Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:Faram wrote:Darth Wong wrote:You install Windows, you should not be surprised when you have problems
Depends it is possible to keep a windows system stable and running.
Unix flawors is inherently more stable and less prone to crashes I am not arguing against that.
But my current XP installation is running fine for 1½ year now.
BTW if you have xp use the syetem restore if anything messes up. It's a life saver
True, up till the point that your sister finds herself in the C:\WINNT\System32 directory with Admin priviliges...
"Hmm I wonder what this is? Maybe if I delete a few of these I can save some space"
*selects ntdll.dll, services.exe, and mswinsck.dll and hits <Delete>...*
That's why you don't make the computer autologin as admin.
Check permissions settings on system files too.
Well if they deleted files, can't you look in the recycle bin?
Nuking a linux system is actually easier if you have root priveledges- someone types in
rm -rf / junk instead of rm -rf /junk
This could be prevented by making system files immutable (chattr +i), spliting the system into partitions mounted read-only, etc. Damage will occur (configuration files and such) but will be limited. And of course don't run as root. I recommend writing a script called "del" to use instead of rm that moves stuff to /trash/$(date)/, though that is pretty crude. I might get around to replace the folders named after date with some text file with a database of dates, filename, and a perl script so restoring might be easy. Need to learn perl (maybe w/ TK) though.
I find the internal workings of an Linux distro much simpler and cleaner than windows, which appears to have everything important under c:\windows, which is a total mess. Not exactly customizable either, since configuration is in binary form.
I have nightmares about that happening... 
