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Wasting Time Fixing Computers

Posted by michael on from the get-a-bigger-hammer dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Interesting experiment by Marshall Brain, where he tracked every time-wasting error, repair, annoyance on his home network for one month. He logs 11 hours and 20 minutes of crap, everything from driver problems to forced upgrades, spam overflows... you name it. Anyone on /. is experiencing the same thing. Is it going to get better or worse in 2004, and how much time are we all wasting?"

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  1. I wonder how long a Linux network would take by Overly+Critical+Guy · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Seeing as how it takes longer to install drivers, upgrade things, and set things up in general. Slashdotters LOVE to bitch about Microsoft yet again, yet disregard Linux completely in the equation, because to them, setting up Linux is a HOBBY, while setting up Windows is a HASSLE. It's called bias.

    I remember the hell of just setting up APCI on my laptop until I realized that the reason the daemon kept crashing is that it just didn't work on my laptop. The evidence was when I tried two other distros and the same thing happened.

    Meanwhile, Windows already works. :P

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    "Sufferin' succotash."