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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 Grishnakh on Wednesday April 22 2015, @03:11PM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Wednesday April 22 2015, @03:11PM (#174000)

    Exactly right. If you use Linux on weird hardware, expect problems, but if you install a mainstream distro like Mint on vanilla hardware, it's as easy as pie. My wife uses Mint on her Dell laptop and I never have to mess with it, except for the times one of the cats sits on the keyboard and screws up the browser.

    Even Netflix works these days, with Chrome.

    The only time I have to actually delve into the innards of the OS is if I'm doing something entirely non-mainstream, such as when I want to make my PICkit2 USB device programmer work without needing sudo. For people who just use Facebook and Gmail and write some office documents, it's more than adequate, and extremely reliable to boot.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 23 2015, @08:40AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 23 2015, @08:40AM (#174228)

    ...My wife uses Mint on her Dell laptop...

    Does she need to keep a 9mm handy for the BSODs?