On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, TC wrote:
Actually, I overstate my han'lessness. I know more about this stuff
than your average Joe in the street. And the fact that *I* can't do
something as simple as this surely proves that Linux is still *miles*
away from Windows in usability for the common man.
... Linux is still *miles* away from Windows in usability for the
common man. *Miles*.
True. On Windows, you'd just wipe the disk and do a clean
re-install and then it would all work fine...
Often true. And the fact that Windows is still more usable, *despite*
that problem,
merely proves
... rpmfind.net has hits for both apt and yum, including the below
link for apt
Thanks.
... Are you talking miles away when RH9 was new, or still miles away
now that it has been
superceded by Fedora?
The former. I'm going to take a fresh copy of Fedora and see how that
performs.
I don't
* TC ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
But it is pish awful - *so* pish awful as to overwhelm those undoubted
advantages - when it
comes to the average desktop user's needs.
ummm.
average desktop users need their OS to not crash every day.
iain
--
If sharing a thing in no
ummm.
average desktop users need their OS to not crash every day. iain
Sheesh, it really is like a religion, isn't it?
This sort of statement shows that it's not just The Evil Empire that
uses fear,
uncertainty and dread.
Windows doesn't crash every day. 98, didn't. 2K certainly doesn't.
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 00:30, Charles McCrimmon wrote:
anyway, i was just mailing to say i think this is nutz havin a public
argument/discussion about windows Vs Linux on a Lug mailing list utterly
nutz :D
a. It stemmed from a discussion about RPMs on Linux
b. It's still about Linux (albeit
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 00:30, Charles McCrimmon wrote:
anyway, i was just mailing to say i think this is nutz havin a public
argument/discussion about windows Vs Linux on a Lug mailing list utterly
nutz :D
a. It stemmed from a discussion about RPMs on Linux
b. It's still about Linux (albeit
Ive been following the thread, i made sure i read it right from the
start before replying.
i didnt add any fuel, just pointing out it was a useless argument thats
probably appeared on this mailing list a few times and never ever ends
well, no matter what the original subject was about, and i did
