Re: Windows Is A Great OS ... If Your Time Is Worth Nothing

On Sat, 2/22/2025 3:00 PM, Mark Lloyd wrote:

On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:21:06 -0500, Joel wrote:
 

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>

“Dozens of things you can do to clean up a fresh install of Windows 11
24H2 and Edge”
<https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/what-i-do-to-clean-up-a-clean-

install-of-windows-11-23h2-and-edge/>.

>
Got nothing better to do over the next week? Why not spend the next
chunk of your life on a fresh Dimdows install!

>
>
I'm grateful for Linux.

 
Yes, I find Linux faster and easier to install than Windows (and it's not
just the assume-you're-a-thief codes).
 

But your background determines whether you will have an easy time of
it or not. I had fifteen years of Unix, so at least the concepts
weren't strange when I saw them. There is still a /etc/fstab
and a /etc/mtab and even the df (diskfree) and the ls (Listdir)
we had in Unix.

People who have used Windows, and never adjusted a thing on their
computer while doing so, those are not going to be good candidates
for a transition. Just getting the USB stick prepared, that's
going to be an ordeal.

A few people don't know what a USB stick is :-) There is no bottom
to this barrel. It's going to be a bottomless barrel of fun, to
move the Windows refugees onto something else. Hours of labor to save
one drowning soul. Times 400,000,000 or so.

I've run into people, despite my instructing them on entering
the BIOS or using the popup boot, they can't get their OEM computer
to boot from a USB stick.

Like, if someone names an arbitrary video card (let us pick the
FX5200 as an example), how would that affect my Linux experience ?
Can I install ? What distro is that ? What distro is friendly to
arbitrary video cards (my 7900GT which should have worked but the
graphics crashed on boot stick) ? How much RAM will I need ?
Already, we're wading in the deep end, without a swim lesson.
Sometimes, I find I really do need 3GB to get a distro to boot,
other times a sample distro uses a lot less memory. If someone
asks me to explain that, I'll be waving my arms around like
a windmill.

   Paul