re: Re-install Windows 98 ["upgrade" disk]
Sunday, August 16, 2009 at 10:41 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
Steve wrote:
|I know Linux is free, but he asked for 98 install directions.
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He **assumed** an ancient, unsupported environment with zero security,
produced by a corporation convicted of criminal activity, was his only choice
--or that he would have to PAY for something else and deal with licencing nonsense.
All those assumptions are incorrect.
...or maybe he assumed that Linux was a stripped-down environment
that comes with no really useable applications (the way Windoze comes)
and that he would have to then make an effort to get real apps.
That is also incorrect.
Linux is chalked-full of useful apps that can use his old data files.
|Any one who has to post how to install a operating system
|won't be able to figureout how to use linux anyway.
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...because it's so difficult to:
Put the Linux CD in the drive
Boot to it
Click on the icons on the destop that appears
(because you can use Linux WITHOUT installing it).
It's especially difficult to click on the Install Linux icon on the desktop
when you realize Linux is even easier than Windoze.
You don't even have to download Linux and burn it to your own CD any more.
Your local Linux Users Group has a stack of CDs they hand out like candy.
Your local newsstand has Linux magazines that contain a Linux disk.
DistroWatch.com's front page has places that will mail you a Linux CD
for $2 - $5 typically.
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