Re: little snippit from the UK via The Register

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:43:30 -0500, RnR wrote:

Well I won't do this but I will definitely opt for it when I need
another dell. I wish last year when I got several dells, they had
this option tho I'm satisfied with xp.

I am satisfied with XP also, however part of the reason is that I have
gotten used to its falts. As a fairly intermediate user, I know how
to fix problems that come up, unlike the average PC user.

Examples:

- A process hijacks the PCs performance. AOL has done this in the
past, as well as a Kensington USB bluetooth driver. I know which
processes I can end.

- I receive archaic error messages that don't really indicate what is
going on when installing Windows Updates. Yesterday or the day
before, for some reason, the MSI.dll said that a location in memory
(hex 0) wasn't readable. Because I know that "msi" is probably
related to the Microsoft Installer, I just downloaded that and
reinstalled it which fixed the problem.

Those are just a few examples. I don't know ... maybe Vista will
improve this situation in the long run?

I do wonder if the Mac OS is more stable and therefore more suitable
for a certain class of users that do not need software that runs only
on Windows. I might have learned the newer Mac OS's more, but I just
could never take seriously that the mouses and trackpads for the Mac
OS did not have "right click" buttons. Also a computer built to look
like a lamp or a glass cube? -- give me a break.

As far a Linux, I would expect a lot of problems with that. One of
the reasons I am probably going to play with it (Dell offered or not)
is that I would like to know the Linux basics such as how to install
programs and that kind of thing. I felt as much like a fish out of
water the last time I played with Linux as the average PC user
probably does with Windows.
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