Mandrake disappointment 1757
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:58:27 -0700, Snit
I'm not as down on XP as some posters here. It's okay, or has been for me, but it's not nearly as interesting, I find. Even when it's 'better' than Linux, I find I like Linux more than XP. Also, I feel less worried about chickening somehting up in Linux, because i know it can usually be fixed. Whereas, if I bugger my install of Xp, I'm up poo creek with a leaky boat and no paddle, since i bought it pre-installed, with only a recovery disk supplied. This isn't much use to me, since all it will do is restore the PC to its factory state, which is nothing like its current state.
For many users XP is just impossible to use - if nothing else the malware and the fear of malware cripples the experience. I...
Could you not borrow a friend's PC? Or perhaps that of an intrepid student? modest-specced PCs are not vastly expensive, and they'll run Linux all right - he machine I post from is only a P3, 650mhz, 32 meg video, 256 meg memory Dell jobbie, and it copes okay with most general tasks - less well with video and 3D stuff but that's down to my set-up as much as anything, needs a bit of tweaking.
It's really no more difficult than XP, which many of them, presumably most, will be familiar with. It's merely a little different. Multiple desktops will blow them away, IMO.
-- Kier
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