Mark Filipak wrote:
On 2013/2/27 6:53 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:Mark Filipak wrote:On 2013/2/27 6:34 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:Mark Filipak wrote:On 2013/2/27 5:32 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:On Tuesday 26 February 2013 21:35:18 Mark Filipak wrote:An OS that is difficult to install is not a friendly OS. People understandthis.I find Debian GNU/Linux significantly easier to install than Windows.What a nonsensical statement. I've never successfully installed any distribution of Linux.And theaverage man in the street does not install his own OS, whatever that OS maybe.what? That's absurd. The only people I know who have their OS installed at a shop are Apple users.When's the last time you bought a laptop? It's pretty hard to buy a computer that doesn't have either Windows or MacOS pre-installed; and if you do, you have to go out of your way to find an install disk.Miles. You're being a little parochial. Why do you assume I'm talking about laptops?First off... stop this bs of sending replies personally (or sending dups to both the list and me).Why do you keep sending me messages that contain both email addresses? You are CC'ing the list, not me.Second... ok... go into a Best Buy, or a Staples, or an Apple Store, or a Microcenter, or order online from Dell... if you order a desktop machine or a laptop, or a tablet, or a smart phone, it's going to come w/ an O/S pre-installed. For that matter, an awful lot of rack-mount servers come with an o/s pre-installed.Where have you been?I build computers.
That might explain your problems with Linux. Have you ever tried installing it on a stock, out-of-the-box, mainstream computer? If you're trying to install it on some funny collection of hardware, yeah... you're going to run into problems of missing drivers and so forth.
AND PLEASE STOP HITTING REPLY ALL - I DON'T NEED TWO COPIES OF EVERY ONE OF YOUR POSTINGS - REPLY TO THE LIST, ONLY
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