Windowless world.

[Conrad Knauer]

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Johnneylee Rollins
<johnneylee.rollins at gmail.com> wrote:

> So, it came to my attention today as I spent over six
> hours fighting with windows that it's simply not worth it.

*grin*

The other week I helped a woman whose son had worked all summer to
save up enough for a notebook, only to have it stop working after 6
weeks.  I had Ubuntu all nicely preloaded based on her saying that her
son only used the computer for Facebook, but when I got there I found
out that he also used it for iTunes... (and it has issues in Wine:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=1347)
 Ah well, it has a Windows key sticker, so I set it up to dual boot
with XP and left after it started doing the Windows updates
(apparently ~95 the first batch and then she started another 40 more
after a reboot the next morning 8-)

Got a call a couple days later... after the final batch had installed,
the system needed a reboot, so she did that... and then it got stuck
in an infinite reboot loop!  Fortunately Ubuntu still works fine, so
they're using that.  When I go over to fix the Windows issue I will
just cage XP in Virtualbox ;)

CK