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On 31/07/15 11:03, John Rumm wrote:
On 7/30/2015 12:48 AM, Davey wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 00:00:17 +0100
David Lang wrote:

On 29/07/2015 23:55, Davey wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 23:41:34 +0100
David Lang wrote:

I only use the Win7 when I want to run the one programme that I
can't get to run on Ubuntu otherwise I would delete it to get the
extra space. If you happen to have a Humax PVR, you already have a
Linux machine.

Thank you, but I didn't understand a word of that :-)



Oh well, I tried. It's not that difficult, surely?


Hereby demonstrating one of the big difficulties with linux - the
users... while there are plenty of very helpful ones out there, there
are some that have difficulty relating to folks that don't dig
technology in the way they do.


As I said, download and burn the DVD, stick it in the drive and boot.

The *only* reason most naive users run windows is that it comes
pre-installed.

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