HA Urdu! Hey i can follow the Urdu instructions...although not a great fan of the font!
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Rob Beard <r...@esdelle.co.uk> wrote: > On 19/10/10 21:29, Barry Drake wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 12:47 +0100, pmgazz wrote: > >> Totally agree, takes a fraction of the time and botheration 95% of the > >> time. > > > > That's my experience exactly! I've installed various incarnations of > > Windows and it's been a real pain! Compared to that, Ubuntu is just > > Soooo simple. > > > > My biggest annoyance with Windows was it's propensity to give you a two > > minute countdown and then it will re-boot to install the latest goodies. > > I often left videos rendering overnight .... imagine my anger when that > > nice Mr. Gates had made my machine re-boot without my intervention!!! > > He wasted hours of my computer time!!! > > Hmmm, I've not had that myself, on XP it would pop up with the annoying > message asking to reboot every 15 minutes or so but on Vista and Windows > 7 you get the option to postpone the reboot and make the message go away > for a few hours. If you don't click on anything it just sits there. > > On the other hand, at work we use XP and install stuff using SMS and > some things are configured to reboot automatically 5 minutes after > installing. > > > > > I don't have anything against Windows, but I really find Ubuntu slicker > > and easier in so many ways .... even for a non-geek. > > I agree, I much prefer Ubuntu now. 10.10 looks lovely, and now I'm > finally getting used to the window controls moving (so much in fact it > seems like they're in the wrong place on Windows now!). > > Oh and Ubuntu has earnt some more brownie points this evening. It turns > out my server (P4 3Ghz with 2 x IDE and 2 x SATA hard drives in it) > died. Not sure whats wrong with it, possibly duff PSU. I needed to get > it up and running quickly so I dropped the hard drives in an Athlon X2 > PC booted them up and after a long drawn out fsck (due to fsck not being > run for ages) the server came up fine. > > I've not had it that easy with Windows. > > Rob > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- Regards Javad
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