On 9/6/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 02:11:51PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote > > > My 'disagreement', if there is one, is that a savings of $300 for a > > new computer and a $99 Windows upgrade won't convince many people to > > learn to do it themselves using Linux. It takes a much stronger reason > > than that, at least in my limited part of the planet. > > How about "the hard truth"... > > Admiinistering Linux is hard. > Keeping a Windows machine free of spyware is harder.
Damn straight!!! Actually, building a Win XP machine is pretty damn hard also. I wrote down what I did today building my only dual boot machine from scratch. I swear it almost took long to load Win XP successfully than it did to do a stage 3 Gentoo install! No less than 12 reboots and one spontanious reboot that shouldn't have happened. All this just to get XP loaded, Windows update done, and NAV loaded. What a mess!!! Everythign is up except grub. I need to send the list a question about that before I run grub and actually install it. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
