One small reason I love Gentoo

duozmo · Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:21 pm Post subject: One small reason I love Gentoo

It doesn't do this to me.

ba747heavy · Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:25 pm Post subject:

I don't get it :?:

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duozmo · Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:31 pm Post subject:

Sorry, some context...

This dialog shows a 5 minute countdown to a forced restart in Windows XP. The counter started out of the blue, after windows automatically downloaded and installed some patch of some type. This dialog was modal (a.k.a. always on top) and the close box was disabled - there was no way to cancel it.

I'm all for automatic updates (when secure & verified) but I just thought this was a new extreme, and pretty funny at that.

ba747heavy · Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 9:03 pm Post subject:

Ah gotcha. Well, that is windoz for you.
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placeholder · Advocate Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 2500

Yeah, that is pretty easy to see in that particular case. Also, if you still use WindowsXP at all then enable cleartype because it makes the fonts look better. Maybe not Xorg quality, but they still look better. :wink:

That is done via:

Right-click desktop -> Properties -> Settings tab(or something like that) -> Effects button -> Font Rendering drop-box = change to Cleartype

I do not know how accurate that is though, because on all of the three boxes I have at my house, none of them run any form of Windows.

Fanatic · Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 9:46 pm Post subject:

In all fairness it's more of a Linux thing than any Gentoo specific thing. Not having to reboot after installing any old piece of crap is a nice feature of Linux though.

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Digital Storm · Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:54 am Post subject:

Happened to me yesterday when I installed a new version of Norton AV on a windows machine, it presented a box saying I *had* to reboot and only presented with an okay button...

ba747heavy · Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 1:04 am Post subject:

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ChojinDSL · l33t Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Posts: 784

One thing that always pissed me off about windows, every new version is slower. Sometimes so slow, you need a new computer just to be able to run a OS!?!?!

Linux actually manages to improve speed with newer versions. Thats not just the kernel, but apps as well.

foosh · Apprentice Joined: 11 Jan 2004 Posts: 231 Location: STL

Not having to reboot after installing something in Linux is indeed a great feature, one that I'm getting better at taking advantage of... but in the early days of my transition to Linux, I almost always rebooted after an install or an update, so deeply ingrained was the "reboot required" adage of windows installations.

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Leikor · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Sep 2003 Posts: 123

Just for referance .. you can abort the forced shutdown by running the "shutdown /a" command. Thought I do agree that it shouldn't do that at all.

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fatboyjim · Apprentice Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Posts: 227 Location: UK

I *think* shutdown /a only works with the system shutdowns initiated with the shutdown command

(run shutdown -i for a graphical interface and shutting down any computer on your network ;-)

)

Remember the blaster worm? The RPC restart thing, that's the kind of shutdown that shutdown /a will stop
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IvanHoe · l33t Joined: 05 Oct 2002 Posts: 658

If you have to use Windows then it's best to turn off automatic updates and just do it manually.

LucaSpiller · Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 7:05 pm Post subject:

Forced restarts are stupid in Windows. Most of the time restarting explorer would suffice, or at the most logging off and logging on again. Unless there is a really big change like a new kernel or something.

Also what is with the clear type fonts (in the above example you need the appearence tab, not the settings tab) - for me they look blurry.
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blackhorse · Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 2:46 am Post subject:

Gentoo is really great! I mean, who ever heard of a gentoo box, or any other *nix box getting bitrot!
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