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I like OS X - I got a MacMini ~15 months ago, and despite my plan to install Debian, I still haven't. But it does crash on me every ~6 weeks. A - halfway - mod

by krylon 12y ago

I like OS X - I got a MacMini ~15 months ago, and despite my plan to install Debian, I still haven't. But it does crash on me every ~6 weeks. A - halfway - modern operating system should not crash, unless the hardware is faulty. I really like badmouthing Windows, But my work laptop running Windows 7 has crashed only two or three times in nearly two years. Also, as a former GNU/Linux user, I am unhappy about the poor integration of X11. Cygwin's X server is a lot smoother in that regard. (Let me repeat, I do like OS X, and yes, Windows has plenty of things I intensely dislike, which is why I do not use it on my private computers.)

munificent 12y ago
> But it does crash on me every ~6 weeks. A - halfway - modern operating system should not crash, unless the hardware is faulty. Obvious follow-up question: are you sure your hardware isn't faulty?
- krylon 12y ago
  Let's say I am confident, but not 100% sure. I found an app a couple of months back that lets me monitor the CPU temperature and adjust the fan speed (at least the minimum fan speed) - I upped it from 1800rpm to 4000rpm (above 4000, it gets noisy), and crashes have become somewhat less common. So maybe it was just a heat problem. But I did notice that most crashes happened when I was trying to watch something on YouTube, so it could also be a problem with Flash or the graphics driver. (Then again, YouTube has worked fine for me recently, so maybe it really was a heating/cooling problem.)