Mike McMullin wrote 13 June 2004 21:50 <Snip>
Many non-fanatics say that as well. Especially those of us who have used Windows over the years, since 3.11 for myself. I made the mistake ONCE and only once of letting a neighbour kid do an install of a MicroSoft game (Age of Empires if I recall correctly) on my main system, it went down for a reboot (you can tell it's written by MS when it does that), I had the kid eject the cd, for simple virus security reasons, and that trashed my WinME forcing a bare bones install. Fortunately I keep the important data on a separate partition.
My first golden rule - no games anywhere near my work system. I keep it stable by not messing with it. The same is a requirement for Linux, and I was not, I repeat yet again, advocating that it should be possible for a 6 year old to install on any OS. I was trying to pre-empt an argument I have seen so many times which goes along the lines of 'Linux is better than XP, even my 6-year old can use it and s/he thinks so too'. Damon