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From: Anonymous Remailer (austria) on 11 Apr 2010 11:14 Bear Bottoms wrote: > You don't need Ubuntu to recover Windows. Just reformat the hard drive > and reinstall Windows. Simple. I do it all the time. Of course you do. Windows users HAVE to. You learn the "wipe and reinstall" routine, or you pay someone to do it for you. Thanks for pointing that out, Sir Bottoms. :) Of course Linux users spend all their time being productive rather than pissing away endless hours compensating for their crapware OS. And... as a bonus... on the rare occasions when Linux user *do* need to reinstall (like hardware failure), Linux is infinitely easier to install and configure.
From: Bill Day on 11 Apr 2010 11:48 ive CDs of Knoppix, Ubuntu and Mandriva and >have messed with a couple of them (and a live DVD of Knoppix)....I >have a new PC on my network and am studying how to make it dual boot. >Just got a partition manager and I 'think' I will install Mandriva on >new partition. Proceeding slowly... > >(Can't dispense with Windows XP, because I have too many toys running >on it which Linux doesn't have.) trying to set a new computer for the first time in 6 years and get my persona done right in Agent.... seems I didn't have it first time. I may have to look at the settings on the other machine.
From: Ron on 11 Apr 2010 12:52 On 4/10/2010 5:18 PM, Mark Warner wrote: > > Just curious. How many here use desktop Linux on a regular basis? > Doesn't need to be your primary platform, but use it enough to consider > yourself a "user". > I keep a PIII machine for playing with distros. Get on it every few days. Currently, it's running MoonOS, kinda like a cross between Mint and Ubuntu. Ron Moore
From: Craig on 11 Apr 2010 12:56 On 04/11/2010 08:00 AM, grant wrote: > On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:18:12 -0400, Mark Warner > <mhwarner.inhibitions(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Just curious. How many here use desktop Linux on a regular basis? > > I use Linux every day. How can anybody take "free" software seriously > and not use Linux? good point -- -Craig
From: POKO on 11 Apr 2010 13:22
In article <D_adnREIqdvWY1zWnZ2dnUVZ_smdnZ2d(a)earthlink.com>, rmoore85 @ix.netcom.com says... > On 4/10/2010 5:18 PM, Mark Warner wrote: > > > > Just curious. How many here use desktop Linux on a regular basis? > > Doesn't need to be your primary platform, but use it enough to consider > > yourself a "user". > > > I keep a PIII machine for playing with distros. Get on it every few > days. Currently, it's running MoonOS, kinda like a cross between Mint > and Ubuntu. > > Ron Moore > > I was dual booting with Ubuntu and seldom got onto Linux. I've got quite a collection of dvd/cd's with just about every distro out there (I'm a download junkie) and load linux onto computers that get donated to my Komputers4Kids project (see my index page) that are too weak for Windows, -- Best - POKO Manitoulin Island, Canada |