On 31/07/15 11:27, Davey wrote:
On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 11:03:19 +0100
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.



Here, the OP implies that he has no idea what is meant by "Insert DVD,
follow instructions". This makes me wonder how he would Backup his
Windows, or even worse, how he would Restore it from a total HDD
failure. That is difficult enough as it is, even for a computer-savvy
operator (the last time I tried, I was told that the Backup, although
made by the Update process itself, had an error, which was unspecified).

I mentioned earlier about the Linux fanatics, and yes they are out
there, and I'm not one of them. I have said that I keep Windows as
there is one programme that I need it for. But I also love the ease and
simplicity of updates with Linux, none of the huge time-consuming
sessions while Redmond downloads another load of Patches and fixes.
Linux updates take a few minutes, and installing from scratchmaybe half
an hour. The last time I installed Windows anywhere, it took about e
hours, after several update/reboot/update/reboot etc sessions.

The curious thing is that these w9ndows fanbois are using exactly the
arguments I used against linux when I ran win98 on my desktop.

10 years later, linux has now advanced to the stage where those
arguments are simply outdated.


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