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Re: [opensuse] Why Red Hat will go bust because of Ubuntu
  • From: Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 16:54:37 +0200
  • Message-id: <eat2nd$3qc$2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
jdd wrote:

> SOTL a écrit :
>
>> Quality in the commercial world is being able for an idiot to install
>> the product and make it work.
>
> I think you forget that Windows come installed _with the
> computer_ without anything to do with the user.
>
> installing W$ in a home made computer is often a much more
> tedious task than Linux

I quite agree, having just been through it. It was mostly an exercise
in stress-control.
A friend of mine recently upgraded his motherboard in his Windows
machine, a perfectly simple operation. Yet he ended up having to
reinstall as his Windows system refused to boot from the new board (did
not recognise the disk controller).



/Per Jessen, Zürich


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