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 (...)
I’m very happy for your success, but I don’t recall writing about your experiences. As I state in the article, the success of others doesn’t help me in the slightest.
Nowhere in the article do I claim that I lost data. Installation screwed up my partitions, which I had to recover myself after much effort. Recovery tools included as part of the installation would be a very good idea. Installation software that didn’t screw up the partitions would be an even better idea.
Yes, I would expect the "Erase my disk" option to do just that, that’s probably why I didn’t select it and that might be why I was pissed off when it did anyway.
