Re: XP license to 2nd computer legal?

Mxsmanic wrote:

Haggard@xxxxxxxxx writes:


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.


I tried it. It was terrible. It was on a test system, since I had no
intention of removing Windows from a production machine. When I could
not even get it to install, I gave up. I still have the box
somewhere.


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.


All of the above would be Greek to the average computer user.


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.


If it looks like Windows, it's not different. And if you make
everything look like Windows, why not actually run Windows?


Well, there's at least one, rather obvious, answer to that question if it really did look and work exactly like Windows... and is FREE.

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