Sometimes nothing is harder than trying to reload Windows. After converting my Omnibook XE2 to RH9, I tried to repair 2K on my dual-boot machine. There's a file it says it can't find, on the same CD from which I originally loaded it. And NT4 can't deal with a newer disc than the one I had when I was using NT4! I hope I never need Windows for anything again; it's too much of a hassle, especially when features suddenly go missing for no apparent reason. I have had to reload Linux a few times, but never had these problems.
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From: mah@everybody.org (Mark A. Hershberger)
Date: 2003/11/06 Thu PM 06:23:44 EST
To: nolug@joeykelly.net
Subject: Re: [Nolug] Distro suggestions
Alex <alex@boxchain.com> writes:
> I've never had an install work right out of the box, always due to
> weird hardware (3dfx cards, sony picturebook) and advanced demands
> (bleeding edge kernel features like acpi, swsusp, tigl, etc.) But
> when I went looking for recipes on how to get linux on my picturebook
> (with no cd), the two distros that had the most success were deb and
> slack. This says a lot to me about a distro's flexibility.
What amazes me is that it seems harder to use, say, a wireless pcmcia
card in WindowsXP than Linux.
Granted, I make sure that the hardware I buy will work with Linux,
but even when that hardware also includes the "Designed for XP", or
whatever, logo, I have to go through more steps to get the hardware
to work under XP.
Mark.
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-- Walker Percy, "The Second Coming"
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