On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:01:48 -0500, chrisv wrote: > Erik Funkenbusch wrote: > >>On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:36:13 -0500, JEDIDIAH wrote: >> >>> The beauty of a gratis LiveCD is that you can "try before you buy" >>> with no muss, no fuss and no risk. >> >>Except that a LiveCD will boot slowly, run slowly, and generally give a bad >>impression of the speed of Linux to anyone who doesn't understand the >>issues with a LiveCD. >> >>It's really a dual-edged sword. > > Yeah, sure, Fuddie. It's really rocket science to figure that out, > assuming that you haven't already read it. "Gee, it seems that my CD > has to spin-up before things happen!" > > "Gosh, maybe there's a speed compromise to running off a CDROM!?!?!"
Seriously. 99% of the computer using population would not know that, would not make the connection, or would simply not care. "It's too slow, it sucks!" _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
