re: Need help: Configure for DSL, Ethernet Card, Mystery IP.
Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
gewg wrote:
||The fact that ALL versions of Windoze STILL need band-aids applied
||is what has me shaking my head.
Arminius wrote:
|Oh come on...as though linux never has problems which need to be fixed.
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For what 95 percent of folks need, the defaults work fine--just like Windoze
EXCEPT that Linux **comes** with a collection of REAL apps.
...and Linux forums very much like this one exist for the problems.
What I was addressing by "band-aids" was the need to STILL run an anti-virus app
with ANY form of Windoze. Just ridiculous.
That's the mark of an OS that is Defective By Design.
|The idea of recommending Win2000 is general familiarity with the OS.
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Yeah. It's not the worst idea I've ever heard.
...though point & click GUIs are really commodity items here in 2009.
|Most people who post their problems here
|would have a lot of trouble trying to figure out linux.
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1) Put the Linux CD in your drive.
2) Boot to it.
3) Click the desktop icons.
Point to the difficult part.
Linux should work for you out of the box (e.g. no chasing down device drivers;
no reboot, reboot, reboot, reboot, reboot, reboot to get things working).
If Linux works for you: great.
If it doesn't: no harm, no foul, no cost...and you can always try another distro.
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