my girlfriend gets on perfectly well with ubuntu but would never have tried it if I hadn't left her with a laptop that only had ubuntu
In a similar manner, for some years I have got my parents to not switch their PC off and they now leave it running 24/7 ( help my folding score +1 ) but anyway, I left a live linux CD in their PC a while back, I think it was SuSE 7.2 but it was certainly about that time anyway.
But my mum said that she liked the new theme I put on her PC but "Her disk wont open anymore?"
Anyway, I was unable to get down for a couple of weeks, but she was ok to wait and when I went down, I found that I had left the Live Disk in and she has been happily using that all this time.
Just shows doesnt it?
When I explained, she was kind of sorry to see it go, but she wanted her AOL back ( The cow )
She is now no longer on AOL so perhaps... Maybe...
She doesn't rate open office writer but otherwise has no objections to the system.
Me too. I like Star Office however. Its a more "Finished" version of Open Office as you know and I feel worth the money.
The main complaint I hear is that if it breaks they don't know how to fix it, cheerfully glossing over not knowing how to fix windows either.
Bingo!
I think there's a strong association of "cheap" with "rubbish" in most peoples minds which doesn't help matters.
Again, another arguement I hear all too often, is that you get what you pay for and since Linux is free, its worthless. ---- ARGH!
Credit where it's due, I wouldn't have expected that to be possible. Some people are writing a compiler for windows code which runs natively under linux, perhaps the projects are associated with each other. Thanks for this example.
Ok, Im making out that it runs 100% of Linux code, this is not totally true, but most cleanly written code yes...
I have a few example screenshots that I will try to dig out, but there are such examples as running a few basic tux games, and even tux racer and thats a 3D game, so...
Check out SPAREMINT... Thats a fairly good example of the O/S and thats RPM based.
But yes, the thing is that it brings a lot of the best bits of unix to an Atari
Now I feel bad. I'm not trying to put you in your place, to be honest I'm grateful for a coherent argument in favour of windows. I'm a bit sick of "linux has no games so is ****".
Yeah, well linux is crap. It costs nothing so its worth nothing.. LOL
I'm running a copy of vista partly because...
Seriously mate... Win7 is everyhting that XP and Vista should have been.
Its flawless.
Vista was a serious mistake.
Now, I feel thats a little harsh TBH. It had issues. My word, did it have issues, and I feel that with SP2, these issues are pretty much now gone. I for one had over a year of failing to actually get a completely reliable Vista install, but once SP2 came along I am happy to say that my PCs no longer just trash themselves.
However, Win7 is all the best parts of Vista, with all the rubbish taken out.
It seems that for once, Microsoft actually has listened to the people. Maybe with Macs and Linux these days being a serious option and therefore a more serious contender, perhaps this has made Microsoft sit up and actually write an OS thats good, I dont know, but I promise you, if you have not tried Windows 7 then you are in for a little bit of a shock.
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Here, one funny one for you.
My first ever HD was a 540MB for my Atari ST way back when we lived in caves... Cost me a smidge over a grand. ( good times ? )
Anyway, it had a few partitions and I forget what they were, thats not important, but I spent the next 2 weeks going about, copying my floppy disks over to it, I ran out of space on one partition, so I went to another, ran out on that and eventually I was left with a good bit of C: free and some of G: ... D: E: and F: were chokka!
So, while I was doing all of this, I read about this thing called partitioning and so I decided that the partitions were not very usefull as they were and so I decided to give it a slightly bigger C: and have a single D: for all my stuff and that way Id have a lot more room for everything.
But guess what happened?
I wiped the lot!
I didnt know at the time and while its bloody obvious to us now, at the time I was struggling to accept what had just happened???
LOL
We live and learn dont we?
