I hate windows but i keep on comming back

Frederic Soulier frederic at wallaby.uklinux.net
Wed Jun 29 16:45:25 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 12:20 -0400, Sean C Sieger wrote:
> Frederic Soulier <frederic at wallaby.uklinux.net> writes:
> > but on a laptop, Windows is way ahead.
> >
> Of what? I have an identical pair of new model laptops, one running xp home and one running ubuntu 5.04 and with a _little_ work my one with ubuntu is way ahead of the one with xp.

Ok first I'm not trying to troll in any way. I meant in terms of buying
a laptop and using it straight away.

- What is a new model laptop for you?

- Have you bought these laptops based on their features or based on
hardware specs that is *potentially* well supported, like a Thinkpad?

- What constitute "a _little_" work for you?


> 
> My wife regularly leans over to me and asks what the current error message means. I read it. But I am done googling those error messages. Ahead? The hard drive with xp never seems to stop kicking -- if that's what keeps it ahead -- I'll s keep my GNU/Linux.

I never said Windows on a laptop was perfect ;) but for that matter
Ubuntu and linux distro in general are not perfect either... Sorry.

-- 
Frederic Soulier <frederic at wallaby.uklinux.net>





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