Well, Windows is back on the disk.

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Charles E "RIck" Taylor IV wrote:

>On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 11:32 +1100, Sasha Tsykin wrote:
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>>How many times have you heard of windows not working?
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>Is that a trick question? :)
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>> I agree that 
>>Ubuntu is not a finished product yet. While I have been distributing it 
>>to all the various computer-illiterate members of my family, that is 
>>only for e-mail and internet. I wouldn't want them to be using it for 
>>anything more complicated because they don't know how to fix it if 
>>something goes wrond and I can't be bothered to do it fr them.
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>For computer-illiterate folks, Windows XP really isn't much better.
>They don't know how to fix it, and you'll still have to fix it for them.
>Though they will be a lot more vulnerable to spyware and viruses with a
>Windows XP box.  [Insert story here about co-worker who plugged up his
>new cable modem and was hit bad enough within about half an hour of
>being online that he ended up reinstalling his Windows machine.]
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>I'm not saying that Ubuntu has no problems - it does.  Windows just has
>*different* problems.  (I've had trouble with printing under XP and
>Ubuntu, actually.  The difference is that the Ubuntu problem was fixable
>- and is gone.  The XP problem is intermittent and I'll be d*mned if I
>can figure it out.)
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>>That does 
>>not mean it is better in every respect. In the area of ease-of-use and 
>>ease-of-setup, Ubuntu, and every other linux, is miles behing Windows. 
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>Ease of *setup*?  Windows comes *pre-installed* on many machines.  The
>hell of setting up Windows XP has been gone through by the
>manufacturer. :)
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>This is why most folks use Windows.  It's what was on the box when they
>bought it - they didn't seek it out.
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>>Please don't get emotional about this, because windows xp does do some 
>>thing better, fact.
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>Right.  And my HP 200LX (running DOS, of all things) does some things
>better than either my Windows XP desktop at work or my Linux laptop.  
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>>That means compare modern linuxes to windows 
>>xp, because, hears some news for you, very few people actually stil use 
>>98.
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>You would be surprised at the number of people out there still using
>98/Me.  But that's beside the point.
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To save myself from getting too involved, I will merely agree; Windows 
98 and Me are still used on a *very* large number of computers, and 
specialised drivers are often required (and put on the copy of the CD 
that whoever used to install it in the first place).