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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Saturday 02 Jul 2011 11:40 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>
>> Hope and Change Inside My Computer - Part II
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>>| In retrospect, I have recently read a large amount of comments and
>>| articles on how Linux is not ready for prime time. Honestly, if I
>>| had read even a fraction of these articles, I doubt I would have
>>| installed it, even with Mark's endorsement. In the past two months
>>| or so, I can honestly say I can not understand how these writers came
>>| to such a conclusion. Linux works extremely well for me.
>> `----
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>> http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2011/06/hope-and-change-inside-my-computer-part.html
>
> The article also notes a few warts.
>
> Oh, and:
>
> It used to be that I would turn off my computer every night. I would
> prefer to leave it on simply for convenience but even Windows 7 has a
> habit of degrading in performance rapidly if I left it on more than three
> days in a row. Sometimes I would have to do a hard shutdown because it
> would not respond at all. I would always end up rebooting it to get a
> "fresh" desktop, and then it seemed to take forever. I think the last
> time I turned my Linux computer off was three weeks ago and its
> performance is as crisp and sharp as it was the day I installed it.
>
> Mine?
>
> 06:38:44 up 201 days, 17:00
>
> And its performance is as crisp and sharp as it was the day I booted it.
> Not bad for "slopware".
They use the trolls' term :-)
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~~ Best of wishes
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