Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 06, 2004 12:12 PM
You are so right. Installing almost any Linux is a lot easier than installing Windows, and a lot faster. windows 2000/XP is years behind on drivers. I have to support both winderz and linux, and believe me the day I can retire all the windows boxes is the day I attain complete happiness. Not only does a windows install take twice as long, it is completely not customizable. It doesn't even scratch the surface of all the available packages that come with Linux, everything is an add-on.
I can install Linux on practically anything- the latest greatest Athlon or Intel, all the way back to a 386. (The 386 needs some careful package selection, but it works fine.) Just try that with windows- you better have some 3.1 disks hanging around.
Adding to the pain is window's insane EULA and inconsistencies between the exact same versions of windows. You better have the exact disk you installed from with each machine, or you won't be able to make repairs or add or remove optional windows components, such few as there are. If you have the misfortune of owning er licensing an OEM winduhs, you won't even have a real Windows disk, just one of those crappy "restore" disks.
Oh I won't bore you with all the other disadvantages of winblahs, you know them already. Let's just quit even trying to compare Linux with Windows, because Windows loses by a mile every time.
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Re:Installing windows
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 06, 2004 12:12 PMI can install Linux on practically anything- the latest greatest Athlon or Intel, all the way back to a 386. (The 386 needs some careful package selection, but it works fine.) Just try that with windows- you better have some 3.1 disks hanging around.
Adding to the pain is window's insane EULA and inconsistencies between the exact same versions of windows. You better have the exact disk you installed from with each machine, or you won't be able to make repairs or add or remove optional windows components, such few as there are. If you have the misfortune of owning er licensing an OEM winduhs, you won't even have a real Windows disk, just one of those crappy "restore" disks.
Oh I won't bore you with all the other disadvantages of winblahs, you know them already. Let's just quit even trying to compare Linux with Windows, because Windows loses by a mile every time.
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