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**The Ghost In The Machine**

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Alias

wrote
on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:40:20 +0100
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wrote:
On Feb 22, 1:33 pm, Alias wrote:
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.
LOL! Mine was ready to go right away.

Alias

"Dean G." wrote in message
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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.comOrderthe 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.- Hide quoted text -
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So was mine.
Ready to go into the dustbin of course.
I just wasn't smart enough to toss it after the first set of problems.

Linux is a waste of time.
A HUGE waste of time.

Your loss. Keep paying MS.

Alias

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