HELP WINDOWS XP
Doug Pollard
dougpol1 at verizon.net
Wed Aug 6 14:36:12 UTC 2008
Rashkae wrote:
> Chris wrote:
>
> There's so much bad advise and sweeping generalizations in this e-mail,
> I don't even know where to begin refuting it. I'll try
>
>
>> People should not be dual booting to begin with. If you are going to
>> commit to ANY Unix, then do it. If you don't know if you want to run
>> any Unix - run a friggen Live CD for Christ sakes.
>>
>
> OH sure, because a live cd will *really* give you all the performance
> and choice of applications for a full and fun Linux experience </sarcasm>
>
>
>> There has been far too much whining about how users can't boot or run
>> XP after an install to dual boot.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Define too much? I think the Ubuntu installer does a pretty damn good
> job of just working, and help on the list (or from a local Lug) can get
> the corner cases. Someone having a glitch and wanting help is not whining.
>
> Additionally, with the low cost of PC's these day, and with the advent
>
>> of apps like VMWare and V-Box, there isn't a reason to dual boot.
>>
>>
>
> *cough* games, not to mention hardware support when needed.
>
>
>> To you that are raggin about not booting XP - STAY with XP.
>>
>> ... Don't bother to argue this point with me. It's my opinion. Yours
>> certainly does not matter to me nor will it convince me otherwise.
>>
>>
>
>
> In concludion, *my* opinion is to STFU. thank you.
>
>
I think I know someting about dual booting or I know nothing about
it. I have had at least three different dual boot systems over the last
couple of years. I am doing video and some of quit large. I have done
it in xp because I have Premeire that works very well. I really don't
nor can I afford a legal copy. I don't like using it that way. I want
to use cinelerra. I have taken ubuntu out a several times to make room
for the video. Each time I have had to wipe the drives clean and
reinstall xp. in most cases Ubuntu was all screwed up and I had not been
able to fix the problems. At some point I wind up with the whole ting
more or less corrupted. This is my problem and not linuxes, a lot of it
is because at 74 years old learning is terribly slow. At some point
those trying on line to help me get to a point where they start telling
me to read and learn about using linux and seem to feel I am wasting
their time because I am too lazy to put in the learning effort. I
understand too.
I have a lot going on and finally get to feeling guilty about
spending so much time fooling with linux.
I took out xp because I found myself falling back on it as the easy
solution every time I had a problem in linux. That says something about
xp verses linux maybe. This I figured kept me from learning ubuntu.
I recently could not get kino to import video from my camcorder so
used Sudo to open Kino and import video. It saved to root somehow. I
put the file in my user account and now I am getting error messages. I
guess I should not have done that.
I need to get the video done so I will likely have to go back to Xp
to use Premeire to make my video.
So anyway I understand this fellow wanting to remove ubuntu. If you
are using it unsuccessfully you need to get it out of the way so you can
get your work done. If I have to take it out again I will be very
reluctant to reinstall it and will likely play with it off a dvd instead.
I think linux would do well to provide an easy way to erase the
program so some would be less reluctant to install it. I have heard
several people say they installed it and had a heck of a time getting
rid of it.
For myself and not for others I am more and more thinking of
ubuntu as a fun puzzle that I have not been able to use for anything
but e-mail and writing articles.
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