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Linux as a Tool for Windows Hardware Errors

reallylinux.com — It may seem a bit ridiculous to some, but on more than one occasion I have been asked to help address a Windows hardware issue by assisting with Linux. The "hardware" problems these people faced were quickly reconciled either by placing Linux on an existing secondary partition of the hard disk, or by using a Linux Live-CD...

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  • tracyanne, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Using Linux in this way has saved me time and money, when dealing customer's computers. Mind you I always recommend they save themselves even more grief by replacing windows with Linux
  • doolittle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2it is also great on a fresh build, I always keep a knoppix disk handy and boot of the CD during the bare-bones stage (cpu/mobo/mem/video/dvd) and give it a quick run, maybe even a burn-in using the static-linked prime95.
  • ronsii, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I almost always have a copy or two of a live cd around to save time, whether it be pclinuxos or mandriva or a bare rescue cd. It can save countless hours of microsoft reinstalling, rebooting, waiting, reinstalling drivers, rebooting, 10-23^etc......
  • cato59, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0If only Windows would wake up
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