__/ [ Handover Phist ] on Thursday 21 September 2006 15:59 \__
> I just wanted to see one post with this title from someone who has done
> it more than once.
>
> My first Linux installation was in 1999 on a Cyrix 333 with 128 meg ram
> and a 6 gig drive. Soon after I bought the machine the hard drive died.
> I sent it back to the shop and they replaced it, but didn't install the
> OS. The supplied CD wouldn't install an OS either as the hard drive
> wasn't within the specs programmed by the company who sold it to me.
> That left me somewhere between the middle of nowhere and fucked, and the
> companies involved didn't give two shits between them about my
> situation, they were just happy to have a thousand bucks (bastards).
>
> So I pirated a copy of Windows 2000 and installed Mandrake 7.2
> alo9ngside it. Looking at the two side by side was a real eye opener. If
> I were to keep using Windows, I would have to pay through the nose
> companies that had already ripped me off by selling me a useless
> machine, or keep pirating. Mandrake, however, came with stuff. Lots of
> it. There was no Firefox or Openoffice back then but the distro still
> came with a *lot* of programs, and I wasn't dealing with a shady
> corporation.
>
> Since then I haven't been pirating software. I but games ocassionally
> and my Windows XP is bought and paid for with the money I make off of
> building Linux machines.
>
> I would guess I've installed Linux more than a hundred times on many
> different computers, both i386 and macintosh, for different purposes.
> Slackware is so flexible and useful on a computer I find I can build a
> machine that will do just about anything the end user wants with little
> trouble and no worries that the hardware isn't supported or hunting and
> downloading drivers.
>
> Windows is still a good video game, but if I want to get a job done, I
> deal with folks I can trust. I trust the Linux developers. I've been
> dealing with them for years and not once have they failed to provide me
> with solid programming.
If you want games, why not just get a gaming console? Large screen and all...
often cheaper than a Windows licence, GPU, and XP-capable hardware
(particularly plenty of RAM).
Best wishes,
Roy
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