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Colorado Man Ends Battle With Computer by Shooting it 8 Times

posted by mrcoolbp on Wednesday April 22 2015, @06:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the dagnabbit-stupid-freaking.... dept.

Grishnakh writes:

A 37-year-old Colorado Springs man was cited for discharging a weapon within city limits after shooting his Dell computer 8 times with a 9mm handgun. The police report said that he "was fed up with fighting his computer for the last several months" and shot it in a back alley behind his home. What was not mentioned is exactly why he was so "fed up" with his computer. Could this senseless and violent tragedy have been avoided if his PC were running Linux instead?

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Wednesday April 22 2015, @09:30AM

    by Magic Oddball (3847) on Wednesday April 22 2015, @09:30AM (#173890) Journal

    Hm. The reason I switched to Linux seven years ago was largely because Windows XP problems had sucked the joy out of computing for me, and injected a lot of frustration in its place. :-p

    That said, I'm keeping a serious eye on Windows 10 and will probably give it a real try. While I had great experiences with Linux, I got a wake-up call when it derailed from last August through late December — the time period when I was distro-hopping in search of even one that was systemd-based and stable on my hardware. PCLinuxOS 'saved' me from that experience, but there's no guarantee it will remain systemd-free, so I'd better have a good exit strategy in place in case Devuan isn't mature and systemd remains unusable for me.

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday April 22 2015, @10:54AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Wednesday April 22 2015, @10:54AM (#173905) Journal

    Go BSD?

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Wednesday April 22 2015, @12:28PM

    by VLM (445) on Wednesday April 22 2015, @12:28PM (#173925)

    freebsd just works. Its a relief to have something just work.