hi Ship's Log, Lt. Charles Collicutt, Stardate 201298.2155: > But for the home user, why bother? Linux is so much harder to set up > (it may not be incredibly difficult but it is still much much harder than > "stick the cd in the cd-rom drive and click on "next" until it's > installed, possibly changing a few values on the way" which is all you > have to do for windows). It's a complete bugger to install new things -
Oh yes? Sticking the CD in and installing Windows took me about 6 to 8 hours until I had my first working Version of Windows, and I do not talk about setting up any software, just to get the system run at all. On the same computer I installed Linux in about 30 min. including X. just another 5 lines to extend the threat (oops thread ;) -- Alexander N. Benner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG: - if you have problems that seem to be due to kernel bugs, [...] then the second best thing is to mail them to me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Bill Gates: Windos contains no bugs that the majority of users want fixed.