Excellent article about Linux

Paul wrote:
Dan Purgert wrote:
Bobbie Sellers wrote:
On 1/9/19 5:43 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 30/12/2018 14.00, Nomen Nescio wrote:
[...]
It takes 1000% more work to make it approximately half as
productive as a Mac or Windows PC.
Maybe you are a less than able human? :-P


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But whenever I encounter Windows and I do at large intervals
find myself dealing with my own copy of same or someone else's
Windows installation and it takes me 200% more effort to get
even the preparation for the installation of a dual-boot system
as it does to install Linux to a naked disk.

Makes sense - you do have to actually /prepare/ the system if you're
gonna be dual-booting.

It's gotten easier with GPT partitioning, but if their computer is still
using MBR, it's a right pain.

And it's nice that you have the _choice_ to dual-boot with *nix
installers. Fairly certain to this day, Win installation media has one
option - "Blow it all away and give me the entire drive".

You would be surprised how tolerant an MBR partitioning
strategy can be with multiple OSes.

Oh, it's just dealing with "oh, you're out of primary partitions,
because Windows needed the install partition, the backup partition, and
the install media partition, and your OEM decidied to make you a 'data'
partition as well ... amazing ... okay, what can we delete without too
much harm today?"

Good to hear though that the installers have gotten smarter in recent
revisions (last dual-boot I had was 7, and that never ran into "ugh,
time to format and reinstall win").


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