Being a Vista user does have its downsides. Software incompatibility, annoyances with the OS, and the occasional crash. But after seeing that a fair share for the first few month using Vista, I have learned to love the Blue Screen of Death. Having to go back to XP for a few weeks a while back, I just realized how great a Blue Screen is compared to a freeze.

When using XP, I have only once had a BSOD, and that was when I yanked out a USB drive while before it ejected it. Computer didn’t like that. That was the only blue screen I have had for the few years of using computers. It is kinda daunting to see that giant blue screen glowing onto your face for the first time ever. What went wrong? Why did that happen?

But a blue screen is much better than having your system freeze in my opinion. I always dread when my computer stops responding for more than a few seconds and fear for the worst. I have no idea what went wrong, why it froze. Also who knows how long it is going to be in this trans before it starts responding again. How long is long enough to wait for it to wake up and hold down the power button and listen to the awful sound of a hard shutdown.

At least with a BSOD, it gives some kind of error that shows what went wrong. I generally don’t care what went wrong but I can tell what went wrong by what I was doing before I saw the blue. Also with a blue screen, at least I know that my system should be up and running in a minute or so, ready for me to log in. You know whats in store when you get a BSOD. I can’t say the same about a freeze. I like knows whats coming next, thats why I love the Blue Screen of Death.