Originally posted by Jabberwocky
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Now placing the "tin foil hat" aside, I think the Windows user community owes some thanks to those people that never "opted out" of CEIP and contributed their data to Microsoft. The same thing can be said about people that allow "Windows Error Reporting" (WER) to report various errors to Microsoft and with a minimum of user effort, compared to filing a bug report in the Linux community; even Bruce Byfield over at "Linux Pro" magazine and written online about the hassles of Linux bug reporting. So I guess in some ways there are some things that the Linux community could (re)learn(?) from the Windows community, but someone has to want to develop & test such tools, then provide them to the community, not to mention provide the necessary funding to launch and maintain such an effort.
As for my own HW issues, I don't like Dell either; HP is my preference over Dell. Nvidia & AMD/ATI based video cards have never caused me issues, but I don't "push them hard" either. And don't get me started on Gigabyte boards; I know some people that swaer by them, but I have only sworn at them. I will stick with Asus for Windows workstations and Supermicro for my server boards & "high end needs", but I am undecided on a preferred vendor board for Linux based workstations. I have tried in the past: Foxconn (hit & miss, mostly miss), Intel (sometimes that is Foxconn assembled or sourced, so hit & miss...about 50-50), ECS (pa..leeze!!), Tyan (sometimes quirky), and a few others.
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