Spinning Ball of Death or The Blue Screen of Death?

[HappinessNow]

Spinning Ball of Death or The Blue Screen of Death?...if you had to choose only between these two which would you choose?

[Zzl1xndd]

At least the Ball is a Unix.

[Tibuda]

What about the kernel panic of death?

[TBOL3]

or the xorg crashed screen of death, and won't allow you to drop into a terminal.

Or how about the grub error of death.

Or how about linux?

Anyway, I don't know which I prefer, at least with the spinning ball, I can see the screen, if I had anything I needed to copy.

[MikeTheC]

This is still my personal favorite:

http://haftbar.de/wp-content/guru-meditation_error.gif

[CJ Master]

BSoD. At least it gives you information. They just need to make it look like it didn't come from the early 80's...

[ghindo]

bsod. At least it gives you information. They just need to make it look like it didn't come from the early 80's...+1

[Corelogik]

Ive never had a spinning beach ball of death, anytime the ball spun for an interminable amount of time I was always able to kill the process and move on with my life. The spinning beach ball does not kill the machine in the same way a kernal panic or a BSoD does.

[HappinessNow]

What about the kernel panic of death?That would require a completely new thread and a new poll...feel free to start one up.

[hanzomon4]

I think the OS X kernel panic screen is analogous to the blue screen of death. X crash of death, grub error of death, and the I just decided I don't like you so I"m going to freeze randomly forcing you to cold reboot and lose data because I'm Ubuntu and I can do that while still being better then every other OS in every way except photoshop which sucks next to the gimp bat out of hell wtf? you're far from perfect why does my docky constantly crash I could keep this going for a page crash of death... I don't think the other OSes have comparable hells, although I'm sure some drama queen is going correct my thinking

[spoons]

How are you supposed to read the error message if it's on a spinning ball?

The idea of a BSoD is that you never see it, and when you do it gives you information to help you never see it again.

[The Toxic Mite]

The Blue Screen of Death is my favourite! :P:P

Has anyone had a kernel panic on Ubuntu before?

[days_of_ruin]

Thread should be renamed to "SBoD or BSoD?" to cause confusion:cool:

[hanzomon4]

The Blue Screen of Death is my favourite! :P:P

Has anyone had a kernel panic on Ubuntu before?

Yeah... the system freezes

If it happens on boot up It says kernel panic... and freezes

[Tibuda]

Has anyone had a kernel panic on Ubuntu before?
I only had a X server crash once. It was probably my fault. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, and I got GDM again.

[roachk71]

My tooth-grinding (non-) favorite:

The Atari ST "Row of Bombs." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_of_bombs)

On the ST, these were displayed all-too-frequently, and most of the time, only a reset or power-cycle would clear them.

Another kind of crash I faced when I owned STs was the Spectre GCR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_GCR) Crash Page.

I'd much rather see the Mac's Spinning Ball of Death...

[soliddiesel]

i have had seen more blue screen than any one around me, i have crashed windows at situations even i cant think of, and as for inconsistency of these blue screens, after 10 blue screens it told me i should check my memory modules!! :S which it should have pointed out at first.

[0per4t0r]

I've seen only one bluescreen, and that was when I was ending windows explorer because it wasn't responding.

[The Toxic Mite]

Orange Screen of Death, anybody? ;)

I created it in GIMP btw its an invention of my own :D

[Xbehave]

NUMLOCK of doom

[Cowchip7]

I think I had a kernel panic with my iBook G4. I believe suspended the computer as it was trying to optimize the disc drive during a shut-down or something...

Long story short, when I tried to boot the computer, I got some kind of weird MAC cube... nothing would happen! I had to reinstall!

#-o

[jfloydb]

I thought it was a spinning doughnut...

[HappinessNow]

I thought it was a spinning doughnut...There's No Hole!