On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 08:25 -0500, Mike Flannigan wrote: > I'm back to Windows 7 for now. At least it works (sort of). > It sure was painful giving MS $100.
Oh, the hell I've gone through trying to get Windows to install... First there were PCs that couldn't boot from a CD, so you'd need to boot from a floppy, and shoehorn the CD drivers into it for your particular CD-ROM. Of course you wouldn't know which drivers to use, because the card your drive plugged into came with a disc full of numerous different drivers, that either a program on the disc was supposed to pick the right one (and didn't), or you were expected to figure it out by divine intervention. That was only the beginning. If you were lucky, Windows would finish the installation without crashing, but you'd have no sound, 16 colours in 600 by 480, no network, and perhaps no working mouse. You'd have to gather driver discs for all of them, possibly downloading things from the net on another PC, and go through the find the right driver shenanigans I'd already mentioned, with the added fun of Windows messing around at the same time. Would I have to boot up for each device, insert the disc when Windows asked for it, and try to get the right driver. Or would have to boot up, cancel the insert disc, abort the driver installation. Insert a disc, manually install something from the disc, manually scan for new hardware, and hope that Windows would make use of the driver I just installed. Naturally, there'll be several reboots involved in this. And the sequence of which drivers you install first, and which particular slots anything was plugged into the motherboard, was essential to get right. Although they claimed to share IRQs, that was only when not actually using the hardware. And this is always made all the more harder by the computing hardware being old, cobbled together from various sources, with unlabelled plug-in cards, and missing install discs. Insert four more paragraphs from an ipsem lorum script, to further emphasise the annoyance factor of these types of postings to the list. Are you still reading? Have you realised this post is sarcastic ... And that's why I use Linux. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
