Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!news.alt.net!not-for-mail From: owl Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux worked while Windows didn't Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 20:30:36 +0000 (UTC) Organization: ok by me, so long as it doesn't get out of hand Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <551afd97$0$22315$c3e8da3$a9097924@news.astraweb.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: boom.rooftop.invalid User-Agent: tin/1.4-19991113 ("No Labels") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.38-16-generic (x86_64)) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:287034 vallor wrote: > So there I was, dual-booted into Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium playing > _Just Cause 2_, when the program exited with an exception. > "That's weird", I thought. "Maybe it was the graphics driver I just > upgraded to." > So I back-graded the graphics driver, and played some more. A few > minutes later -- Pop! goes the exception. > I was streaming on twitch with a bunch of friends looking on, and we all > agreed that JC2 just doesn't do this sort of thing. Clearly, there was > something odd about my machine. > After verifying the game cache in Steam, I started looking at hardware. > And hey, wasn't that weird that the ASUS monitoring app wasn't > registering any chassis fans? > So I looked -- and NONE OF THE CHASSIS FANS WERE SPINNING. > Booted to Linux, fans started spinning. > I'd seen a message over the last few days, whenever booted to Windows, > that the Core1 temperature was 80C. I'd only been playing > Elite:Dangerous, which didn't seem to mind the situation. Additionally, > I'd been a bonehead and not investigated why my machine seemed so much > quieter while booted to Win7. > The fix? Hard power cycle. Now the fans spin in Windows. > Now, about the subject line above, "Linux worked while Windows didn't". > These wintroll clowns are always talking about their hardware works > properly in Windows, but not Linux. Thus, I feel justified blaming > Windows for what is clearly a chipset driver failure -- after all, it's > a Windows driver! > Toodles. So Linux blows and Windoze doesn't?