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

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: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 22 2015, @01:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 22 2015, @01:31PM (#173952)

    Blue screens are caused by faulty hardware on all modern versions of Windows. Haven't seen a real one since 2005

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 22 2015, @02:29PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 22 2015, @02:29PM (#173983)

    Really? We saw a bunch of blue screens at my work a few months ago due to a bad update from Microsoft. They later pulled and re-issued it, but by then we had already reformatted. (We tried the recovery steps suggested on the Microsoft knowledgebase first, but they didn't work.)

  • (Score: 2) by jasassin on Thursday April 23 2015, @05:39PM

    by jasassin (3566) <jasassin@gmail.com> on Thursday April 23 2015, @05:39PM (#174369) Homepage Journal

    I agree. Even xp bsod was caused by a bad ram stick every time.

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