On Tuesday 06 March 2007 20:59 Ian Hilliard wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> 30 Days with Linux
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>> | Many people, daunted by Vista's hardware requirements and product
>> | activation issues, claim on various boards how they plan to "switch
>> | to Linux." We spend 30 days using nothing but Ubuntu Linux to find
>> | out if this is truly a viable alternative for the consumer.
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>> http://consumer.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTI5OCwxLCxoY29uc3VtZXI=
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> As it should be, the conclusion sums it all up very nicely.
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> I'm certainly going to put a Windows XP partition on Whakataruna for the
> near future - but I've decided to keep the bulk of my hard drive - and
> most of my day-to-day operations, in Linux. XP is going to be my OS for
> gaming, audio loop editing, and Photoshop, but for everything else, Linux
> has transformed into an attractive, utility-driven, customizable, and
> generally easy-to-use interface that takes all of the virtues and none of
> the faults from the other major OSes and gives it to the consumer for
> free. ----
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> In my experience, he will discover that he needs his Windows partition
> less and less until he get to the point where he starts up Windows once in
> a blue moon to see if it still works, but it's not at all needed for work.
Well Ian .... in my experience....
I started to re-install W2000 (multi-boot) on this Linux machine in August
2005(sic!) after W2000 went bananas. Someday I suppose I'll finish the
job.... maybe....:-)
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