HELP WINDOWS XP

[Doug Pollard]

Pastor JW wrote:
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>>     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.
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> So, how does one uninstall windoze?  Other than using a decent virus killer 
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I don't know but since Xp has 99 percent of the market it does not 
matter much to them one way or the other. We would like to see more 
people using Linux and it would seem to me a good thing to make it easy 
to try it and if it doesn't suit they could jump out easy  and get back 
in again.
     Someone said its not the job of the Linux or windows to provide a 
way delete the program.  I'd say if you are the underdog as we are in 
Linux it's our job to provide anything needed to bring the troops over 
to our camp.  Microsoft and Mac can be smug but if we are on the ball 
they won't know what hit them till their heads roll off.
    Using Linux is kind of like going to the barber shop If you keep 
going sooner or later you will get a haircut.  My first encounter seemed 
a complete waste of time and yet there was something and not just free, 
some of it was a sense of community and also the feel that if I mange to 
pull off it's use.   I would be several steps ahead of most people I 
know and will no longer be a servant of the whimms of one or two Giant 
software companies. 
    In this sense I think it important that Linux go a step farther than 
Microsoft or Mac in giving everyone a free easy and safe way to get a 
taste  Linux that is with in the scope of spoon fed Widows users.
 The only thing I see that Linus has going against it is that most of us 
are so dog gone defensive when talking to people who may have tried 
Linux and for one reason or another went back to windows. These are the 
people we should be sweet talking, after all they came over even if for 
only a few minutes and there is likely to be some reason  We should 
instead be trying to convince them as to how they can use Linux to their 
advantage. There is sure as heck no other reason for them to want to use 
it !!
    I fuss on this Linux list from time to time  and threaten to quite 
and go back to some easier solution and I should think we should all 
admit that windows is an easier road to follow but it leads to no place 
accept buying a new version next year or being told what you can or 
cannot do.   I fuss at my family some at family reunions as well but I 
keep going.
                                                                        
        Doug