Here's something to be said for Windows. The apps I need are not Linux
compatible. So no Linux around here!

Maybe when Linux can be taken seriously, we'll see more apps being developed
for it. But until then....it's Windows and OSX.


"NoStop" wrote in message
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Gary wrote:

Its not how long it takes to install that counts. Its how long it takes
you to get it to work that really counts.
Vista a few hours. Linux days, months, years.

Another stupid top poster. But in any case, one can be productive with
Ubuntu even before it's installed, because you can get it on a LiveCD. :-)
Sure one can spend months and years probing all the strengths GNU/Linux
offers. Why? Because they're there and the operating system is capable of
doing so much beyond just running apps on the desktop. Alas, the same
can't
be said for any version of Windoze.

Cheers.



"Dean G." wrote in message
ups.com...
On Feb 22, 12:22 pm, "Brian W"
wrote:
"Alias" wrote in message

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Funny, I installed Ubuntu in less than half an hour. Try Ubuntu.
www.ubuntu.comOrder the 6.06 CD. They send it to you free and pay the
postage.

That's still more time than I ever plan to spend installing it on my
system

So you have no OS ? I know of no recent OS that takes less than 30
minutes to install on a PC. When you consider that Linux also installs
many applications, which require a separate and also long installation
on other OS's. Thus you are saying that the fastest installing OS is
too slow for you, so you are going to use a slower one.

Not only that, but if you go with a pre-installed OS, then you are
likely going to end up re-installing the OS several times, as even the
experts who promote that OS suggest an re-install at least annually,
and perhaps more often for power users.

Abort, Retry, Fail, Reboot, Reinstall, Remit all of your money to
Redmond. Smile, you are one of those people Stalin called "useful".

Dean G.




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