Re: XP license to 2nd computer legal?

On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:50:34 GMT, "Ed Medlin" <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


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On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 14:30:45 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Jim writes:

What about the Linux distribution that you have detailed experience
with?

I haven't played with Linux in several years. It refused to install
when I tried it, so I gave up.

You haven't used Linux in years. Yet you attempt to speak with
authority. I had a feeling you were an M$ shill. Goodbye.

This is the exact attitude that turns folks away from Linux.

Don't get me wrong. I could care less if someone is using Linux or DOS
or MAC or W2K or XP or whatever. Whatever works for them, great. (Note
that there's others in this thread who don't like Linux and it doesn't
bother me.) What I object to is people like this who slam something
they've never tried. And if he hasn't tried Linux in several years,
then he hasn't tried it because it's changed so much.

At least I've experimented with W95 and W98 and W2K and XP and IE and
Outlook. This guy is not interested in discussing things, he's only
interested in being right and thought of as a guru. I have no time to
waste on him.

My main system
consists of Suse and Win XP.

I have the licence to legally install XP on this laptop. I chose not
to.

Linux is a hobby for me,
period.

It was for me too. I'd been farting around with it since Suse 9.0
(using W98 on my main machine). However, the writing is on the wall
and there's getting to be less and less hardware for it. So it was
time to make a switch. MS was out. MAC was out (too pricey).That left
Linux. Checking the Distribution websites and reading the appropriate
NG's I settled on Suse.

I have been messing around with it for many years. I just installed
64bit Suse 10.1 Final yesterday afternoon and it is buggier than any new
version of Windows has ever been, but it worked. One interesting thing I saw
on first boot is a "Found new hardware" popup for my Gigabit ethernet card
and my HP printer, just like Windows it installed the drivers and they
worked.

As far as I can see everything on this laptop (Toshiba Satellite Pro
6000) has been detected, including the modem and wireless (neither of
which I've had a need to test). Sound worked off the bat, video,
Ethernet. It was useable immediately. I just had to 'customize' it.
Geeze but I love the improvments they made to USB hot-plugging since
9.3. Plug in a thumbdrive, use it, pop it out when done. No manually
unmounting them anymore. And no more updating the virus scanner,
AdAware, Spybot and so on.

It has a nice GUI and looks a lot like Windows right down to the My
Computer icon.

KDE and Konqueror for a file manager, Mozilla and Mozilla Mail. I've
deliberately set the screen up to look like WIndows so it doesn't
scare off anyone who wants to try something different.

Nothing is perfect, and for the
average Joe Blow down the street Linux is not an option for him. Even YOU
would have to admit that.

Go back in the thread. I already have. People have asked me what I
recommend. If they just want to do the standard stuff with it but
don't know the difference between a MB and GB I tell them to have the
dealer install XP and then go back to them with problems. Otherwise I
tell them to go with whatever is required by the software they *need*
to run. Hardly an elitest attitude, I think.

I like to tinker, and even at 56yrs old, I like to
learn something new everyday.

I'm 58 and surely if *I* can figure things out these young bucks can.
:)

.

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