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From: mechanic on 24 Apr 2010 11:07
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:38:51 -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote:

> FreeBSD, Linux, et al were free to do whatever they wanted, as
> elegantly as their contributors desired simply because ... there
> was no overarching commercial pressure for many years.

Unfortunately there is no pressure to fix long time bugs either.
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From: Ahem A Rivet's Shot on 24 Apr 2010 03:29
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:13:18 -0500
Tim Daneliuk <tundra(a)tundraware.com> wrote:

> It's doesn't matter. There is HUGE choice today. The fact that
> most people choose not to replace Windows is hardly because of
> some evil plot by Microsoft. It's a reflection of Windows'
> "good enough for most people" technology status.

This is true, also experimentation is usually discouraged by the
lack of installation media to put Windows back on the system if anything
goes wrong.

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From: Tim Daneliuk on 25 Apr 2010 10:38
On 4/24/2010 2:29 AM, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:13:18 -0500
> Tim Daneliuk <tundra(a)tundraware.com> wrote:
>
>> It's doesn't matter. There is HUGE choice today. The fact that
>> most people choose not to replace Windows is hardly because of
>> some evil plot by Microsoft. It's a reflection of Windows'
>> "good enough for most people" technology status.
>
> This is true, also experimentation is usually discouraged by the
> lack of installation media to put Windows back on the system if anything
> goes wrong.
>

I'm not sure what you mean by that. Most machines these days come with
restore partitions. You can easily make backups of these with programs
like Macrium, Acronis, or Ghost.

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From: Ahem A Rivet's Shot on 26 Apr 2010 02:47
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 09:38:54 -0500
Tim Daneliuk <tundra(a)tundraware.com> wrote:

> On 4/24/2010 2:29 AM, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:13:18 -0500
> > Tim Daneliuk <tundra(a)tundraware.com> wrote:
> >
> >> It's doesn't matter. There is HUGE choice today. The fact that
> >> most people choose not to replace Windows is hardly because of
> >> some evil plot by Microsoft. It's a reflection of Windows'
> >> "good enough for most people" technology status.
> >
> > This is true, also experimentation is usually discouraged by the
> > lack of installation media to put Windows back on the system if anything
> > goes wrong.
> >
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by that. Most machines these days come with
> restore partitions. You can easily make backups of these with programs
> like Macrium, Acronis, or Ghost.

I've seen machines without - and even on machines with one you need
to know that these programs exist and can turn your restore partition into
a recovery disc. I contend that none of this is obvious to the average user.

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