"Reasons to stick with Windows Vista and avoid Ubuntu"

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On 22/08/07, Richard A. Johnson <nixternal at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 21 August 2007, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> | Seen in the blogosphere today:
> |
> | "Reasons to stick with Windows Vista and avoid Ubuntu"
> |
> http://vista.blorge.com/2007/08/21/reasons-to-stick-with-windows-vista-and-
> |avoid-ubuntu/
>
> You sure know how to make ones blood boil early in the morning :)
>
> This same guy did a horrible review of Ubuntu not even a month back as
> well.
> If I remember correctly, he was chewed up in the comments about it. If he
> is
> installing Vista in 30 minutes, he has streamlined the CD. To verify this,
> I
> called both Circuit City and Best Buy and told them I was interested in
> having Vista installed on the new drive. Best Buy came in with the best
> turn
> around time of 4 hours. I asked why so long. Of course there is a wait as
> I
> could very well not be the first in line. He then explained it would take
> anywhere from 45 minutes on a super fast machine up to 2 hours for one
> that
> is not so fast. And then after that, they have to defrag your machine.
> Once
> they defrag the machine they run a basic test and if it passes it is good
> to
> go. Circuit city as 2 to 4 hours longer but roughly the same process, I
> would
> just have to wait in line so-to-speak.


Thats a little long, I just finished an install on a  2ghz with 3gig of ram
and it took about 45-60 mins.




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