Laptop died.

[blueblur121]

have a 2003 laptop with linux and works for everything I do

(except development)

What are you talking about? Linux is fantastic for software development.

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[Katla]

What are you talking about? Linux is fantastic for software development.

He uses C#, so it's probably a little different, with that being a Microsoft thing.

[?Sir Info? 2]

my dad has a W8 laptop and it works perfectly fine, no problems.

its the people who do stupid stuff that forget it up.

Your dad has a Vector W8 as a laptop?

[blueblur121]

He uses C#, so it's probably a little different, with that being a Microsoft thing.

Oh, well that explains it. I don't know stuff about C#

[Ipquarx]

Oh, well that explains it. I don't know stuff about C#

It's basically microsoft's copy of Java. It can (theoretically) run on any platform but it needs a compatible framework for each platform it runs on. There's the .NET framework for windows and Mono for OSX and Linux.

[Cortunix³]

windows 8 sucks, windows 8.1 is good