HELP WINDOWS XP

[Karl Larsen]

Doug Pollard wrote:
> 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 
>> that is.  
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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 
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    I believe an individual can choose to try Linux and then for any 
host of reasons decide to go back to Windows. This is no loss. That 
person is a Windows person :-)

Karl


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