are hopeless, boot a rescue CD or DVD. If that doesn't work pull out your hard drive, stick it in an external USB enclosure, and hook it up to a working PC. There is always a way.
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