or ‘How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love (well, at least not hate) XP’
Monday 12 June 2006
by Carl Bateman
I hate M$, really hate it, hate it with a passion. I would dearly love to use Linux for many reasons, because it’s Open Source, to play with all those lovely toys I’ve read so much about (programming tools, OpenGL, etc.), just to try it out to see what all the fuss is about, to bask in the Nirvana that is Linux, because it’s not M$.
From time to time I try to install Linux. Over the last three or four years I’ve made about ten attempts on two different desktop (...)
Could you maybe give some more info about your system and what exactly went wrong and/or file that info here: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubunt... (you’ll probably need to register an account on launchpad for that)? (If you already did that: thanks!)
Another anecdotal story: “I just bought a new laptop”.
The installer CD for the last desktop-OS from Microsoft crashes when you try to use it on this laptop and gives no solution for this problem. Help on how to fix this problem is buried several levels deep in the Microsoft website, and solving it requires you to understand how to master a new installer CD yourself. The only really clear documentation on that I did found on some external site.
The Ubuntu installer works perfectly fine though. And *all* the hardware in it works out-of-the-box, except for the cardreader, which is already known to work out-of-the-box in the next version of Ubuntu (to be released in October, so before the next version of Windows will be released).
Maybe I should write an article "The hell that is Windows" now?
