On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Jim Dibb<jimdibb@gmail.com> wrote:
I just wanted to comment that installing Windows 7 is a significantly improved experience and its relative difficulty is probably not a selling point for Linux.
It is still a far cry from being able to use a Live CD and verify that the entire system will work perfectly before committing to an installation. Also, what I like to call the ``post-install blues'' have not yet been addressed in Windows: i.e., installing a sane browser, office software, etc. etc.
Linux has plenty of other selling points and I've installed eeebuntu- NBR 3.01 on my wife's netbook, and it works really well but not perfectly. The installation was not foolproof though ( because a certain fool botched it without realizing it for about 2 months.) And some of the settings (acpi, for example) still need to modified in a text editor.
A well-flogged dead horse of a point: at least when things don't work you can find out why and where and fix them by hand as opposed to not at all.
Windows 7 on my quad core is not perfect either, (native backup is problematic, and something's keeping native DVD burning from working) but it also works really well.
There are draconian restrictions on DVD codecs that may or may not have an impact on Windows's ability to do things right. Linux generally lets you do these things in a technically illegal manner depending on where you are and where the person writing the open-source codecs is. The new-fangled DRM-enabled hardware these days may also have something to do with it.
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Sean Flynn <sflynn@flynnsplaza.com> wrote:
I was wondering about why the original poster wanted to buy a system with FreeBSD/Linux installed by the manufacturer. Was the intent to support a freebsd/Linux friendly vendor, or was it to make everything easier.
If possible I like to support Linux friendly vendor. But I can easily say that installing Linux is incredibly easy, especially when compared to installing windows, I don't know if you can justify extra cost just to support a Linux friendly vendor. _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
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